Career Dreams Educational Foundation

Evaluation

TRAINING THE TRAINERS

Talent Based Leadership System

Tatum & Eunice School Districts
(3-day teacher & staff facilitation training)

Tatum & Eunice, New Mexico

October, 2000

Evaluation of Speaker: 

1=Poor to 10=Excellent: Average = 9.6

10, 10, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 8, 10, 9, 10, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10 

Comments:

• Thoroughly enjoyable – very knowledgeable – highly motivating.
  
  
• Very motivating, funny, kept attention.
  
  
• A true visionary; great ability to restate/clarify. Open/honest personally and professionally!
  
  
• It is a confidence builder, makes you realize that there are no wrong answers.
  
  
• Very easy to understand and helpful in creating goals and ideals.
  
  
• Trainer was very inspirational. His enthusiasm was contagious. He remained positive for the duration of the workshop.
  
  
• I enjoyed the effectiveness of the trainers. They were quite prepared.
  
  
• Most of the time the trainers were explicit in their presentations & instructions. At times they were confusing.
  
  
• I feel this was a very enlightening and informative class and was done in a very up-swing, positive way. The trainers kept everyone enthusiastic.
  
  
• Very motivational. Positive to the point that all participants were saying "no negatives."
  
  
• Very enthusiastic and energetic and knowledgeable.
  
  
• Approach was a little rattled at times.
  
  
• Excellent workshop. We need to implement in our school. Motivating, inspirational.
  
  
• Very enthusiastic, knowledgeable, believes in program.
  
  
• I think the trainers were energetic, upbeat and willing to help.
  
  
• I, for the first time going to a workshop learned something. Thanks for the excellent training.

Evaluation of the Content and Organization of the Program:

1=Poor to 10=Excellent: Average = 9.1

9, 9, 7, 10, 10, 10, 8, 10, 7, 10, 9, 10, 9, 9, 9, 10, 7, 10 

Comments:

• Prior notice as to content and objectives of workshop would be helpful.
  
  
• I like knowing where I am going and to know end results or possibilities before devoting my time.
  
  
• It was great to finally be acknowledged in a positive way in education. Organization was great as well.
  
  
• Great ability to keep the groups on task and focused.
  
  
• Very helpful in teaching how to accomplish your goals and ideals.
  
  
• I was somewhat confused about which workbook the trainer was discussing.
  
  
• I think the action groups need to have different names. The initial one seemed to be different from the other one.
  
  
• Same as above – very good.
  
  
• Organization was "Great".
  
  
• Structured chaos – love it!
  
  
• It got better as we went on – the material is very well developed.
  
  
• We were motivated, worked, reinforced and rewarded.
  
  
• Very well organized – repetition got old, but realize it is important.
  
  
• I thought the content and organization was pretty good. Just repetitive.

How do you feel the CDEF Training has helped you personally?

• A renewed sense of purpose – Pride in the potential effect (as an educator) that I will have with students.
  
  
• The CDEF Training has helped me to break out of the limits of the day-to-day work effort. Education is going to change within the next several years and educators are going to need to be in control of their destiny.
  
  
• Created unity among many – reinforced what I knew, but needed to be reminded – created self-motivation.
  
  
• The ability to be able to say I really am okay. Thinking out of the box is perfectly acceptable.
  
  
• Help me to teach those that work with me and around the whole community some of the principles that I have learned.
  
  
• Help you feel good about yourself.
  
  
• The CDEF Training has helped me realize that I am talented.
  
  
• This training has helped me to become more of a positive player & leader & how to listen appropriately.
  
  
• It has helped to make me feel more positive. Negativity spreads so quickly that I have felt consumed with it.
  
  
• It has helped me to see things about myself and others that I work with that I had not realized.
  
  
• It made me feel I can do anything. I have dreams and I can achieve them.
  
  
• CDEF helped me to think or realize dreams that had been hidden (suppressed) for many years. I am more confident of myself and of my job because of the positive affirmation given throughout the workshop.
  
  
• To eliminate my negatives – to take the lid off my dreams.
  
  
• Positive motivation, self awareness, feedback.
  
  
• Motivated to make some changes.
  
  
• I have become more goal-oriented with the attitude I can accomplish these goals.
  
  
• I now have expressed my dreams to others. Something I wouldn’t do before. I also learned I had talents I didn’t know about.
  
  
• I now realize how negative I’ve been in my thinking.

How do you feel the CDEF Training has impacted your team, group, and/or organization?

• Camaraderie greatly improved – unified sense of direction.
  
  
• The CDEF Training has helped to get our staff together – we are no longer just elementary, middle school, or high school. We are a team.
  
  
• Respect – unity – motivation – teamwork.
  
  
• It has given us freedom to dream and be verbal about them with no fear of negativity. Greater respect for individuality.
  
  
• Gave us more self confidence and made us all realize the we are all team players and we can do it.
  
  
• Helped to bring a lot of good ideals together, and how to finish the job.
  
  
• The CDEF Training has encouraged my group to become more positive with each other.
  
  
• It has helped the team to hold no bars, to be able to be open with our fellow members.
  
  
• It has made us feel closer to each other – we have increased respect for each other & our ideas.
  
  
• I feel that it has made us feel like we are one team even though we represented all areas in our district.
  
  
• We had a variety of members and we all worked together.
  
  
• Our diverse group has been brought together and we all have one goal in mind and that is to be positive about ourselves, our co-workers, our school, students, and the future of our school district and education in general.
  
  
• We have a corporate dream for our school.
  
  
• We will succeed. We will allow others to know their brilliance. We will change.
  
  
• Gave us an opportunity to work with staff members we do not usually work with. It helped to build bridges between departments.
  
  
• More communication between different factions – maintenance, staff, administration; different schools.
  
  
• We are always positive now. We all want to do this to help our school.
  
  
• We are learning on a positive note and I think, no I know, we will carry this message forward.

Do you feel that continuing the CDEF programs will impact your school and the students in your district? If yes, what do you believe the impact will be?

• Yes! Improved attitudes = improved scores = improved people = wonderful, productive citizens!
  
  
• Yes! Positive - Positive - Positive – and its so damn simple.
  
  
• Yes, unlimited results.
  
  
• Yes!!! The ability to take an individual’s dreams and facilitate them to reality for each student. Education with true purpose.
  
  
• Yes I do! Positive attitude – Motivation – We can move mountains just by reaching for our dreams.
  
  
• Help to give the whole school a better feeling.
  
  
• Yes. I feel the impact will be a more positive school atmosphere for students.
  
  
• Yes, with the direct help of the team, it would certainly help to motivate the rest of the faculty to motivate their students as well.
  
  
• I’m really not sure. I think it can be if we follow through with the goals of Career Dreams.
  
  
• Yes, I think it will create an awareness to make things better and the will to do it!
  
  
• Yes, it will impact us with work, and accomplishment.
  
  
• Yes. It will not be anything but positive! From the administration all the way down the chain of command to the students, parents and community. A possessiveness and hopefulness will be experienced.
  
  
• Yes – I would love to open the future to every student.
  
  
• Yes, each student, teacher, staff member will be their choice, but I believe the rewards will come.
  
  
• I believe the impact will be a more positive environment for both students and staff.
  
  
• Yes, more positive programs should reach out to everyone. The public schools need help with more positive impacts.
  
  
• Yes, I believe that as long as we stay motivated, this will surely benefit our school.
  
  
• Yes! It will open a lot of eyes as to the negative impact we all have on each other.