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The general sessions and the breakouts were well organized and contained significant substance...That would be an awesome program by itself, but you also hammered home a strong message concerning task saturation and the drain it places on an individual's performance.
Charles W. Harris
Senior Vice President-Marketing
National Health Insurance Company
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Your mission planning theory and explanation of the serious ramifications of not planning were a crucial learning experience for our 1,200 employees that attended our National Meeting.
Norm Peebles
Vice President
Nestle
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One other point. Our concerns over the Afterburner's theme being "too" macho for the women of the group turned out to be totally unfounded. All of the women in our company really got into the breakout exercises.
Mark McGraw
Manager of Sales - EMT Americas
Philips Electronic Manufacturing Technology, Americas
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I applaud your unique concepts of problem solving and performance improvement and would recommend this approach to any forward thinking organization. Certainly of equal importance however, was the effectiveness of your presentation. it was well organized, stayed right on schedule, provided logical and understandable leadership and operational tenets; all accomplished in an entertaining setting and enjoyable atmosphere.
J. Edward Cassity
Major General, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.)
SVP & Cheif Strategy Officer
Phoebe Hospital
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Without exception, everyone in attendance was delighted with your presentation and was using the terms from you motivational speech throughout the rest of the conference. That evening our conference management team acted on one of your key initiatives, "debriefing", and met at 2130. You were right—by adopting the faceless, rankless approach, we were able to get very specific about potential problems and all worked to resolve the issues.
Gil Figueroa
President and CEO
Pick Systems
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Not only did our group enjoy your high flying presentation, but found your message quite appropriate. It was apparent that you spent considerable time getting to know our company and the issues we faced in our market place. Your effort to personalize the presentation to our audience made it very meaningful to our group.
Karen Crane
Manager, Employee Recognition Programs
Pitney Bowes
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Better than 80% of the group rated your keynote program outstanding. That's an incredible response from Public Storage. And, no one rated the program less than very good. You delivered everything you promised us and more.
Les Guttman
Vice President, Marketing
Public Storage, Inc.
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The seminar was on the first day of the Conference and set the tone. It was a roaring success. We feel that Afterburner met and exceeded our expectations for both a team building and strategic planning learning experience which was thoroughly enjoyable.
W. J. Levy
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
The PQ Corporation
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...we have contracted with many consultants and dynamic presenters over the years, but let me say, your team's work, with the "mission objective" assigned, was the best I've ever personally experienced.
Ralph Russo
President & Chief Executive Officer
Sara Lee Coffee & Tea
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We have received lots of positive feedback from your dynamic interactive seminar. It was a great way to introduce our sales and marketing goals for 2003 and it provided us with many useful strategies that we continue to use on a daily basis. I was especially pleased with the amount of research you did on our company and our competition. The seminar was customized for Sony Ericsson and it presented concepts that directly apply to our business. The Mission Planning Exercise took these concepts to the next level. It was a huge hit with our sales and marketing team - everyone walked away feeling energized and motivated.
Karen H. Morris
Director, Customer Marketing
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
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Even four months later, people are still talking about Afterburner Seminars. Your portion of the meeting really had a big impact on our managers. Plan, Execute, and Debrief are terms we hear around the office now. I feel we have built a great working relationship and I look forward to our next project together.
Greg Slaight
Program Manager
Sprint
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From the minute the training started through the rest of the day, the iForce partners and Sun reps were highly engaged... We have received nothing but outstanding feedback from our reps and partners concerning the content and appropriateness of the training.
Barry Williams
Regional Director
Sun Microsystems
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The energy and enthusiasm both of you brought to your presentations was greatly appreciated and helped contribute to a very successful event overall. However, most noticeable for the audience was the professional care and attention to detail that you put into the front end planning for the presentations and the customization of the slide program to reflect our business focus and needs.
Jim Carter
President and Chief Operating Officer
Syncrude Canada Ltd.
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I must say that your seminars and workshop were the reason for the most successful event ever in our history. Those are not only my words but exact comments received from members of our sales team.
Mona Lisa Sims
Director of Sales and Marketing Programs
System One Amadeus
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After ten consecutive years of national sales meetings, we've pretty much experienced the gamete of team building events. None, however, melded so many elements as seamlessly as Afterburners while delivering key messages about focus and team.
Jodi A. Yegelwel
Senior Vice President, Marketing
TDI
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We have had various speakers and seminars over the last 20 years, but none as invigorating and as on target as yours. As you know, we have a very aggressive group of salesguys that are tough to keep involved for more than 15 minutes. You guys kept them on the edge of their seats for 4 hours.
Scott Jordan
Executive Vice President
Ted Lansing Corporation
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I am not alone in saying that you did a great job in all regards—Afterburner received the highest marks in a follow up survey to conference participants.
Tricia Bergeron
Vice President, Investor and Corporate Relations
Thomas & Betts
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You have presented us with a new problem, "how do we top your seminar"...I could go on all day, about the impact and more importantly the implementation of your presentation by our associates everyday.
James M. Hopper
Senior Vice President
Tree of Life
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The overall evaluations were some of the best ever in our fourteen-year history. We truly appreciate your contribution to this unique program! More specifically, the evaluations had a net satisfaction rating of 100 for very satisfied and 0 for very dissatisfied. Our experience has shown that ratings of 80 or higher are outstanding. Your lecture was rated 93.5.
Ann Brown
Senior Program Manager
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Well, you did it again! The impact of your presentation made a big impression on all the senior managers in our company. The effects of your work for my division last year still lingers as our professional staff use that experience in their day to day affairs.
Kenneth J. Berger
Senior Vice President
Zurich Insurance Group
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