Training Testimonials

Continuous Improvement Manager
Automotive Industry
You hit a home run when we tasked you with customizing and presenting one of the most important issues for our organization – Job Instruction: Train-the-Trainer workshop. Your workshop was custom tailored to our needs and on target! You have outfitted our operator trainers with skills, information, and practical experience to become effective on-the-job workplace trainers.

Client Services Associate
Medical Device Industry
It was a very enjoyable presentation which I found had a great mix of facts, quotes, exercises and discussions. I was very happy and extremely pleased to see that BOTH parts of my life are being recognized as important and relevant to being balanced in both environments.

Systems Developer
Technology Industry
I wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed today’s workshop (on Time Management). I tend to get bored and distracted easily and I found that your workshop was fast-paced and energetic – always a good sign!

Participant
Women’s Centre Workshop Participant
The Effective Communication Workshop was helpful for both personal and professional workplaces.  You are a very effective facilitator and you lead by example, through how you presented the information and seminars.  I would love to participate in other seminars that you conduct.

Manager
City of Hamilton
Very useful information.  There was a great deal more interaction and great participation with the other workshop attendees then I was expecting.  It was good to get other people’s perspective during the workshop activities.  I found the workbook, handout material and the many concepts introduced to be most valuable.   The DVD was also entertaining and informative.

Manager
Hydro One
I enjoyed the facilitator (Joanne Royce) and the discussion of business ethics which I believe is an extremely important topic in today’s society and organizations. The session was very thought provoking and provided some useful tools to take back and implement in my own workplace.

President
BPW Canada
I recommended you as the speaker for this important event based on my own experience as a participant in your workshop last January. Your workshop material was relevant, interesting, thought-provoking and easy to apply to my own business. Thank you again for your excellent workshop!

David Farrell
Farrell Medical Group
F+ FANTASTIC!

Melvina Walter
Executive Director – The Women’s Centre
Thank you very much for conducting and presenting the Effective Communication workshop.  The participants found the workshop be very effective and helpful.  Comments included:

• Very interesting.  The paraphrasing section and activity was very helpful.  I’ll certainly make some changes as a result of this workshop.
• The workshop was excellent.   Joanne got the group interacting and communicating.  I will absolutely make some changes in how I communicate.

Employee
City of Hamilton
The Time Management Workshop was excellent.  I wish it was longer.   The practical tools can be applied immediately.  I liked the self evaluation that was without labels and judgement. 

Participant
The Stress in the Workplace provided fantastic information and Joanne is very personable.  I found the tools introduced to cope with stress to be most valuable. 

Participant
You made great use of multi-media to present content during Time Management for Team Leaders and Supervisors  workshop.  You are a very knowledgeable instructor and are insightful.   Thank you, Joanne!

Wendy Piasentin
Program Administrator
Skills Training Centre
Your students report that you are an organized and prepared facilitator who demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the subject material (Training and Development), and you presented it in a clear and concise, easy to understand manner using a vareity of teaching methods and materials.  Your students felt there was a positive learning environment in which you encouraged participation and answered their questions.   We really appreciated you coming in at the last moment to deliver this course.

Ravi Persaud
York / Seneca Rehabilitation Services Certificate Program
Thank you for being a guest speaker at our class at York University Campus.  This program, the only one of its kind in Canada, prepares student to become rehab counsellors.   The topic of Business Ethics and Integrity was very well received with excellent comments by the students as follows:

• Very enthusiastic and passionate about the topic, so it made it easy to listen to.  Very knowledgeable.
• I enjoyed the activities, especially the case studies.  Excellent presenter and knowledge.
• I liked the exercises that were incorporated, because that’s what encouraged me to think.
• Well spoken and very interactive which was good.  Wish there was more time.  
• I liked the practical application and real life examples, the group activities, and the concise and clear slides.  
• It was great that you applied the topic to our industry as rehab counsellors and professionals. 

Rosa Filipe
Vice President – Sheridan Student Union
You are receiving this letter because you have been given a leaf.  What does that mean?  It means that you are doing something great, and one or more students you come into contact with want to recognize you.  The student union put together a Tree of Appreciation, and gave students the opportunity to say Thank You to the people who made their year a great one.  So on behalf of the students, I would like to say it again.  Thank you for all your work and the contribution that you have made.

Audie McCarthy
President, The Marrek Group
Chairperson, Oakville Boost Your Business Committee
I wanted to thank you for presenting the Business Ethics and Integrity Workshop on October 7, 2004.  We were delighted to have a very talented member (you) at our first event to launch our “Boost Your Business” speaker series.  The feedback received was great and included:

• A natural speaker.  Great information and warm-hearted delivery.
• The speaker really knows her stuff.  What a class act.
• Very thought provoking for all of us.
• Very motivating.  Makes me hopeful that I too can find a workplace based on ethics and integrity that matches my values.

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