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How to Get Buy-In for NEW IDEAS
Write-ins comments from participants from our October 2009 class

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 tactics are all doable and make complete sense. I already have ideas that I can use.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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 opened up many new ideas as well as reinforcing old ones....it was of absolute value to me and I loved every minute.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Thank you for a great webinar. We learned a great deal and enjoyed the process you utilized. Your presentation of the 10 rules for innovation and 5 critical success points was very helpful for our upcoming work to improve our schools.

OVERALL RATING by Participants = Very Valuable (1.5)
(Scale: Very Valuable = 1.0 – 1.9; Valuable = 2.0 to 2.9)



Single most useful thought/actionable idea you are taking home with you is... Why is this important to you?

• Find sponsorship and build trust. And most importantly hold the trust within YOU!
  
  
• It taught me that the invaluable 10 basic rules and 5 critical success points must be put together and worked in tandem.
  
  
• Using the small steps increases the reversibility capability. In government, things are slow to move until proof is there things can be successful.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Can use this information as a goal outline / checklist; a well-defined and written goal is the start to success.
  
  
• I need these two elements to accompany me going through the job seeking process.

Other comments, suggestions

• Will highly recommend this class.
  
  
• I felt personally that this class incorporated both the analytical as well as the creative.
  
  
• Very informative webinar.