What some recent clients say about Amy and HumanPoint: Through group training and one-on-one coaching, Amy improved the way we led the company. Her tools helped us assess potential employees and evaluate existing ones. She gave us monthly management measures that helped us look at workload and flow and employee effectiveness. I can’t say enough about her contribution to our success. Amy’s executive coaching allowed me to jumpstart the process and develop a strategic plan for my transition from VP to President of my company. As Amy and I got to know each other, I came to fully appreciate her value as a coach. I was impressed with her diligence and ability to compile and digest complex info quickly. She’s a catalyst, an accelerator; she makes things happen. One significant added benefit of working with Amy is that she is great at improving people’s presentation skills, which she did for me and other key GLY employees. When Amy first stepped into a meeting with our principles and owners, I could sense the reaction immediately: how can she help us industry veterans improve the way we run our company? Soon even the skeptics were listening closely and realizing that Amy could help us, and she has. Amy is passionate about people reaching their potential. It’s not just a job to her; it’s what she loves to do. She’s a great listener and quickly grasps the big picture. Amy gives you a choice about using the tools she offers―you can either take on the job yourself, or she’ll do it for you. She fully supported my efforts as marketing manager to help people throughout the company understand marketing initiatives that increase our efficiency and productivity, and help us win jobs. The entire company has become more attuned to meeting proposal deadlines and standards, and contributing fully to the process. We’re a growing company and need top performers in every position. To get there, we needed a better understanding of how people function so that we could hire people who had the right mix of aptitude and attitude to provide excellent service, every time. Training can’t turn the wrong person for the job into the right one. Amy gave us the assessment tools and more importantly taught us how to use them strategically, purposefully. Amy has introduced us to the right hiring tools and helped us implement them to their fullest extent. The last two hires we have made with Amy’s help have turned out to be really first rate, the right people in the right jobs. We usually get up to 75 applicants per opening and go through the usual resume review and interviews, winnowing the field down to two or three people. Then we use the profiles Amy brought to us. Most of us do not have the time or knowledge to ensure we’re making the best hiring decisions. These profiles are a great resource for Human Resources. I’d recommend them to any employer. I first came to know Amy when I worked at the Redmond Police Department. She introduced me to data-driven decision-making, getting beyond hunches or impressions from aprospective employee interview. The profiling tools she uses identify top-performance patterns. In my current position, we recently avoided a difficult situation with a potential hire through listening to Amy’s concern with the profile. The candidate had done so well in the interview that the top executive involved wanted to hire her immediately. Amy pointed to her low match for the job and advised further consideration. By the time we conducted additional interviews, it was clear this person was unsuitable for the job. These are very powerful assessment tools indeed. It soon became apparent after moving to my new job that I needed networking skills that weren’t necessary in my previous position. I asked Amy to coach me in that area and also to sharpen my presentation abilities. Within months I was promoted to Senior Project Manager, the first woman at GLY in that position and rising to it quicker than any other manager. There’s no doubt in my mind that Amy enabled me to be more effective at my job and gave me the tools to advance my career. I used Amy to help me prepare for the most important presentation of my 30-year career. It was an opportunity for me to show my company that I was CFO material based on what the accounting and finance departments had accomplished and the challenges they had overcome. Amy helped me organize my talk better, suggested ways to open and close it, and made everything more relevant and powerful, less technical. My audience was really involved; they could relate to what I was saying. I was the only speaker of the day to actually get applause. My boss told me “You knocked their socks off. You made me look good in front of my boss. Thank you. |
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