Dennis Associates is a business consulting firm that provides personal and professional development programs. They focus on people and tailoring their programs to each client's specific needs. Their programs are designed to improve management effectiveness, motivate teams, and foster a culture of continuous business improvement. They offer various leadership, communication, and team-building courses that use experiential learning techniques.
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Our Approach
What makes Dennis Associates different in the world of Business
Consultants is our approach:
•Our focus is always on people in all our Programmes – people are your
greatest asset
• We get to know your business & culture so we can use relevant
examples & tailor our Programmes to your specific needs
• Our Programmes combine theory & experiential learning & are linked
back to your organisation
Your Benefits
Our Leading the Way development programmes deliver:
• Fun learning for you & your team in a friendly, relaxed environment
• Effective managers who are leaders of people
• Motivated & empowered teams
• Simple to use tools designed to immediately improve your
organisation
• Training that fits with your organisations needs
• Improvement in & growth of your operation
All our programmes are delivered by qualified consultants with a track
record of delivery in a wide range of fields
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“The only safe ship in a storm is leadership”
Faye Wattleton, nurse, administrator, author
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Leading the Way Programmes
Personal Effectiveness:
1. Time To Manage
2. Presenting With Pizzazz
3. Communicating Effectively
4. Win:Win Through Effective Influencing
Leadership Development:
1. Coaching For Performance
2. Simple Change Management
3. Leading The Way
4. Implementing A Business Improvement Culture
5. Leading & Facilitating Groups
6. Meetings Fit For Purpose
7. Creating Your Culture
8. Objectives – In Place & In Use
Team Development:
1. Resilient People / Teams
2. Motivating Teams
3. High Performing Teams
“I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a
lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep”
Talleyrand, French diplomat
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Time To Manage
Designed for
Managers & staff who:-
• feel overwhelmed by emails, meetings & their
workload
• feel out of control & are looking for a more efficient
way to work
• want to be better organised & work more efficiently
Benefits to you & your organisation
• A feeling of being in control
• More effective use of your time
• Ability to identify & focus on the important tasks
• A personal action plan to manage distractions & improve effectiveness
• Greater level of productive output
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Aims & Objectives
This 1 day programme will deliver:-
• Understanding why we become busy but not productive
• Resetting your brain & work patterns
• Taking control of things that distract you from the important tasks
• Prioritising
• Saying “No”
•Dealing with Time Bandits
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Presenting With Pizzazz
Designed for
Managers & staff who:-
• Routinely present and wish to create an impact
• Need to influence others using presentations
• Want to overcome nerves & increase their confidence
when presenting
• Don’t normally present & want to develop their skills
Benefits to you & your organisation
• Engaged audiences
• Effective presentations
• Able to get your message across better
• Increased confidence
• Targeted impact in meetings & formal presentations
• Greater chance of successful outcomes
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Tel: 07837964616 Email:
info@dennisassociates.co.uk
Aims & Objectives
This 1 day highly practical programme will deliver:-
• The power of stories and metaphors
• Attention grabbers
• Starting with a ‘bang’
• Leaving your audience asking for more
• Opportunities to practice & receive feedback
• Personal coaching on individual style & technique
• A brief overview of the use of Microsoft PowerPoint
• Structuring a Presentation
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Communicating Effectively
Designed for
Anyone who:-
• Needs to improve their interaction & communication
• Wants to operate more effectively within their team
• Has problems getting their point across
• Ends up in conflict when dealing with colleagues
Benefits to you & your organisation
• Greater Self awareness & confidence
• Improved Communication / Influencing skills
• Ability to manage conflict more effectively
• Ability to ‘flex’ your communication style to achieve outstanding results
• Better listeners
• Improved understanding of others viewpoints
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Tel: 07837964616 Email:
info@dennisassociates.co.uk
Aims & Objectives
This 1 day interactive programme will deliver:-
• Overview of the communication process
• Benefits of effective communication
• Barriers to effective communication & impact on relationships
• Identify your own personal communication style (using the SDI profiling
tool)
• Appreciation of the other different styles & how to interact effectively to
generate a positive outcome for all
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Win:Win Through Effective
Influencing
Designed for
Managers & staff who:-
• Want to effectively make their point
• Are looking to generate win-win outcomes
• Need to get people on board quickly
• Want to influence their managers, peers or colleagues
Benefits to you & your organisation
• Effective managers
• Greater understanding of peoples behaviours
• Able to manage resistance
• Strategies for generating win-win outcomes
• Ability to manage “upwards” as well as down
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Tel: 07837964616 Email:
info@dennisassociates.co.uk
Aims & Objectives
This 1 day programme will deliver:-
• What makes effective influencing
• Barriers & Issues to influencing
• Tools & techniques for creating win-win situations
• Use of the SDI profiling tool to help understand individuals frame of
reference & appreciate differences between people
• Effective use of data
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Coaching For Performance
Designed for
Managers who:-
• Seek to improve staff performance
• Need tools & techniques for handling difficult
conversations
• Want an effective approach for managing & developing
staff
• Want to enhance their leadership style
Benefits to you & your organisation
• Simple, effective Coaching tools that can be used by anyone at any time
• Improved staff performance
• Open & trusting culture
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Tel: 07837964616 Email:
info@dennisassociates.co.uk
Aims & Objectives
This 1 day highly practical programme will deliver:-
• Benefits of coaching
• Skills & traits of effective coaches
• A simple framework for coaching
• Dealing with performance issues
• Holding coaching conversations
• Integrating coaching into your culture
• Benefits of Coaching
• Creating a Coaching culture
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Simple Change Management
Designed for
Managers who:-
• Routinely lead change projects
• Want to successfully embed change & ensure the
changes are sustained
• Have to lead teams through significant change
Benefits to you & your organisation
• Successful Change project implementations
• People on board with change
• Faster & more effective implementations
• Better chance of sustaining the changes
• Creation of a change culture within the business
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Tel: 07837964616 Email:
info@dennisassociates.co.uk
Aims & Objectives
This practical 2 day programme will deliver:-
• An overview of the Change Management process
• Identifying the key elements of successful change
• Sponsorship & stakeholder management
• Communication strategies
• The human aspects of change – impact on people
• Creating a change Culture
• Overcoming resistance to change
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Leading The Way
Designed for
Managers who:-
• Are new to a leadership role
• Want their staff to behave differently
• Wish to change the culture within their team /
organisation
• Wish to gain respect from their teams
• Have little or no Leadership skills
Benefits to you & your organisation
• Managers are more effective Leaders
• Culture change to reflect your core values
• Individual action plans
• Teams follow their Leaders
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Tel: 07837964616 Email:
info@dennisassociates.co.uk
Aims & Objectives
This 1 day highly interactive programme will deliver:-
• What makes a manager an effective leader
• How behaviour creates culture
• Sending the right message to your staff
• Self reflection on individual behaviours & creation of a personal action
plan
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Implementing A Business
Improvement Culture
Designed for
Senior Managers who:-
• Have limited knowledge of Lean Sigma or Business
Improvement techniques
• Are looking for an integrated approach to improving
their organisation
• Want sustainable improvements / +ve culture shift
Benefits to you & your organisation
• Tools & techniques for creating an improvement culture
• Measurement systems in place to ensure proactive management of your
business rather than reactive management
• Effective coaching skills to engage & motivate staff
• Improved Business performance
• Increased momentum for change
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Tel: 07837964616 Email:
info@dennisassociates.co.uk
Aims & Objectives
This 3 day interactive programme will deliver:-
• Overview of Lean Sigma tools & techniques
• Performance Management systems & measures
• Effective Leadership
• Gemba Coaching
• Shadow of the Leader
• Understanding Accountability
• Successful implementation of sustainable change
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Leading & Facilitating Groups
Designed for
Managers & staff who:-
• Routinely facilitate small or large teams in problem
solving exercises, business meetings, Kaizen events etc
• Want a structured process to lead groups through to a
successful outcome
• Must facilitate multi disciplinary teams
Benefits to you & your organisation
• Events run more smoothly with successful outcomes
• Problems are solved in a structured way
• Individuals are involved at all stages; buy-in from stakeholders
• Confidence to run any size group or type of meeting
• A proven structured approach
• Clearly defined Action Plans created
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Tel: 07837964616 Email:
info@dennisassociates.co.uk
Aims & Objectives
This 1 day practical programme will deliver:-
• Challenges faced when facilitating a group
• Structured process for running meetings or problem solving
• Key skills of a facilitator
• Gaining consensus
• Series of tools to use for different scenarios
• Preparation pre-event
• Importance of Sponsorship & effective out briefs
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Meetings Fit For Purpose
Designed for
Managers & staff who:-
• Routinely chair meetings
• Want a more effective way of running meetings
• Want more productive meetings
• Wish to reduce the number of meetings they hold
Benefits to you & your organisation
• Fewer meetings
• More productive meetings
• Tools & techniques for effectively chairing meetings
• Fewer or shorter meetings
• Time available to use more productively elsewhere
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Tel: 07837964616 Email:
info@dennisassociates.co.uk
Aims & Objectives
This 1 day practical programme will deliver:-
• Alternatives to meetings
• Agenda’s, attendees & minutes
• Roles within a meeting
• Effective meeting behaviours – meeting charters
• Follow-up & actions
• Time keeping & effective meeting discipline
• Gemba approach to meetings
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Creating Your Culture
Designed for
Managers who:-
• Want to create a culture that reflects their / Company
values
• Want to inspire others to create +ve change
• Wish to create a working environment that inspires &
motivates
Benefits to you & your organisation
• A culture aligned to your core values
• Supportive behaviours clearly defined
• Techniques for engaging your staff & empowering them
• Motivated & creative staff
• An environment where change is embraced, implemented & sustained
www.dennisassociates.co.uk
Tel: 07837964616 Email:
info@dennisassociates.co.uk
Aims & Objectives
This 1 day interactive programme will deliver:-
• What creates your culture
• Identifying your values & desired culture
• How to create your desired culture
• Role of the Leader
• Effective behaviours that support your culture
• Monitoring & reviewing progress
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Objectives – In Place & In Use
Designed for
Managers & staff who:-
• Are responsible for setting objectives & performing
appraisals
• Want to see objectives actively progressed
• Desire a culture where things get done rather than just
talked about
Benefits to you & your organisation
• Challenging goals that are delivered
• A culture of ‘doing’
• Managers with their ‘finger on the pulse’
• Improved individual & business performance
• Standardised ways of working
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Tel: 07837964616 Email:
info@dennisassociates.co.uk
Aims & Objectives
This 1 day programme will deliver:-
• Overview of Objective setting – aligning goals, stretch objectives, staff
development
• Performing appraisals
• Coaching for performance
• Reviewing performance & giving feedback
• Managing poor performance
• Reinforcing acceptable standards
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Resilient People / Teams
Designed for
Anyone who:-
• Feels overwhelmed by their workload
• Is under pressure & feeling the effects of stress
• Manages a team that is struggling to function
effectively together
• Is about to enter a period of significant change
Benefits to you & your organisation
• People feel more in control
• Less stress for individuals & teams
• Resilient staff able to cope with change
• Motivated individuals & teams
• A supportive team working environment
www.dennisassociates.co.uk
Tel: 07837964616 Email:
info@dennisassociates.co.uk
Aims & Objectives
This 1 day practical programme will deliver:-
• A brief overview of stress & it’s causes
• Stress Management - strategies for dealing with stress
• A review of the individuals / teams main causes of work related stress
• Structured approach to resolving the key issues
• A personal / team action plan for dealing with root causes
This programme is designed to take a practical look at major causes of work
related stress & identify solutions to alleviate them using a structured
approach.
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Motivating Teams
Designed for
Managers & Leaders who:-
• Are new to managing teams
• Want to drive improved performance by team
• Need to inspire & empower their team
• Want to create self motivated teams
• Want to minimise conflict within teams & hence
maximise process focus
Benefits to you & your organisation
• Motivated & empowered teams
• Leaders equipped with skills to maximise the potential of their teams
• Effective communication strategies
• Techniques for minimising conflict within teams
• Improved morale and effective team working
Programme content
This 1-day programme will deliver:
• Effective leadership behaviours
• Creating High Performing Teams
• Motivation factors
• Team dynamics & understanding differences
• Team roles
• Effective team communication
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Tel: 07837964616 Email:
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High Performing Teams
Designed for
Managers, Leaders & staff who:-
• Wish to encourage “self directed teams”
• Wish to improve communication into & within teams
• Want to proactively drive a teams performance
• Want to use the individual strengths within their teams
Benefits to you & your organisation
• Motivated, happy & productive teams
• Team charter & effective ways of working
• Improved team & business performance
• Reduced interpersonal conflict
• Clearer roles, responsibilities & terms of reference
• Solid foundation for building Lean Sigma or other improvement regimes
Programme content
These ½ day or 1-day highly practical programmes will deliver:
• An overview of team dynamics
• Behaviours of High Performing Teams
• Barriers to effective team working
• Roles people adopt within teams
• Simple frameworks for teams to effectively achieve tasks
• Practical exercises to cement learning
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Tel: 07837964616 Email:
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If you wish to book one of our Leading the Way programmes
or would like to discuss your specific requirements then please
contact us at:
info@dennisassociates.co.uk
Or call us on
07837964616 or 07907906289
Prices start at £950 per day for up to 12 delegates
Our programmes can be run as stand-alone workshops or be
done in-house using clients real examples, issues & challenges
as part of the learning transfer.
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