Testimonials

Six years ago we implemented Outcome Thinking® training for our Supervisors in both Presentations and in Conflict Management. With your Train-the-Trainer and licensing program, we have put over 2000 Supervisors through the courses.

Our Supervisors are responsible for running meetings with their teams to drive understanding up, reduce injuries and increase efficiency and safety. We then watch the numbers to see if this is translating for them in to real results.

As we have tracked the numbers during these last few years we have found that were able to reduce our operating costs down from 81 cents to 75 cents and now we are driving to the 60 cent range. We have reduced injuries to UNDER 1% which is unheard of in our industry.

We see the impact of our Supervisors being better equipped to share messages, get them to cascade down and to be more influential with their team. Just having IMP work with us to better understand us, our needs, our Supervisors needs and our training requirements helped the programs be tailored specifically to us.

There are so many levels to this Outcome Thinking® which is what I love. Even as trainers, when we came back and went through IMP’s Outcome Focus® Approach to Managing Your Message Program at the higher level, we found that we were able to get extreme value. We focus on using the “value-add” language. I even found personally that I was able to bring the information in at a leadership level and utilize it better connect with my own team and help them drive results.

The IMP team has been instrumental in helping us have all of our materials, assessments and information in place so we can excel as trainers in the field. It has truly been a strategic partnership that we value.

I use Anne Warfield’s Outcome Thinking approach almost every day.

I have been through Anne’s series of Outcome Thinking classes, a leadership class and most recently, one-on-one executive coaching. As a result, I am a firm believer in the results she produces. Having relied nearly all of my life and career on my innate sense of confidence and ability to communicate well in most situations, I found myself baffled when I was struggling to find my footing in new position I had recently taken. I was having trouble being understood and valued by the leadership in my department – something I had rarely encountered before.

I started working with Anne to look at various real work situations, sometimes looking at something that happened in the past and sometimes preparing for a future event. I approached each session with a desire to walk away with something that I could learn, practice in real life and eventually utilize to strengthen my executive presence and be seen as someone who is a bright, strategic thinker. I did not want to change who I was, but rather gain techniques that would change how my messages and ideas were received by others.

What I gained from my training and my personal time with Anne, is a different way of thinking, the ability to focus my communications and the skills to specifically target and achieve the outcomes I am seeking. She has helped me develop both personally and professionally and I consider her a trusted advisor and long term business partner. I strongly recommend her executive coaching services and training to anyone who wants to see noticeable, tangible results.

I first attended an Outcome Thinking® program for leaders in 2006. Being a pretty successful presenter I wasn’t sure how this program would be different from typical presentation programs. Because we worked with our own presentations and material I found it helped me see more clearly how and why I share information the way I do so that I could then make my own communication more effective.

Outcome Thinking® improved my ability to pull together succinct information, be more authentic in my delivery and helped me speak with more confidence. Because I saw the benefits of this program in my own presentations, I then put my entire team through it.

Since 2006 I continue to send new leaders so they can be more transformational in the way they think, listen and speak. I find that Outcome Thinking® really aligns with my philosophy as a leader as it helps all the leaders to be more open in their thinking so they can be more collaborative and innovative. For me, I find that once people have learned Outcome Thinking® they are less defensive and more open to hearing how they can bring things to the next level in their performance. Their mind is so focused on the others that they hear things in a different way.

In our job working in hospital and clinic settings we need leaders to be able to see how what they say impacts physicians, patients and staff so they say the right thing at the right time.

It is essential that all of our messaging is aligned with our organizational goals and strategic direction- Outcome Thinking® helps them do just that. Matter-of-fact, the difference between those that have learned Outcome Thinking® and those who haven’t gone through it is so easy to distinguish that we can tell if someone is communicating using Outcome Thinking® approaches. If you are a leader looking to get your team to be more independent, more strategic and have a stronger executive presence, Outcome Thinking® is for you.

My first team I sent through Outcome Thinking® because I wanted them to develop more of an Executive Presence & Mindset. When they came back from the program they had a whole difference level of confidence that came out in the way they acted and responded to others. I saw it in the way they were now able to sum up correctly what they heard, Their ability to listen to others and really hear what they were saying or trying to say went to a higher level. This made other business groups feel validated and connected to them. So instead of preaching in “techie terms” they were able to relate to the Business Unit more effectively and become true partners.

I then sent a second group through the ProGOtiations to bump up how they negotiate. I saw them come back and look at negotiations from beyond even the typical “win/win” to looking at how to make both parties successful and build a stronger relationship. They were not antagonistic and were better at articulating their thoughts with higher level executives even. The videotaping was very eye opening as all walked away with how to improve from all levels of communication.

I have found that every time I bring you in and we go through another course, not only does my team move to a higher level, but so do I. Each time I gain a new nugget that just sticks like glue. You go so far beyond public speaking and regular negotiating to really understanding who all the players are and then how all the components of communication from the way you think, act, and speak need to be congruent in order to get the best results. This is one training that every time I bring it in consistently gets ranked by people beyond a 9.3, which for highly intellectual individuals is saying a lot!