Below please find testimonials from our clients describing the impact of some of our consulting services on their businesses. The testimonials have been grouped according to the consulting service to which the client is referring in their testimonial.
“Elise is a “transformational power-house” in the area of leadership development, culture change and team-building. We have a sophisticated group of training and organizational development professionals in our central learning and development team here at USC and she “wowed” us with her ability to deftly support us in developing strategies to invent new and exciting futures for our team and the university. Her training methodology was superb, her delivery flawless and her timing excellent. She knew just the right levers to pull with our team so that everyone was engaged – and it was fun! I would highly recommend Elise for any team that is interested in taking their performance to peak levels!”
After many successful years in business, I found myself managing a team of highly motivated, successful professionals covering eight service businesses globally. My dilemma at the time was how to shift my paradigm such that I could raise my own game and lead this group of professionals to the level I could see them playing at.
Fortunately, a colleague in my firm referred Consultants Network to me. My productivity increased exponentially soon after I began working with them. I was so taken by the benefits, I enrolled my most senior managers in the program. As a result of this training, we have continued to grow and exceed our corporate objectives.
I have and will continue to recommend Consultants Network.... I have found the coaching and training a solid investment.
[They] have conducted a series of workshops over the past 5 years. Our staff has created our vision statement "Michigan College of Beauty- Igniting Lifetime Careers" which has helped to change the culture in my school.
I am very proud of the staff's accomplishments as a result of the workshops. One example is our Retention Project. We reduced our drop rate from 27% to 10%. This represents 60 additional students graduating from our school [each year].
Our organization has implemented waves of change to ensure our successful survival into the future. Part of the projected success obviously includes changes in job descriptions, downsizing, and reorganization.
...after two years of major change, we recognized the need to take action...to help rebuild our team. Each of our managers seemed to fear that he or she was next on the list to leave or retire. Trust and a sense of team were nonexistent and few viewed me as 'on their side'. Recognizing this, I engaged the services of Consultants Network.... The results have been obvious. We have been successful in opening communication...and consequently have altered the way the managers perceive themselves in their relationship with their peers, upper management, and subordinates.
I can not over emphasize the payoff for being in communication with our managers where they listen for opportunities and possibilities as opposed to no possibility. Being in communication has elevated creativity and energy and has allowed our work to be 'fun' again.
[We] began working with your company in 1996; since that time, the level of communication within every area of my company has increased greatly, making a significant difference to my business.
Through working with you, our managers have not only become better planners, but more importantly, now understand the need for them to be accountable for their commitments. I now allow my managers to do the jobs I pay them to do rather than doing it for them, allowing me to focus on my own responsibilities as a leader pursuing both short and long term goals developed by my management team.
Since working with Consultant's Network, the culture of our bank has shifted
toward one of service. They were instrumental in helping us generate an
organizing principle that fosters communication and service, both internally
and with our customers. They then designed custom programs and worked with
our senior management team to successfully implement this shift. Our
customer service surveys indicate that these programs have positively
impacted our relationships with our customers in the areas we focused. Our
bank is a different organization than when we started this work with
Consultants Network.
The Vision Into Accomplishment Workshop provided me an opportunity to clarify my vision for our company, allowed me to see and release impediments to success, and offered a structure in which I was able to develop a highly specific plan guaranteeing our future success. All of this happened in a fun and relaxed atmosphere which was very respectful of my time and which connected me with a peer support network I would otherwise never meet.
After attending the recent Vision Into Accomplishment Workshop, I was remembering my first workshop with you a few short years ago. At that time, the Foundation had received $20,000 in funding, and it was my responsibility to administer and appropriate the grants to non-profit organizations in our community. I had no mission statement, no guidelines, nor a clearly defined operating procedure for the Foundation.
To date the Fremont Bank Foundation has now made well over a million dollars in grants, to a variety of non-profits. In the year 2002 alone, the Foundation received over a million dollars in funding, a 'far cry'... from our original $20,000..... You have inspired me and told me to...get into action.
I want to thank you once again for your commitment to encouraging passionate people to develop extraordinary organizations.
Since we began working with Consultants Network, we have seen our business grow by over 300%. In addition... we have created an effective, creative and stable work environment with very little turnover in our staff. Most importantly, the focus of our work, our clients and the types of projects we do are exactly what we want to be working on.
None of this existed or was predictable when we began working with Consultants Network four years ago in the Vision Into Accomplishment workshops. We attend...as they give us a chance to stop, look at where we are, and regroup, according to our vision, much like a timeout in a football game.
I strongly recommend this program and Consultants Network to anyone who finds themselves in a place where they are doing anything less than exactly what they want to be doing.
I have worked with Consultants Network for over 5 years. In that time my
business has grown from a $150,000. home based cake operation to a $2M+
pastry manufacturer. I accomplished this inside the vision that I created
for the company from the Vision Into Accomplishment seminars. One of the
most challenging aspects of being an entrepreneur is keeping the company on
target-growing it inside of the vision and mission. Consultants Network's
exceptional coaching has helped us to create the vision and actually have it
turn out!
All things are possible until they are proved impossible -- and even the impossible may only be so as of now.
PEARL S. BUCK
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
WILL ROGERS