Testimonials

The work you undertook for us at HMP Swinfen Hall kick started our programme of change and created a solid foundation on which to build. The images and words won the hearts and minds of staff, helping to make it a safe environment on which to build sound staff/prisoner relationships and at the same time sending  clear and positive messages to families, external agencies and the public.Working with you was inspirational for me, your vision and energy made what seemed difficult and complex, easy and fun. You made a significant contribution and I will always be grateful for that.

The work Push has done to this point has helped us gain confidence in the direction we need to go. We need input from everyone, it’s a collaborative approach - not only from within the business but people external to the business. Today’s brand strategy workshop has been absolutely priceless.

Thanks for your help with this business case proposal, it looks great. The meeting with BBC Commercial Policy was great and we passed that hurdle – I now have to meet with BBC Procurement and Editorial Policy before we go to the Head of FM&T.

Because they provide services across strategy, communication and media delivery you get the ‘full package’ from a top marketing expertise perspective.  This is invaluable in the current NFP environment in Australia. 

Additionally GDA brings ideas on how to use the latest media/technology to evidence that we are a learning organisation that delivers because we understand how to measure performance outcomes, and communicate that. With GDA Outcare have created a culture of expectation and creditability both in and outside of the business.

GDA are an organisation who genuinely want you to succeed and achieve as a customer. They bring a can-do attitude and are prepared to be patient, flexible, and bring immense added value to any business. They get you to be self-sufficient and don’t simply come in to your business, undertake work and then walk away. Their support is excellent!

It has been a real pleasure working with GDA over the years… right from that first meeting in Lowdham, achieving our drug use reduction targets . I feel that many of the great initiatives I have been involved in over the years have succeeded due to your support.

Giles was providing consulting support to assist me develop a case for a new business unit. We began by kicking my idea around a bit to enable Giles to get into my head. He conducted an analysis and asked all the right questions and in just the right way to really steer my thinking and help me to clarify what I was proposing.

When Giles talks to you he talks with you, not at you or to you, and his gentle questioning guides your thinking and allows you to form new ideas in your head. Just through conversation he takes you far beyond what you thought before and lifts your ideas to a new level. As we worked together Giles made sense of my idea. He made links to experience he has both in my industry and in the business world and gave sense to what I was thinking and a focus to where I wanted to take it. He gave my idea the eloquence and business clarity it needed.

He got into the fabric of the project and helped me shape it and change it and give it direction without losing the essence of what it was about. I’m very grateful for that. Giles found the framework and gave me the space to form the idea so it was still mine.

Giles gave me the confidence and back up I needed to create and present a winning presentation. It was all done at a distance. With the way Giles works and thinks he can be equally effective at a distance as he is face-to-face.

Working with Giles you can sense that he has an ability to address what a target audience need to hear, what they are looking for and what is attractive to them. He’s a very astute businessman and with his questions he leads you along a path, not where he wants to go, but where you need to go yourself.

He is very honest and straightforward, what you see is what you get but it’s not until you start to talk to him that you realise exactly how powerful that is.

Thanks for the team workshop last week which everyone really enjoyed. This whole process is really useful for us to help us pinpoint the best areas in which to target our limited resources.

We were very, very impressed with the newsletters, strategic documentation and loved the way you worked, thanks…

You examined the aspirations and goals of the group and developed a visionary model that defines Aboriginal land based business enterprise development within a framework of culturally appropriate decision making and behaviours.

Great work! 

GDA recognised early on in our engagement that unless we captured staff input and views and they were given a context and understanding for the organisational change, they would be resistant and this would become a major obstacle.

Having an Open Space event where the whole staff group had their say about the good, bad and all, of Outcare, enabled me as CEO to listen to them, give a message of how important their engagement is, and then drive the necessary changes through an agenda to which they co-contributed.

Having a well-developed marketing strategy which makes sense to the Board and staff, has been significant in supporting me as the CEO to drive a change which has been much needed.

We had never produced filmed media to this extent before. In our efforts to capture the benefits of AimHigher and teenage engagement with education the level of your service was exemplary and your expertise was invaluable throughout the process, making what was a new venture for our organisation a relatively simple one.

I’m on the plane back home and just read your incredible newsletter…

It’s probably the best internal employee newsletter I’ve seen because it:

• Genuinely thanks employees for their efforts in creating the success of the previous year

• Tells employees that their views count by connecting Health and Safety with a concern for individual’s well-being and by actively seeking employee views - “If you have any ideas for new ventures don’t keep them to yourself… you don’t have to have a fully formed plan or how this will work… and don’t be put off when we start to ask a few questions!”

• Shows employees how they are collectively undertaking meaningful work via stories that illustrate positive client outcomes

• Gives people a heads up around potential changes

• Shows people how they are making a difference to the local community.