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Client reactions
Commercial Bank
- Excellent process to harvest ideas in neutral environment.
- Valuable.
- Facilitates individual interaction.
- Need to be able to compress ideas - group into like families.
- Good, but where to from here?
- Like the removal of ego and the 'no-one' has control approach
- Enables everyone to participate in the thought processes
- Removes all boundaries associated with the thinking process
- Eliminates my view versus yours
- Logical process to let go and the win converge
- Helps you to use both sides of your brain
- It is important to start with the right questions
- Need to ensure that you have the right people to start with
- Excellent, but I don't feel we have made any decisions
- Excellent means of triggering creative thought
- Process was good for a kick-off meeting however probably left it a little too late in the
project.
Child Protection agencies
- Great process that we should access more often
- Get an outcome in a short period of time
- Good to have a structure and external facilitator
- Like the process, but feel it was a bit limiting
- Keeps discussion focused
- Great way to gain ideas and then clarify
- Excellent methodological way of getting many views
- Productive way of sharing ideas and a great process for getting lots of ideas in a short
time.
- Good to get lots of ideas - but still lots of work ahead.
- Great way to work and to get all these ideas down so quickly.
- Ensures a structured process and not sidetracking.
- Love the software.
- Helpful facilitation - non threatening.
- Balances viewpoints and inputs - goes a long way to equalising people.
- Efficient way to get all ideas down and to be seen by all.
- Useful way to highlight key issues and reach some agreement
- Would be helpful to have further session to look at service planning
Public service agency - 1
- Very interesting
- Good
- Excellent. Love to find a different way to think
- Useful and timely for planning. Too much CPV-specific
- Interesting to explore a new way of thinking
- Informative, enlightening.
- Innovative
- Useful
- Informative and insightful
- Nice to spend this amount of time out of office on thinking some things through.
- Interesting, more practical and less gimmicky than I expected
- Linked to annual business plan
- Increased awareness of styles of thinking - needs to be revisited again later
- Good, I had previous training on the Six Hats, so not new
- Good if we can implement this software.
- Process information was useful as a structured from of thinking - some of it was still a bit
light on.
- Informative and very useful for planning (unlike other facilitators we could mention!)
Public Service agency - 2
- Quick and moved freely and kept focus
- Good balance of theory and practice
- Group work best
- Process worked well, but too many breaks - makes for sleepy eyes
- Good regular breaks
- OK especially for the better typists and spellers
- We all enjoyed Bernie's singing - you can incorporate this into the day job - the COV Blues,
babe!
- Good combination of activities. Good timing of introducing actual info re colours of hats
- Process was fine - could have benefited from seeing how the thing comes together at the
end
- Good to have group working but individual input too
- Not bad but found my eyes started to strain with the overhead text
- The process was engaging yet relaxed - the linked keyboards ensured the involvement of
everyone all day.
- Moved along well - actually good not to start with the video - better to hear it explained in
person
- Interesting and varied - plenty of interaction
Consulting Group
- Challenged us to think in action terms
- Energising
- Created vitality in the group
- Using this tool has been way better than flip charts
- Great medium to elicit responses
- Impressed with the technology without butcher's paper
- Empowers people to speak at all levels
- Great to see everyone's feedback instantly
- Allows us to piggyback on others ideas as you go
- Get much more information more quickly
- This is a great tool - leaves butchers paper for dead
- Fabulous way to capture ideas, thinking
- A great way to hear so many ideas and suggestions in one hit and is time efficient too -
helps us focus on the key issues rather than getting sidetracked on the big picture
- Great forum for getting lots of information down in an open and safe environment.
- Great non-threatening way to engage. Fantastic way for everyone to be heard
- Novel, fun, rewarding, possible solutions
- A great tool for provoking and focusing thought and recording ideas.
- Who is going to run the spell checker through all of this?
- Energising, motivating and a clear action plan
- Energising because we all have a voice with this process - and there is less listening time
needed
- Great tool. Refreshing way to engage people and keep the energy going
- Having fun, but getting the work done. I'm going to use this tool for my business plan
- Gets us to focus on actions we can achieve and force us to do something about it
- Far more efficient brainstorming process than any other exposed to - maximises brainpower
of group
- Excellent forum for introducing new words e.g Nano KPI and silotic
- This a great tool - would love to utilize it more in a work setting
- We are largely in agreement on the problems, but our contribution to the solutions still a bit
hazy. If only action was as easy!
- The process allows thoughts and views to be captured - we need to translate these to action
- Allows multiple views to be expressed at once
- Fun, creative process encourages free thoughts
- Who will go through this and find the links and connect people?
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