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Client Reference Letters

FACE THE MUSIC was a wonderful experience! During the course of our four-day National Sales and Marketing Conference, FTM served as a catalyst to keep us energized, entertained and thinking about many of our challenges going forward. In addition to the fun of it all, we got many insights into the way we collaborate and communicate as an organization – as well as great ideas about what we can do to improve. Participants bonded, walls came down, creativity flourished and, collectively, we took the next step to go beyond our business blues. I was especially impressed by the skillful ways in which FTM facilitated the process of all 325 of us addressing "company culture" issues that emerged, real-time, at the conference. Well done!
Peter Jung
Senior Vice President, Sales
Moen Incorporated

MC&SP partnered with FTM to offer an evening activity during the delivery of their customized Transformational Leadership Series. The purpose of the evening was to create a team building activity that would allow participants to air real work issues in a fun, light-hearted way and to break down barriers cross-functionally and between organizational levels. We also wanted to have FUN. These leaders work hard and some evening levity was needed.

This all was achieved and more. Participants raved about the activity and loved seeing each other as "human". Any concerns I had about "would this work...and how will people feel about having to write and perform a song?" were completely gone after the first few minutes. It was a perfect complement to our program.

Valerie A. Corace
Director, Leadership Development
McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals

Bristol-Myers Squibb used Face The Music (FTM) for a team development/ team building activity with our Technical Operations Global Human Resources Organization. We were gathered for an important 3-day business update and wanted to capitalize on a rare opportunity to bring together our employees from all over the world.

Since I had attended a previous FTM workshop at an Organizational Development conference, I knew that their musical teambuilding would provide us with an excellent way to make connections and build bridges among our diverse team.

Face The Music (FTM) did not disappoint us. The music was uplifting and provided a forum to recognize both joint successes and common experiences. It was an energizing, fun, and highly experiential session that easily brought together people from many different backgrounds, cultures, and even languages. The session was so well received that people are still talking about it.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to providing a great program, the FTM team was very easy to work with, flexible, and responsive to the needs of both senior leaders and participants. They customized the program to our needs and worked with us on all the set up details so we were sure things would go off without a hitch. I would highly recommend this program and this team for future team building sessions.

Barbara Keen, Ph.D.
Director, Organization Development
Bristol-Myers Squibb

It's hard to believe that it was almost a year ago when we used 'Face The Music' as one of our team building exercises at our Consumer Marketing Offsite meeting. Please accept my apologies for getting this' letter of appreciation' out to you so late.

Paul, I can't even begin to tell you how much fun this team building exercise project was for everyone. I had all of the attendees fill out a questionnaire and the one question I asked was "Did you find 'Face The Music' to be a valuable team building exercise?" and 98% responded with "YES and FUN TOO".

Thanks to you and your colleagues of "FTM" our off site would not have been a success!

I hope that we will have the opportunity to work together again in the near future.

Janine Iofrida
Event Planner

As you consider using Face The Music for your organization, I thought you would appreciate access to a testimony of a Face The Music Client.

Ernst & Young's Pacific South West Area hired Face The Music (FTM) to help welcome and integrate its newly promoted partners into the practice. FTM offered a unique and fun way to effectively create a team environment and address change management issues through a blues format.

I must admit our partners were skeptical, but because I personally experienced FTM in a previous workshop, I did not hesitate to put my reputation on the line.

The executives' feedback on the program was overwhelmingly positive. In fact, all partners, both "old" and "new" actually participated in the experience.

One important success factor worth mentioning is the accessibility FTM provides to ensure the program is fully customized to meet the needs of the audience. I was impressed with the flexibility and overall professionalism of FTM. It was a pleasure to work with this cutting edge company.

Janice Smith
Leadership Development Consultant
Ernst & Young

On behalf of the Pacific Coast Area Leadership Team of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, we want to thank you for your participation in our Retreat for Excellence last week in Santa Barbara.

Your presentation was the icing on the cake, the best of the best! The response from our group included things like "this is the best event I've ever attended at Wells Fargo", "more fun than we could have ever imagined", " we left on a High" and on Monday when everyone returned to work "everyone is in a great mood and still singing".

Thank you for the energy and enthusiasm that you gave our great team. After a very difficult year of the "manager blues", "too many changes blues" and various other "blues", the Face the Music Team Building did just that – rebuilt our team and gave us the excitement to make this year Excellent... Nothing Less.

Thank you again, for your outstanding contribution to our Retreat for Excellence.

Marty Thomas
Area Administrator

    
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