ACE designed a 2-day workshop focusing on Facilitation Skills and Strategic Team Development for a group of Inter-professional health care professionals. The content of the workbook was great and was reinforced with lots of summaries, quizzes, exercises, experiences and a range of resources. The Facilitation Skills workshop reinforced the knowledge and skills for a number of participants while some of the information and activity was relatively new for others. Strategies for encouraging participation, along with question skills and types, were particularly helpful.

Learning about High Performance Teams (including the software program that can asses team development), group decision-making, group effectiveness and preferred work preferences highlighted the need to develop a balanced team. The workbook provided multiple examples of team roles and workshop participants enjoyed fitting their preferences into the teams they were currently working in.

We asked ACE to come back and run a team building event for us because they were so fantastic the first time! We did Bingo-A-Go-Go in 2010 and Musical Trivia for 2011 and it was again a great success! The team are fantastic, fun and friendly and run their events with the same ethos. My Division loved the experience and are looking forward to doing it all again next year - thanks ACE!

Approximate cost: $2500

Team building activity - Project Apricot. Requested at short notice and very accommodating. Very constructive and energising and extremely professionally run. Will use again and would definitely recommend to others.

The folk at ACE designed and conducted a specific group activity for my teams offsite only a few weeks ago (this was the second such piece they've done for me). The purpose of our offsite was to fully engage with our plan for the remaining months and really get in the mindset for delivery - and to help the group understand all the necessary pieces to effective execution. ACE's half-day activity ("Cargo") worked perfectly and drew out some interesting insights for the group on the planning/execution challenge. A valuable undertaking that really helped steer the conversation and thinking over the following day.

We had Daniel and the team come and run Project Apricot for our wider team. The team building was highly engaging, alot of fun, and really drove home key messages around constructive working styles and achieving together. The sense of satisfaction amongst the group on completion of the task was fantastic. A very professionally run session.

ACE training have run three sessions for our team. We enjoyed the first one so much we asked them to come back and share the experience with our wider workforce (twice so far). ACE encouraged everyone to take part in a fun, professional and memorable manner, with memories in photographic print provided at the end. The organisation, mix of music and activities saw people come out of their comfort zone and truly team build in an environment that was not the typical dry training scenario. Evaluation of the sessions was instantly obvious by looking at the smiling faces, euphoria and complimentary emails from staff.

A.C.E. have helped us with a few team building events now and all have received rave reviews from our participants.

Recently with a few new management team members on board, we knew we wanted a get- to-know-you-session but we also wanted it to be fun and outdoors. At first we were thinking of some kind of camping / kayaking activity. Or perhaps a spot of golf or an amazing fishing adventure? A lot to think about and organize so we made a quick phone call to the experts at ACE. They went through all our needs and issues plus event expectations plus our hoped for outcomes. Soon after we had a comprehensive proposal on our desk: detailing prices and logistics. Portsea and Pt Nepean it was! Daniel Cohen and his partner Fiona arranged absolutely everything for us. Talk about an eye for detail. Very impressive and so professional. Our leadership team just loved getting outdoors and we all had lots of laughs together. It was a terrific occasion which really helped to bring our new team members together quickly and easily.

Just two weeks ago we held another event with ACE. This time a product launch for 60 people from all over Australia. Daniel Cohen and his partner Fiona put together the "Directors Cut" filming event plus Hollywood Academy Awards night for us. Again, to rave reviews from all participants. Two weeks after the event and I can still see the huge smiles and cheeky grins of the participants: ACE provided photos and videos as a reminder of our event - such a terrific memory. It was such a great event that everyone has asked how will we ever top that? Simple...we will work with ACE again to come up with an even greater plan!

All in all, ACE has been a great business partner for us. Talk about a creative and dynamic, great bunch of people. I love how they are so organized, responsive and totally professional. They really are setting the pace with Learning and Development, Training and Consulting in Australia.

Approximate cost: $Great value for money

Ace ran a team building/communication activity for a corporate team within the University.

We were very happy with how the activity went and I have received positive feedback about this activity from a number of the participants.

I appreciate the effort that ACE went to and I would have no hesitation in using ACE again.

First contact with A.C.E. was as part of a staff team training day to prepare us to work on a medical student transition weekend. The training provided was the best team training I have ever been part of. Working with A.C.E. over 8 years of transition weekends demonstrated their excellence to me. Daniel Cohen is an excellent facilitator and debriefer and I have tried to apply some of his techniques in my own teaching and facilitation.

More recently we engaged Daniel to design a team facilitation training program for us. He came up with some very helpful models for us to use. The feedback we got about Daniel's work from the quite large group of health executives and academics was excellent.

Icing on the cake is that Daniel and his team are some of the nicest people you will meet, honest, fun, friendly and absolutely professional.

We engaged ACE Training & Consulting in 2010 to run a music trivia challenge and team building activity for our team's off site retreat. The evening trivia challenge was very well organised, and everyone relaxed and had so much fun. At Daniel's suggestion, we ran the 'Nepean Code' for our team building activity. This proved to be perfect for our group with many staff reporting how much they enjoyed the challenge together with the beautiful location. At all times I found Daniel & his team to be most professional, helpful and patient. I would not hesitate to recommend or engage them again for other events.