To guide our clients towards collaborative and productive idea generation and decision making by expertly providing the best possible
facilitation, training and team building services for high productivity and engagement in the workplace. .
Approach
Our approach... is to work in partnership and collaboration with you, our clients. We practice what we "preach."
Tour Guides • Idea Guides
We are like tour guides ...guiding clients through the world of innovation, teams, solutions, problem solving, customer service and strategic planning
Facilitation at its Best
Our professional facilitators, trainers and team builder are highly experienced, responsive and unique.
"Thank you for your hard work in our Messaging Workshop yesterday. As always, your mastery of the room was beyond impressive.
Feedback from the client has been terrific. Everyone was just so blown
away that you were able to maintain not just interest, but enthusiasm
for six plus hours."
"I have been to countless workshops on team building. However, yours was
without a question one of the best I have ever participated in. Your
exercises were user-friendly, fun to do, and most importantly, truly
served their educational purposes...Furthermore, I felt that your group facilitation skills were among the best I had ever witnessed.
Even with a tough audience, you made everyone feel comfortable and
energized. For me, your session made my 6-hour plane trip (in each
direction!) worth it."
Deborah
Director, UJC National Training Department
Bruce taught us
through the "Leading Effective Meetings" workshop, how to make our
meetings more productive. By being more productive and structured in our
meeting process, we found it did not take as many meetings to achieve
our goals. The meetings may not have decreased, but the nature of the
meetings have changed and we are achieving many more goals on our
continuous improvement project lists! The "Leading Effective Meetings" method has become a standard operating procedure for our organization
which we will train on a continuous basis. We look forward to a long,
healthy, productive working relationship with Honig IdeaGuides."
Lori Bassett
Vice President, Pergo, Inc.
"I am getting great feedback from staff who are using the tools they received during the training. Many staff informed me that after leaving the class they immediately utilized what they learned to deal with upset or confused citizens. The class was great and we may need your services again after hiring new staffing in administration and inspection."
Sandra Smith
City of Oakland, Bureau of Building
"I'd put you in the top 95%...You're amazing"
Dianne Zimmerman
Superintendent of Schools
"Our staff had the opportunity to work with Bruce in a one day retreat,
focusing on communication and collaboration between the various staff
deparments. Bruce really helped us define our strengths and weaknesses
and set our goals for improvement for the school year and beyond. At our
monthly meetings, the agendas are driven by the goals we set with Bruce
and more productive than before. We communicate more efficiently and an
openness has arisen, where communication feels more "safe" and
constructive. Overall, our team has found a new cohesiveness and
therefore, we have made better decisions and put new practices in place
that benefit not only our departments, but the school as a whole.
Moreover, Bruce was a great guide to our work, while allowing our needs
to be heard and drive the agenda for the day. Everyone is still taking
about how much fun they had. I highly recommend Idea Guides for your next team building retreat."
Christine, Development Associate
Private K-8 School
I want you to know it was a pleasure getting to work with you and see you deliver this very beneficial seminar. I appreciate all the time and effort you put into ensuring this piece was suitable for Quorum.
Patrick Ursino
Quorum Review IRB
Great day- all smiles from everyone I’ve seen who participated.
Michael Lynch, Director of Secondary Education & Professional Development
Adams50 School District
"“Our management group came together around a shared vision. We are
currently integrating two companies into one. This meeting helped reduce
the ‘us and them’ to ‘we,’ increased optimism and teamwork and built
the confidence regarding the direction of the company. I would recommend
this service. The tools and methodology that Bruce uses are very
effective. He brings everyone into the process and helps drive the
discussion to a consensus. Bruce is easy to work with, professional in
his approach and an excellent communicator.""
Paul Frey, General Manager,
Dow AgroSciences Forage Seed
It was a delight working with you. We captured 22 final ideas (and over 700 initial ones) and got great feedback from both faculty and students on the session.
Dr. Christopher Hewitt, Science Relations Manager, North America
BASF
> 6
Facilitators
1999
We Started
> 150
Happy clients
> 250
Projects
Some Facts About us
We were originally named the Terzetto Group (which means three voices: Creative, Team and Customer). In 2001 we changed our name to Honig IdeaGuides. Known as IdeaGuides. 'Cause that is what we do: We guide your ideas (and decisions).
