Reflection GSC – Findings and Evaluation Comments from the Effective Leadership workshop for GSC Leadership Team held December 12-13, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA. 8 hour workshop, (8 participants). Instructor – Joe Tassinari.

FINDINGS
(These are some of the workshop findings; benefits of the below findings can be found on the back of your Strengths Cards.)

Participants shared one reason they are a beneficial group member:

• Service Oriented
• Invested
• Playful
• Inclusive
• Visionary
• Task-oriented
• Historic Knowledge
• Sincere
• Connectedness

Read what other's said makes a good team

Participants shared one reason that they want to lead:

• Create positive changes and outcomes
• Share ideas and experiences
• Help and give back
• Affect positive change
• Be a part of continuous growth and change for our community
• To foster peaceful workplaces
• To positively influence
• To help others create positive change

Participants mentioned why someone they know is a good leader:

• Dynamic and powerful
• Inclusive, respectful and fun
• Leads by example
• Respectful of contributions; people feel valued
• Relatable to everyone, makes people feel important
• * Visionary *
• Empathetic and caring
• Loving, compassionate and caring
• Makes people feel that they have something to offer

Participants mentioned one reason they make a good leader:

• Passion
• Commitment
• Respectful
• Dedication
• Passion
• Strategic
• Love's people 💖
• Wisdom
• Excellence
• Integrity

EVALUATION COMMENTS

What were the strengths of the workshop? What did you value most?

• Engaging activities & conversations. I value how open & willing the team was to share thoughts & ideas.
• The modeling of inclusiveness. the fact that leadership is done as an "us" function (vs. you or I). I enjoyed the activities, I see them as ways to create bonds of unity and joy in our organization.
• The inclusive approach. I valued the opportunity to learn more about, and share experiences with, my colleagues.
• Allowed time for us all to connect or reconnect and strengthen our connection. I valued the time to just focus on the development of our team and focus on our connection rather than our daily duties.
• The engagement, feeling equal, sharing and learning from each other.
• Very interactive, practical – tools/ideas that can be applied immediately. This allowed us to not only become better facilitators but this allowed us to get closer as a group.
• Being a person-centered approach. Included ALL staff.
• Strengths – safe environment that allowed everyone to be included. I valued everyone's participation.

How could this course be improved?

• I would only suggest having all phones put away and making sure everyone stayed for the entire workshop.
• Provide examples of more energizers.
• It would have been nice to receive a handout of all the activities to refer to.
• The 2nd day would have been nice for lower level managers to get first hand.
• From a trainers perspective I found the training ideal. There were several takeaways and information that we could implement right away. I thought this was a wonderful training.
• Seems pretty solid, I can't think of anything.
• The only nugget would be applying a little more organizational meat outcomes around the staff meeting model.
• A couple of extra "stand & stretch" breaks for those of us with shorter attention spans 🙂

Would you recommend similar workshops for other Goodwill staff? Why?

• Yes. Good opportunity for real-time learning & team building.
• Absolutely! IT promotes unity and positivity, which breeds growth & success.
• Yes. The inclusive, engaging approach would be great for strengthening and unifying teams.
• Yes, it is very helpful with team building and creating an environment where we can strategize and focus on how we can do better, without someone needing to be wrong. Definitely a safe space.
• Yes, because it will help make staff meetings fun and more focused.
• Yes. This would be good to do as a GSC leadership team. The same way it brought us together (Directors) it would bring the GSC leadership together as a team.
• Yes. It's in line with our values.
• Yes I would recommend. The style is easy to follow and easy for everyone to engage.

Anything else?

• Thank you (Joe) for your passion and dedication to helping people be positive and be more productive.
• Great Job, Joe!
• GREAT training. Cannot wait to apply all I've learned!
• –
• This was a wonderful training and I feel blessed to have been able to participate.
• Thank you!
• No! Thank you.
• Thank You! 🙂

These Findings and Evaluation results were transcribed verbatim; gently edited for the courtesy of the reader – apostrophes added and words spelled correctly (if a word is misspelled it's either a transcriber error, or was left as is for effect). I'd love to hear what you think about a workshop reflection page like this one!  ~Joe

End of GSC REFLECTION for the 12/12-13/18 Effective Leadership workshop.

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