Clients Testimonial
Communication

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“The impact of the workshops has also paid off in the long term. There are fewer situations which escalate to a formal grievance. We believe that this is due, in large part, to the communication skills that you and your associates teach.”

Judy Welcker
Training Officer
USDA/National Finance Center

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“Course evaluations continue to demonstrate that our employees appreciate the opportunity to participate, and are walking away with a renewed awareness and respect for the importance of diversity in the workplace.

Your continued work with our Diversity Champions Group empowers our employees to become true agents of change for the Center. This group has made numerous strides in improving communication among our 1700 employees, supervisors, and managers.”

I was impressed with your workshop facilitators, who were able to provide an atmosphere that was safe for revealing true emotion and free expression of ideas. The teamwork exercises managed to pull all 25 very diverse individuals in my class into a single team.

Donna S Maeder
Equal Opportunity Specialist
USDA/National Finance Center

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“Your “team building” work with our senior staff was highly successful. Success in that effort lead to an agreement to have C. Harris and Companies train some 400 managers, supervisors, and other employees in effective communication skills.”

John R. Ortego
Director
USDA/National Finance Center

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Thank you for speaking about “Culturally Sensitive Communication” at our In-service. We enjoyed your talk immensely and we found you to be a very inspirational, warm and sincere person.

Your presentation was truly refreshing. You made us examine our own trust issues and realize how they influence the larger picture. This is such a sensitive topic and your ability to diffuse the issue, provoke thoughtful insight and promote change is unparalleled in our experiences.

Kat Rice, MSW
Executive Director
Grace House

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“The compliments poured in during the morning break, luncheon, and the rest of the day after your address to our members at the National Association of Women in Construction Region 5 Annual Forum.

Your audience felt energized, motivated and a greater sense of understanding of the needs and benefits of effectively communicating in their personal, business and civic environments.

It has been my pleasure to be able to work with you during the planning of our Conference. It was a FABULOUS KEYNOTE ADDRESS.”

Barbara R Alleman, CCA
NAWIC Region 5
Forum Coordinator

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“Both your superb delivery and the genuine quality in presentation of ideas made this an excellent program for our project personnel. We certainly feel that the workshop achieved its goals.

Special in the workshop was the way you crafted equity/diversity issues into communication and relationship skills that daily impact work and other interactions. Your humor, your down-to-earth examples, your interactive style, the application exercises – all made this a powerful delivery.

Participants loved the workshop. Note some of the remarks they made: “My favorite was Cathy Harris’ professional development workshop!!!” “Cathy Harris was a wonderful presenter.” “Group building games and activities were a favorite aspect.” (The workshop was) Too short – (we regret) not having more time with Cathy.” “Cathy needs to come to all universities/colleges that … (have projects); central administration needs to be sensitized to these issues.” Overall, your impact on their mission was impressive.

You were very flexible and accommodating of our needs and implemented all of our contract with you very well.”

Dr. Margaret Hargroder,
Director
University Southwestern Louisiana

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“Your seminar entitled, “Communication That Works” was very informative as well as stimulating. The participants’ evaluation of your seminar was outstanding

‘Cathy Harris was Dynamic!”
“Cathy Harris was wonderful!”
“The speaker kept your attention and class participation.”
“Ask Cathy Harris to return next year; Best year yet!”
“This workshop conducted by Cathy Harris was excellent!”
“Hope she’s here for the next Conference.”

Lisa F. Spurlock
Workshop Coordinator
EEO Leadership Conference
Federal Executive Board

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“The sessions relative to Diversity and EEO Laws not only increased our level of awareness, but also provided excellent guidelines for communicating and working together. Your canny ability to motivate the staff to eagerly participate as individuals and during group sessions is to be commended.”

“The staff loved your personal style, the group exercises and the relaxed environment. Several employees expressed that they received more than they hoped for. Additionally, the staff greatly appreciated the fast paced hands-on approach used throughout the entire presentation.... We look forward to the opportunity to work with you again”*
Leroy R. Bailey, Jr.
General Manager
Transit Management of
Southeast Louisiana (TMSEL) See note below
Note: We have presented three additional programs for (TMSEL) since the above noted program.

“I am getting steady positive feedback about your flexibility as an expert presenter. EIA employees were impressed at your fluidity to cover the following three sessions: Communication That Works, Relationships for Building Trust and the Multiple Perspectives Discussion facilitated by you between our Administrator, Deputy Administrator and employees.”

“Your dynamic ability to educate skeptics has really paid off. Participants accepted your validity about the value of respecting differences and more importantly, they are actually showing signs of applying this information into their day to day work.”

“Feedback on our evaluation forms rank you in the category of outstanding. You have convinced participating employees that diversity is not “soft stuff” but essential in determining how we do business.”

Barbara Hall
Diversity Manager
Department of Energy

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“Your seminar was enlightening in that it helped us to concretely identify the characteristics of a successful team and it allowed our employees to “rate” where they felt we were on each of those characteristics. It also demonstrated the importance of creating an environment in which people feel comfortable enough to communicate openly, and to learn to cultivate the strengths that can result from the differences in our talents, styles, skills, and backgrounds.

This type of interaction will allow for greater openness, better communication, and forge a stronger bond between all of us.

The staff will continue to strengthen and expand upon the foundation that was laid at this seminar.

I believe that any organization that requires individuals to function as a team can benefit greatly from this seminar.”

Ellen M. Hazeur
Clerk, First City Court
City of New Orleans, Louisiana