When you bring in an outsider to help develop your team you ideally want someone who is energetic, strong in theory but more engaging in practice. John Wood and his team from Red Serious Fun & Games ticked all those boxes. His relaxed and highly effective approach helped build connections amongst our team members and left them energised and connected to tackle their daily challenges.
Mark Nicholson
Partner - Pitcher Partners
John’s approach really resonated with me. He is focused, experienced and very approachable. These qualities gave me the confidence and support I needed to successfully complete my Diploma in Leadership & Management. His practical approach was crucial to my success. Due to his support and guidance, I am now in a Managerial role and am using what I learnt on the program on a daily basis.
Due to his approachable, supportive and very knowledgeable nature, he did manage to change my view of Queenslanders, turns out, they are not that bad after all.. 😊
Stefan Eberle
Support Operations Manager – Transdev Sydney Ferries
John's approach really resonated with our project teams. He has a very relaxed yet focused presence which immediately provided a level of confidence from the audience.
A key speciality area for John is his Project Start Up and Team Alignment workshops. I have attended 3 Project Start up workshops delivered by John during his time at Watpac. With each workshop, John consistently provided the best platform to set in place the right communication tools and strategies for ensuring competing stakeholders were unified for the greater good of the project.
He is very experienced, competent and insightful when it comes to understanding individual and team dynamics and his practical application and utilisation of various psychometric tools such as DiSC really helps individuals to understand self and others better and to build trust.
If you are looking for an engaging a facilitator who is very practical and experienced, then I would highly recommend you speak to John.
Dean Amon
Construction Manager – Watpac
Combining some fun and learning about team dynamics and human behaviour is why we have engaged with John from RED - Serious Fun & Games over the last two years to run our team building days.
These are annual events where all staff take some time out for an afternoon to relax and bond with their colleagues. The events are highly engaging and great fun, but they also provide a number of great learning opportunities.
Staff need to strategize, plan, resource cleverly and harness all their individual capability into a team to complete a series of physical and mental challenges. We have found the design of the games to be seriously clever and most importantly, our employees have loved the interaction and competition.
At the end of the day, management also gets some very valuable insights from John and his teams’ observations of the team interactions. Last year we tackled an Olympic themed event and this year we took on a double challenge, Minute to Win It and then Big Picture. We can’t wait until next year!
Randall Corless
Partner – Marsh Tincknell Accountants
John runs our Diploma of Leadership & Management and has done so since July 2018. As a past student I can certainly endorse his expertise in this space. Nothing is too much trouble and if you need to get hold of him, he’s seemingly always available. His approached is relaxed yet thorough. He understands not everyone finds undertaking formal studies an easy thing and he goes above and beyond to ensure you feel completed supported to succeed.
I now have John running my Team Leader program, a shortened version of the Diploma program and once again the participants are all very impressed with his broad industry experience and solid theoretical underpinning knowledge. As he always says, theory is great in theory, but application is what wins you the game. John certainly knows how to help his students turn theory into practice.
Ray Windle
Operations Manager – Transdev Sydney Ferries
Team alignment is a key determining factor in the success of any business and here at Brady Marine & Civil we appreciate this fact as much as anyone else. As a consequence, we have engaged RED Learning & Development to assist in this critical area.
John has an approach which is friendly and focussed. He can quickly identify risks and opportunities within the team dynamics and coax team members towards practical strategies to both minimise risks and harness opportunities. His personal ability to ‘read’ a room and get people to feel comfortable quickly is probably one of his greatest strengths. And critically he has the tools and the experience to exact real change.
David Brough
General Manager – Brady Marine & Civil
John has been working with Whitehaven Coal since 2018 delivering workshops to help build team alignment, improve team communications and most recently focus our attention on Appropriate Workplace Behaviours. His approach has resonated strongly with our diverse teams as we see him as a genuine and authentic individual who workshops focus on practical and very tangible strategies rather than textbook theory. With his hands-on experience across Civil, Mining and Construction for the past 15 years John connects easily with our workforce, both above and below ground.
Scott Ginnivan
Safety and Training Superintendent – Whitehaven Coal
