“My approach to solving work challenges has now markedly changed. My resolve is the same, but my mental disposition is different and my goals are wider: each individual problem brings the possibility for producing something richly creative – unimaginable and unique, and for generating a positive human experience for all of us, individually and collectively.” –Pierre Lavalard Associate Director Continuing Medical Education, Univ. of Michigan “Having come into an organization that had been operating in crisis mode for several years, I knew I needed an intervention model that would make this transition as smooth as possible. Skillful Means has given me and my staff the structures we need to get the organization on the road to success. Without this intervention, it would have taken a very long time to get the results we have seen in the short three months that we have been working together.” –Paula McCoy CEO, N.C. Minority Support Center “We learned how to become better people by becoming better employees.” –Robert Dowling Executive Director, Orange Community Housing and Land Trust, N. C. “Skillful Means enables us to analyze familiar obstacles in new ways. My directors and managers all enrolled in this experiential program. It brought us deeper knowledge of ourselves, and a better means for productivity in our professional and personal lives.” –Almir Neto CEO for Latin America, Compass Food and Catering Services “What I found so valuable about the Skillful Means Management method, and what I carried away from it, was a keen awareness of the need to listen for what is beneath the surface, both in my own thoughts and in the ‘noise’ that confronts one in one’s dealing with other individuals and with institutions.” –Ralph Hexter Executive Dean, College of Letters & Sciences, Univ. of California, Berkeley “Working with the support of what I have learned in the Transforming Stress Into Well-Being Program, my job has become lighter because I can handle stress in a more playful way and can accomplish things much easier.” –Ineke Smits Training Coordinator, Council for Refugees, The Netherlands |