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"This Law Firm had the recent good fortune to engage Indiggo Associates in a series of activities, with the intent of promoting the capabilities of our employees and the strength of our organization. Indiggo led all of our legal and administrative employees through a series of communication workshops which served to enhance our individual communication skills. We then launched a program relating to the identification of our Firm's core values, and the understanding and FIrm-wide acceptance of what constitutes our purpose and vision. Through Indiggo's guidance, we have come to understand the importance of our values, purpose and vision in all aspects of our enterprise. We now employ these factors in our hiring process, evaluation process, compensation system, marketing, and most importantly, in the way we interact with each other and our clients on a daily basis. These excercises have had a profound effect on our Firm and its members. Though these processes are in their early stages, we already sense a tremendous value for having gone down this path. Clearly, we attribute most of that success to the leadership and facilitation of our efforts by Marc Inzelstein and Janeen Gelbart of Indiggo. They bring not only expertise and experience to their work, but an obvious passion. That passion was essential in overcoming the natural resistance many lawyers have to this type of pcess and self-examination. Our firm has been fortunate to have experienced consistent and escalating success over the past fifteen years. We had no need, and certainly no crisis, that led us to engage in this type of process. On reflection, however, I am sure that we will look back in a few years and recognize that this was a necessary and vital undertaking for the realization of continued success.
"As the Corporate Communications division of the World Bank underwent a merger of two separate reporting units, Janeen Gelbart and Marc Inzelstein provided us with wide-ranging, sound, and practical strategic advice. Never an easy undertaking, this organizational change was greatly facilitated by the background theory, team-building experiences, and shared interpersonal skills that Janeen and Marc offered. Quality surveys among our staff after their interventions showed unanimous appreciation for the way Janeen and Marc were able to integrate global best practice models with the particular needs of our expanded team. We would have no hesitation in using their services in the future."
"I am writing to commend Janeen Gelbart and Marc Inzelstein of Indiggo Associates for their excellent services rendered to Leadership Montgomery. We at Leadership Montgomery have experienced exemplary service and personalized attention from Janeen and Marc, and we plant to continue to engage them in the future. Indiggo supported and increased organizational capacity through facilitating cooperation between Board members and leadership. An immense help, Janeen and Marc assisted us in finding our core identity, motivation and inspiration. They stimulated creativity and vision through an initiation of a strategic plan that fit our time frame appropriately and demonstrated their commitment through the trials and obstacles we were presented with throughout preparation. Leadership Montgomery is proud to be able to pass both Indiggo and Janeen and Marc's skills on to other organizations in need of such detail-oriented, attentive and effective communicators."
"I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Indiggo Associates. Individual staff members in our organization have greatly benefited from your support. I have found you to be well informed and very approachable. You have provided focus that enhanced our systems work with the unions. Your professionalism and insights have enriched our organization’s ability to reach our goals. Working with you has been a rich experience; your accessibility and knowledge are true strengths."
"On behalf of the Carl M. Freeman Foundation Trustees, I would like to thank you for facilitating our Board Retreat. Your careful and thorough advance preparation ensured that the retreat would be a success and we would accomplish our objectives. Your methods for conducting the retreat made everyone feel comfortable and engaged in the thought-provoking discussions. Thanks to your leadership and attentiveness, we will be better able to carry out our mission. This will help the organizations and communities we support. With your help, the Foundation will continue to flourish and be a viable and visible asset to the community. Thank you again for making the retreat a great success! We look forward to working with you in the future. Please feel free to list me as a reference for prospective future clients."
"The Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County (AHCMC) appreciates the opportunity to recommend INDIGGO ASSOCIATES. AHCMC is a not-for-profit organization and we contracted with IINDIGGO to help us with our Board of Directors Retreat. At our Retreat, INDIGGO helped us develop our strategic plan through facilitation and structured dialogue. Their unique blend of teamwork and conversation helped us accomplish our retreat goals. They were easy to work with and I would highly recommend them again."
"The High Performance Communication Workshops completed by Indiggo Associates were great. The attendees evaluating the course identified value in the learning. This powerful skill of communication helped us understand each other as well as taking 100% responsibility for the outcome. Other comments included:
Thank you Janeen and Marc for the great class. You are both wonderful facilitators."
"On behalf of our firm, I would like to express our sincere appreciation to you for your excellent facilitation of our firm's retreat on February 27, 2004. You fulfilled all of our expectations and helped to create a very successful retreat. Each year, it is a challenge to educate and sustain the interest of the attorneys at our firm retreat. We continually strive to present new techniques and issues to achieve our interrelated objectives of integrating new attorneys into the firm, reinvigorating the energies of senior attorneys and identifying/addressing current management issues. We appreciate the time and efforts you made in preparing for the retreat by learning our culture, identifying the salient issues and conceiving of techniques and methodologies to use at the retreat. Your experience and creativity resulted in a very successful implementation of the objectives we hoped to achieve. Thanks again for all of your fine efforts on our behalf, and feel free to contact us if you need references in the future."
"As the President & CEO of the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce, it has been a great pleasure for me to serve an organization that, over the last three years, has undergone a dramatic organizational turnaround and has now earned a strong reputation for principled leadership and effective action for the betterment of our community. Our success has been driven by a fully engaged Board of Directors and membership that includes the very highest level of business and non-profit leaders in our community, and by our dedicated and talented staff. However, none of that would have been possible without one other secret to our success: Indiggo Associates. They have facilitated our Board and staff retreats, led highly effective team-building workshops for our staff, and led us through a highly challenging strategic planning process that continues to evolve to this day. From helping us develop and define our core identity; leading our strategic planning efforts and defining our values, purpose and mission; they helped us literally get back on track with the needs of our members and the broader community and their expert facilitation style kept our volunteer leadership fully engaged and achieved complete ownership and buy-in from the outset. Every step of the way, they have served as my own personal strategic planning "gurus" and were the catalyst for bringing out some of our best thinking from our Board, membership and staff. Indiggo Associates has played a key role in bringing our level of performance, strategic alignment and organizational growth up, not only to the next level, but up a dozen levels. I would not hesitate to recommend Marc and Janeen to any other organization facing similar challenges in motivating and uniting our Board leadership, members and staff around a common vision and then helping us make that vision a reality."
"I attended a workshop for senior executives conducted by Indiggo Associates at the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce. Indiggo Associates has a unique approach for helping executives and their organizations reach higher levels of performance and productivity. I found the workshop to be both innovative and informative, and would recommend it to CEO's and their executive teams."
"The workshop content and format from Indiggo enabled us in reaching higher levels of focus and performance both individually and as a team. By guiding us to center our interactions on what we stand for, where we're going and why - we have been able to focus on what's most important for the organization."
"I thought the Board Retreat (MCCC) was well organized and facilitated. The agenda was well thought out and organized. It set a great framework for building a very successful organization that will have a significant impact on the quality of life in Montgomery county."
"Well organized and realistic. Two qualities that have been lacking in Board retreats that I have attended for other organizations."
"This was the most well organized, useful, and enjoyable retreat that I have been to for any organization. Indiggo did a great job moving the board along through the various breakouts."
"Indiggo successfully engaged every participant in such a way that each one contributed in significant ways - in short - because everyone was engaged, we fulfilled our agenda."
"The retreat was a great success! The Indiggo team put a tremendous amount of work and thought into pulling together a diverse group and creating tangible results in a short amount of time. The facilitators didn't impose their views on us, but instead allowed us to evolve and create a very good work product. Equally important, the retreat was fun."
"I thought the workshop was concise, entertaining, didn’t drag on, kept people engaged, and gave us communication tools that I was able to put to immediate use."
"Thank you for holding such a good session for our Charter Members. We have received good feedback from them. They found the session to be informative and valuable."
"Indiggo Associates played an instrumental role in facilitating our strategic planning process. Integral to this effort was their ability to engage community leaders who, for a number of reasons, were not connected with the Chamber and gain their agreement to participate in our strategic planning process. As a result, the Chamber is now engaged across a much broader spectrum of our community and viewed as a more effective organization capable of being a catalyst for change not only with respect to business but in matters involving the overall well being of our community. The Chamber is now viewed as a multi-dimensional organization, thus increasing its effectiveness."
"Marc and Janeen helped the Frederick County Chamber of Commerce look into our future and design a strategic vision that will lead us to 2012 – the year we will celebrate 100 years in business. They were always inspiring and concerned about our organization and truly wanted our vision to be forward thinking and community minded. We hit the mark because of Indiggo."
Testimonials for Individual Leadership Development
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What part of this process was most valuable to you? “Early in the process, I expected traditional information about leadership that I have read or heard in classes and at training sessions. While I did receive invaluable resources on leadership and had ample opportunity to read, what I gained most from the experience was insight into myself as a leader.” “Through this experience, I not only received guidance but also support as I tried new ways of operating with people who report to me or to whom I report.” “The time and focus on what leadership means to me, how my actions and the accompanying reactions affect the organization’s work to achieve our goals.” After the conclusion of the process: “Things have been going even better than I could have hoped. I can't thank you enough for all that you have done to increase my success level as a leader.” |
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