Testimonials

Situation Management Systems, Inc. has provided us with an excellent
service. They were thorough and professional in every aspect.
Their program "Positive Power and Influence" was a very enlightening
experience. The instructor has been a very knowledgeable
coach and mentor to all our attendees. We are very satisfied with their
work and we would look forward to working with them again.

A SMS client in Boston, Massachusetts
Global Organizational Learning and Development,
Gillette BU, Procter & Gamble Company

"I enjoyed the class and learning more about what it takes to be effective and successful at the task at hand".

"The instructor relayed the materials effectively and readily answered any questions in any situation. She also kept the group focused on the material and learning objectives".

In-House Program Participants
sanofi-aventis

"More than ten years after attending the influence and negotiation skills workshops myself, I was pleased to learn that SMS continues to offer these programs and continues to use only the very best instructors.  Setting up these two in-house programs was easy with the help provided by SMS staffers.  Post workshop surveys were uniformly enthusiastic about the curriculum, handouts and instructors.  Participants continue to express their gratitude for having been chosen to attend."
 
Thanks again for your help in setting up the programs.
 
All the best,
 
Craig A. Halverson
Vice President Regulatory Affairs
ZymoGenetics, Inc.

We’ve used Positive Power and Influence, Creating Results, and Influencing Change with great success here at NASA Glenn. People come out of the workshops with the ability to more profoundly impact the organizations and people they work with in order to get the results that are necessary to move the organization forward. I’ve taken the courses myself and I strongly recommend them to everyone I advise.

Jennifer Budd
NASA Glenn Research Center
Organization Development and Training Office

"I'm having difficulty writing about how the Positive Power and Influence Program (PPI) contributed to my attainment of a specific influence objective because the PPI program has pretty much contributed to every influence objective I've ever achieved. I attended the PPI program about thirty years ago. I was a young IT geek just out of MIT, and one of the business people at my company recommended the program. He was absolutely right: I needed the program because I was stuck in a single view of the world based on my experience at MIT. I saw the world as a logical place, and I somehow assumed that the best way to persuade others was to make a logical argument. In hindsight, I was hopelessly naive, but it wasn't until I attended the PPI program that I came to that realization. Somehow the PPI program convinced me that I needed to consider other persuasion methods. It was a shock, but I recognized my issues, and I've built on those alternative persuasion techniques ever since. I went on to thirty years of success in IT, and last year I wrote a book, Boiling the It Frog, to share my success secrets with others. I've also become a bit of an evangelist for other IT people when I see them stuck in that same simplistic view of the world that I held in my pre-PPI days. People are all different -- we all know that -- but it took the PPI program to show me how important some difference are".

Harwell Thrasher

Author, speaker, and business advisor

Making IT Clear, Inc.