Breakfast at KDS

This morning Stevie Kidd took time out of his busy schedule to invest in a breakfast meeting with part of his training team. We were invited last night out of the blue. We discussed the future of the group, where we saw the training team in 5 months time, areas that we would improve and change, listening to our ideas, and reflecting upon how far the team has come from academy 1 to academy 22. We are now more focussed, organised and the structure is in place to allow the format to grow as the company grows. Stevie talked about how he sees the training team like a football team underscoring the necessity to communicate daily to understand each other’s roles and each other’s key positions within the team. He challenged us to be vocal to bring ideas to the table, and help communicate his values to new members of the team, more increasingly as the team grows and develops.

We felt that being offsite and having the meeting round the breakfast table in a different location immediately put us in a different state of mind, which allowed us to be more relaxed, more forthcoming and felt less in a planning and structured meeting, more a creative state.

What is amazing about working as part of KDS training is that the managing director will take time to speak to his employees not simply through the operational structure but will take time individually to talk about his vision, our feelings and motivate us to keep doing the good job we are doing.  Stevie commented that if leaders of business in other areas took time with their people at all levels of their organisation then they would move forward as more of a team than trying to cascade a vision from the top down.

This type of opportunity to engage with Stevie Kidd comes naturally to us and it is easy to forget how different most other organisations are who don’t listen to their staff, who don’t focus on each individual and whose leaders don’t take time in this way. This is unique, it is a standard of excellence.

Thank you Stevie.

Posted by Michelle Lockard on 30 April 2010 in : KDS Training, KDS Youth Training, Personal Enhancement, Training corporate, Training employability

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