Dear Betsy:

I am writing in follow up to the 2008 calendar of training and work group events that you facilitated for the Edwards Critical Care sales and marketing team. Under your guidance, our experience in participant-centered activities has been very rewarding. 

Your facilitation of our work groups has enabled us to re-engineer processes and tools in a more effective fashion. The construction of our annual sales training event based on the principles of adult learning resulted in our most productive training activity to date. Your expertise in designing and facilitating participant-centered group tasks is clearly world-class.
I have observed three key skills that you bring to your role as a facilitator: Your ability to assimilate strategic design criteria for a group task, engage in the task while continually monitoring group progress toward the objective, and seamlessly modifying the original plan where course correction is required. These attributes have enabled you to lead our work groups and training activities to our objectives in a very efficient path.

The Edwards Critical Care sales and marketing team is continuing to apply the training and learning principles we have learned from you, and we thank you for your valuable contributions to our continued growth and success!

I wanted to personally thank you for making our Business and Strategic Planning sessions a worthwhile endeavor for our organizations, especially relevant and indispensable for our dealership groups. Running an operation day-to-day like ours requires total commitment and concentration, yet sometimes we forget about the really important things like long-term planning and goal setting.

Your course took us from step to step through a difficult, challenging process with excellent organization and ease. Defining goals and setting the future directions of one company, much less a group of companies, is an awesome task, one I didn't think we could accomplish in just six weeks, but you made it possible and the finished products of our sessions are ones that I am proud to take to our management team and employees.

Thank you again for making all this possible, for helping us accomplish and set forth our vision, values and mission. The future has never looked brighter.
 

My thanks for an outstanding Executive Leadership course. As you know, I have been both a serious student and practitioner of leadership principles for many years. In my previous employment, I was a senior officer in the United States Armed Forces and recently retired with 30 years active service.

Your course was the best I have experienced. I was particularly impressed by the integration of professional and personal
introspective techniques. When you say "you must know yourself before you can effectively lead others", you mean it. This is something which I have not seen done in all my previous leadership training programs. Likewise, the worksheet to help the individual, as well as executive groups, work with a systematic approach to a solution was very enlightening. In this regard, I particularly appreciated the "Goal Planning Sheets".

It, of course, goes without saying none of this fine material would work without your effective ad thoughtful presentation. Your knowledge of the literature and real world experience added a real depth and texture to the presentations. In addition, your experience made our one-on-one counseling sessions a true cut above all others I have experienced.

In short, thank you for a very fine course and excellent presentation.

I engaged Betsy to transform our adult learning environment, challenge our healthcare professional training approach at the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute and assist with in-class launch planning. The results were remarkable and moved our organization to new levels and dramatically improved post-launch student satisfaction and comprehensive levels. Betsy is results-oriented, client focused and a great problem solver. She is amazing and demonstrates compelling facilitating learning and decision-making in groups. Standing out for me is how good she is at listening and helping the group stay focused on results. In addition, she was fun to work with over several months of intense design and change activities. It was my pleasure to work with Betsy to successfully launch the J&J Diabetes Institute in 2008 and seeing the subsequent significant impact of her work.” Cliff McIntosh, President, Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute August 2, 2009

“Betsy is one of the most intelligent, strategic, and insightful people I've ever met. Her brilliance, mixed with her charming personality, would be an asset to any organization lucky enough to work with her.”  Rebecca Morgan CSP, Strategic Customer Service

"I've had the opportunity to attend numerous training sessions facilitated by Betsy and each time blown away by her expertise, knowledge, and ability to impart a similar passion in others. Betsy is a true professional and someone I would highly recommend if you're looking for someone to make an immediate impact within your organization.” Kevin Condrin, Director of Training

“Betsy’s facilitation style allows you to dig deep into the issues at hand and uncover the root cause. Her questions are powerful yet her communication style is soft and comforting. She has the ability to help you find innovative solutions to your most costly business problems directly affecting the bottom line.” July 29, 2009

Scott Jessup, Owner, Whitfield Consulting, LLC.
 

“I had a pleasure of working with Betsy on the "Project Management" course she delivered for PSI in 2007. Betsy not only managed to adjust the course to the company's needs in a short time, but did an amazing job meeting the expectations of a diverse audience. She is an extremely knowledgeable professional, and a very enthusiastic trainer and facilitator, which allows her to share her knowledge with the group, and influence them into moving on and thinking outside of the box well after the course is finished. I would be thrilled to work with Betsy again, and I hope the opportunity will present itself.”

I just wanted to give you my personal feedback. I thought your facilitation of "Leadership: An Art of Possibilities" fit exactly with the direction I am leading the county, fits very well with our strategic planning process. Thanks again, enjoyed it immensely

Betsy Allen is more than a coach – she is a strategic planning partner – and a caring, objective third party. If you or your business suffers from malaise, malcontent, poor performance or you just aren’t happy in your work, I highly recommend scheduling a program with Betsy.

She has helped breathe energy, enthusiasm and crucial analysis into our company and improved our partnership. Make no mistake, it takes work and effort on our part so be prepared, but the results are rewarding and we are more excited about the future than we have been in several years. We are grateful for our renewed passion for our careers as a result of our working with Gaining Results.

Lucy Costa
President/Promotional Consultant
Promotional Incentives, Inc.