Responsive Management®:
2001 Public Seminars
Participant Evaluation Summary

Comments from Participants:

1. How satisfied are you that the information provided in this seminar is relevant to the performance of your work or your organization?
Situations presented were practical and right on the money.
Hit on some issues that we are going through.
Takes the "emotional" aspect of interpersonal performances out.
Thoughtful, well organized and provocative.
Very relevant for me as someone who'd like to be evaluated -- I was looking to use the process within the organization so I kept translating the materials to other supervisions.
Interpersonal issues are very helpful.
This will be very applicable to my organization.
Good practical information.
Good job -- very pertinent.
Useful formats and useable.
Management of people is extremely important within ESA and the techniques you teach are invaluable and could really help us as an agency.
Excellent information for new supervisors.
This session was very timely given Dick's current work within my organization.

2. How satisfied are you that the information provided in this seminar is sensitive to and positively responds to the differences between people?
Yes, it's applied positively.
Seems to be wanting to help everyone.
Methods address and respect differences.  Can be used in personal relationships.
The steps are clear and can easily be broken down for use by people entering supervision.
Useful info on how to deal with people.
Excellent -- I liked the flow and organization of materials.
Information can be applied to all individuals.
We didn't talk a whole lot about diversity but I was fine with that.  I thought the session was very practical.
I appreciate sensitivity to divergence and validating asking for information.

3. How satisfied are you with your ability at this time to apply the information covered in this seminar to your work or organization?
If we use this form it will be helpful.
Excellent ideas were pinpointed and easy to follow. I'm going to use the worksheet and survey at work.
Emphasis on practice and persistence is right on!
May take some time to integrate.
Need to practice, practice, practice.
Will need to spend time reflecting.
I will use this and commit to three weeks over 1.5 years.
The information will be of use immediately.
The example I gave on performance issues were real -- therefore the information within this seminar will be helpful/useful.
Verbal presentation was clear and very good.  The diagrams are a bit complex.  I'm not sure I'd be able to interpret them properly to others.
Need practice.
Will need practice.
If management permits.
Very functional information I believe I can use.
I plan to use it right away.
With practice -- exercises were very helpful.

4. How satisfied are you that you had sufficient opportunities to participate?
Having the skills -- i.e., Domino game -- that we can participate was wonderful. It was not only to keep us alert but also help us to understand the concepts better.
Very open to questions and comments.
Very open.
Plenty -- and fun.
participation really helps understand material.
Sometimes I think I participate too much.
Giving the example of the interpersonal problem and how to give negative feedback showed me how great of an impact that issues can potentially have on the entire agency.
Well run seminar.
Very responsive to participant questions.
Nice small group participation.
Because it was a small group there was a lot of opportunities.
I like the small size of the seminar.

5. How satisfied are you that your questions were answered adequately?
Did excellent job in describing methods or approach to take.
Obviously, lots of questions and all were answered adequately.
Nicely done and in a caring way.
Your examples, illustrations, exercises allowed for good group interaction and learning from each other.
Not really a long enough seminar to delve into individual workplace issues.

6. How satisfied are you that this was a good use of your time?
Very efficient.
Will try to use aspects presented.
Will be able to apply/use quite a bit of material.
Dick, you're a tremendous communicator: very easy manner.
Although nothing new, the content was presented in a way that was helpful to me.
Good value.
Excellent day spent learning worthwhile information.
Very good use.  I appreciated the short but frequent breaks.

Other -- What other training topics would you like to have presented?
Enjoyed the seminar very much! Great tools.
More on how to manage and use these tools in an environment where much of the communication occurs over e-mail. Possibly more tools to use on difficult employees.
Staff dynamics, team building, priority setting. Thank you!
How to bring this process to my staff and organization.  I'd like to know how to develop an evaluating-up culture.
I enjoyed those portions where students participated.
Coaching is just starting to take off in state government.
[I] would be interested in discussing the possibility of a presentation tailored to supervisors in my agency.
Would like to see R2.
Employee retention, creating job satisfaction.
One day trainings are convenient.
Techniques that you can use when you are getting feedback and feeling defensive.
Teacher/interpersonal.