Comments from Workshop Participants

General Comments

I think we made more progress during this 3½ hour session than we made during the past 3 months
The session drove ruthlessly toward the intended goal.
Got 4 weeks of meetings and haggling wrapped up in 4 hours.
Jesse kept us on target to accomplish our goals within the allotted amount of time. Thank you.
This session was productive and fun.
We have had several other meetings, but there was a lot of talk and no action. During this session we set up tasks and timelines, we coordinated the tasks to the issues and assigned responsibility. Using the task list, I will be able to assign issues to the appropriate person.
This should really help in getting the issues resolved.
Best 4 hours spent all year.

Highly valuable. Jesse was very good at keeping us focused and moving forwards.
Valuable, productive use of my time. Jesse did an excellent job ensuring we met our objectives.
We needed facilitation to move forward and not get sidetracked.
An "OPEN" forum - discussion was moderated by an unbiased, intelligent problem solver & decision facilitator.
Good dialogue and noisy discussion. Jesse kept things moving, good facilitator.
This was outstanding. Jesse did a great job in facilitating and organizing the facts. He was very professional.
Having the session "facilitated" allowed the group to feel less "directed" by the traditional leaders.
The best part was having a facilitator who is not emotionally involved in the issues. Jesse was great.

It's informal and very good team building experience.
The session was an unbelievable forum to come together as a team, be open, but yet come to a consensus on goals and issues.
Open communication and discussion allowed us to come to a consensus.
It was open and gave people a safe place to speak.

Fun, interesting, valuable to align our group leaders and get ideas and plans on the table.
Helped us clarify visions and missions, distinguish the difference and set up implementation plans.
Going through these types of exercises (defining vision, mission) is much better with a third party facilitator.
Through brainstorming and teamwork the group was able to write realistic goals.

Excellent to bring out the issues at hand in order to honestly iron them out.
Did a great job of drilling down to the issues that are holding us back.
I think the process of documenting the issues and developing a plan to address them is great.

This is the most effective way to plan and execute a project of this scope. A very good session.
Very Valuable. This made running the project much easier.