I thought you might want to see what the the evaluations look like from a Recruit and Retain seminar.  This school has 90+ faculty members and the event was a 6+ hour workshop.  Kordell

PIONEER CAREER & TECHNOLOGY CENTER EVALUATION RESPONSES

STATUS QUO TO STATUS GROW WORKSHOP with Kordell Norton, Synergy Solutions LLC

September 1, 2006

What did we do today that helped?  What insights will help you get better results and improve?

• Focused on the positive; this is important.  Some of us need to hear it.
• The group work was great keeping us busy kept us involved.
• Group activities were great.  Also placing your visuals around the group was good.  I talk like this in my class – love the personal stories & examples.  I liked the poster idea.  It shows what they are getting out of PCTC.
• Do more team building at the first of the year.  Having a combined lab of Jr. & Sr. this will help break the ice between them better.  Thanks for the websites.
• Helped to keep us on track.  Nice ideas on recruitment.
• Good principles and examples.  I didn’t think the 1st activity was useful/worthwhile.  That go me off to a negative start, but it was uphill from there.  Good energy and patience with the group.  This is usually an antsy group!
• Made us aware of things we don’t think of.
• Touch 7 times method of recruitment.  Age of experience.
• Gave good tips.  Entertaining.  You Can’s   Touch 7 times.  Parent to parent.
• The whole day was cool!  Got me to look at the way I recruit in different ways!  The “You Can’s” is great!
• A refreshing look at what we do in career center education.  Interesting perspectives on recruiting & retaining students.  Examples & links given.  A good in-service. You did well.
• Helped us see the change in language we need to use to better market our programs.  Changing our view on how our job is viewed.
• The poster on Benefits.  You can…. Demonstration    The concepts of focus on the student and help them “see” what they ‘get’.
• Motivated the staff to make them realize how to motivate their students.  We all have a better idea (skills).  How to sell our message.  Insights – no matter what you teach or position you have, you need to get people on your side through “You Can’s”.  We so often have such a passion for what we do, we forget others do not have that passion and our job is to teach the passion through You Cans.
• You Cans.  Good ideas for thinking about & marketing my program.  Story telling good idea.
• Helpful tips for selling our school!  How to get people involved!
• The program gave me new ways to think about recruiting.  I thought the idea of You Cans was most helpful.
• I liked learning about “you cans”.  Also, the www.salary.com site sounds great.
• Very motivating and it made me thin about my job in a different way.  I got a better insight on ways to motivate students to become the sellers of my program.
• Loved today.  The mix of activities was great.  Information was beneficial.  Especially liked the recruiting portion of the presentation.
• Taught me how to market myself for a better job.
• Focused on positives of retain and recruit.  Focus on methods,
• Ideas presented in very concise and easy to understand and implement.  U cans, start class with stories, have students sell your program.
• I like the “you cans”.  I need to get more Emotional in my delivery.
• 7 touches very good.
• More and better ways to recruit.  “stories” good salesmanship, branding, features/you cans.
• I loved “you cans”.  Loved bridge building, loved your stories.  Folder creations.  You are the BEST all day speaker I have sat through.
• We were involved and active.  We were given positive techniques to sell ourselves and our program.  We were treated with respect and allowed to be a part of the learning.  We shared ideas.  We didn’t just sit and have someone read an overhead.
• Focus on importance of first two weeks.  Fun activities, establish their likes and dislikes.
• Teamwork exercises that didn’t put anyone “on the spot”.  Gained insights into human nature that will help me rethink approaches to teaching.  Felt ‘validated’ in some things I already do, so can work from my strengths.
• Websites for reference.  Hands-on.  Stories.  Speaking to emotions.
• Put more fun & experiences in my teaching.  Tell more stories to keep students in my program.  Learned a great team building idea for my PRESS group.
• You cans.  Fishing expedition.  First steps training.  We are an experience economy.  I am formulating a new approach to sophomore visitations day having present students teach competencies to class & prospective students.
• Remember teamwork stages.  CASE DRASTIC websites
• The high energy of presentation helped “energize” me.
• The “T” charts   Features & U cans.  More unity and input (after the inservice) with our peers and administration.  Ideas and plans and directions on how to & what to do.  Sharing best practices.
• Team building and essential components of teams.  Reviewing who the customer is and what they want.  Linking emotions to “you can” performance.
• You cans.  Making one think of the positives about their positions and programs.  Helping with the recruiting process.  Good hands on activities!!
• The bridge builder.  The You Cans.  Laughter w/o threat of ridicule encourages engagement.  Emphasize/personalize the plusses.
• One of the best all-day in-services we’ve had here in my 13 years.
• Telling the student that they can do something is more effective than telling them what the school will do for them.
• The practical applications of my discipline.  Revisit my students’ frustrations.
• Made me a believer in using student to promote my robotics program.  How to get the student involved.
• Today’s inservice helped to show everyone how to recruit to our school which is a school of choice.  It also showed/emphasized on how everyone can be used to recruit.
• Good ideas that showed teamwork and creative thinking.  Try website.  ENJOYED!
• Thanks to you my Geometry students know that they can…  Can’t wait to display it in my room!!
• I thought the story journal was a great idea - I might use in class!  The ‘you can’ for marketing is great.  I know I need to show kids the benefits of English at a Tech school.
• The “you Cans” were really good.  Keep the focus on them and the benefits they will get.
• Hands-on Teambuilding (bridge).  Learned about “You Cans”.  Like the “tell a story” idea.
• Loved it!  Good ideas for teambuilding and selling your program.
• Helped to give me a better perspective on things.  I liked the Bridge project a lot.

What do you wish you had gotten more information on?  Do you have any thoughts for Kordell?

• Good job.  It is tough to keep the attention of this crowd.
• List of team-building suggestions.  Excellent job – kept us interested – taught us something.
• More info about Kordell and his background.
• Liked that several topics were covered.
• Less time.  Got lengthy.
• More info on getting the students to help with selling the Robotics program.  Do some Red Skelton skits.
• Everything was good.
• Information presented today in written form – Handouts at the end would be helpful.  (fishing example, touch points)
• Nice job
• Would like handouts.  There seemed to be a lot of wonderful information that I fear I may have missed some in my notes.  More website addresses.
• I work with one to two students at a time.  Most of what you did was easily adapted to small class size.
• We don’t pick our students, guidance does, it is hard to retain students if you only have sophomore orientation to sell your program.
• We need to have input when new students are chosen.
• Maybe a bit more attention to academics.
• Excellent presentation.
• More time to make some specific plans for recruitment and/or classroom plans.  Nice music.  Great stories.  Good humor.
• Overall, macro design ideas for Pioneer recruiting.  How we can present Pioneer as an entity.
• Good presentation.
• I would like more time to work at putting this information into my class.
• Great job – tons of simple but valuable ideas.
• More details on “You Cans” – more examples – more tools.
• Outstanding, funny, and informative.
• Kordell is a wonderful presenter.  Love the humor/quirks.
• Great job!  One of the best presentations we have had.
• You did a good job of keeping the program moving.  The humor and the activities made it enjoyable.
• I’m old – the memory needs help, need more of all of it.
• It was pretty thorough and very entertaining.
• A resource list or packet, possible CASE’s.
• Refresher course at beginning of school (before school starts) right before Sophomore visitation.  E-mail short, quick tips for teachers.
• How to invoke emotion?  Great stories, but too many, too quick.  More meat & potatoes.
• Did a good job – humorous.
• Divide up into interest areas:  career-tech teachers, academic teachers, non-teaching staff and give specific suggestions to each group (short time) during the day.