'Studerized' Professionals Lavish Praise on 'Common-sense' Seminar
Publication Name: Pensacola News Journal
Published Date: 12/02/2006
Some flew from as far away as 2,000 miles. Others drove less than 20 minutes across the Pensacola Bay Bridge. A New York state hospital sent 45 employees. A North Carolina medical center sent 16. By plane or car, from near and far, more than 300 people representing organizations from 30 states and Canada, attended The Studer Group's "Take You and Your Organization to the Next Level" seminar this week to listen, to learn -- and to laugh.
Before I even pulled out my notebook for the first interview, I overheard some people talking during a break on Wednesday about the sold-out seminar.
"Whatcha think?" one man asked another.
"Everything I hoped for and more," the other man said.
The first man: "It's just plain old common-sense stuff, but it works when you put it in place."
That about sums up the session: Plain and simple. Not to mention informative, educational, inspirational and entertaining.
The two-day, eight-hour seminars mostly were to teach, train and transform people in the health-care field in order to make their companies better.
But the message and the methods are for anyone.
What eager and excited employees couldn't use strategies, tactics and tools to take themselves and their organization to the next level?
Roddey Gettys III is a bona fide, baptized "Studerized" believer. He even wore a Studer-branded Firestarter polo shirt as proof.
The chief operating officer of Easley, S.C.'s Palmetto Health Baptist, Gettys attended his first seminar in Atlanta in 2004. Four seminars later, he tells everyone within earshot how The Studer Group's principles transformed his mediocre hospital into an excellent one.
"Nothing has ever given me hope for the future like the Studer principles," he said. "It's an investment with unlimited returns."
The Studer Group has taken seminar training to another level.
Founder Quint Studer has carved a niche in health-care training that is unmatched. He knows how to make people feel good about themselves, about what they do, how they do it and how they train others to do it, too.
"We are a nation that can identify what's wrong," Studer said. "We need to pay attention to what's right."
Energizing and engaging, Studer captivates an audience. He dropped names and anecdotes like fluid dripping in an IV.
Each morning before his show began, he met, mingled, chatted and cajoled with his guests like longtime friends. He signed every book in sight. Some slipped him mementoes; others passed him family pictures.
With the style of a Southern preacher, Studer uses his Northern charm and civility to inspire and inform. He doesn't want to be called a motivational speaker, but he moves people to action. He's not a stand-up comedian, but he leaves his audience in stitches.
His sessions are as entertaining and inspirational as they are informative and educational.
For a person with a hearing problem, Studer listens well -- and talks even better.
Randy Courtney of Apple Valley, Calif., traveled 2,000 miles to listen to what Studer had to stay.
"This is something that affects my life and something I can take back to my job," said Courtney, a food and nutrition supervisor for St. Mary Medical Center. "Our hospital system believes in what he's doing."
He made a believer out of me, too.
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