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Tactics of Innovation:
How to Get Buy-In for NEW IDEAS
Sampling of Write-in Comments from Participants

The How to Get Buy-In for NEW IDEAS professional development class was valuable to me because...

• The 10 tactics and 5 success points are practical and applicable.
  
  
• The session offered valuable meta-perspective. The 10 tactics provide a plan for honest and meaningful communication focused on advancement.
  
  
• Your Professional training event was excellent! It helped me to re-focus on the importance of preparing a strategy and tactics prior to communicating and engaging others when selling one's ideas to help facilitate success and "buy in".
  
  
• Emphasized the importance of always doing excellent work to help build credibility. Made me re-think how quick and dirty work that is sometimes an output of overworked employees can be detrimental to one's credibility. Negative results caused by quick and dirty work will take longer to repair than the time one thinks they might be saving by doing sloppy, unplanned work. This makes it more difficult to get by buy-in for ideas in future. Need to think clearly how to best balance quick and dirty work and quality work and who is the audience who will see this work.
  
  
• Thank you both for an informative and enlightening webinar! You did a masterful job at presenting ideas that illuminate the dynamics of human choice and response. I was struck by your collaboration, use of image. Simple, incisive, comprehensive!
  
  
• It covered the questions I had in mind before attending the class: What makes up good new ideas and how you could sell these ideas.
  
  
• It gave me some new ideas for focusing my presentations.
  It opened up many new ideas as well as reinforcing old ones....it was of absolute value to me and I loved every minute.
  
  
• It brought my leadership team together which is a good tool in doing innovation! The tactics which were shared were good and will be a helpful common way of evaluating processes of bringing change.
  
  
• It laid out clearly how I can prepare for and execute bringing my new ideas to others in a way that will make it easier for them to get on board.
  
  
• I learned step-by-step practical information that I can use as a guideline to present my new ideas to the marketplace AND, it was presented by my hero Joel Barker and Debbe Kennedy's beautiful mind and teacher to whom we could also ask questions at the end. The survey's we took real-time were also revealing and pretty cool;
  
  
• Although I had previously watched the Tactics of Innovation DVD three times and intimately knew the 10 Tactics, I was concerned that repeating this content in the webinar might be redundant. But it was exactly the opposite as I gained a greater depth of knowledge and understanding of them, as well as new insights and potential new applications.
  
  
• This class helped me to validate many of the things that I was already doing, but help me to view from a more systematic approach. Had a great experience with this course. I had always been a great advocate for instructor led courses, but this changed my thought process and I stayed very focused the entire time. Great course and will definitely apply day to day and will not just wait for that project.
  
  
• Excellent job, by the way -- I really enjoyed it and got a lot out of it. I had already seen Joel's "Tactics of Innovation" dvd, but I gained a whole new depth of knowledge and new insights from experiencing this excellent process once again. FYI: This was the very first webinar I've ever attended! -- so thank you for opening my eyes & ears to this new learning methodology that I've been meaning to explore and experience for quite some time. As someone who does management/leadership training myself, my mind is spinning with the world of possibilities.
  
  
• The power yet simplicity of the concepts make them very appropriate for almost any situation. The Tactics worksheet is invaluable. Don't need a lot more theory. Need tools for practical application and you provided those.
  
  
• We have been around a long time --- and I wanted you to know that the class you and Joel put on was A++! We are working on a project that is quite revolutionary in education--- and what we learned yesterday from both of you was very helpful and well worth the time and investment.
  
  
• Easy to use, convenient to access.
  
  
• Very concise and simple expression of the disciplines behind with a rich set of practical cases and personal experience.
  
  
• Useful, valuable, enlightening and purposeful.
  
  
• It was really a great webinar. Thank you for doing it. Your How to Get Buy-In for NEW IDEAS training today was well worth my time.
  
  
• Engaging, interactive, thought-provoking, very nicely done. As someone who is a fan and advocate of the "Slide:ology" and "Presentation Zen" style of PowerPoint design, I really enjoyed and appreciated how well you used visual images as metaphors to support your content. This made it both informative and engaging.
  
  
• Dynamic, interesting, and easy to follow.
  
  
• Very interesting format. Well designed and executed. Enjoyed the "Wall" session.
  
  
• Concise, polished, on-target with useful, relevant information and examples.