Exceptional Leadership and Team Development
Since 1996, we have served the leadership development, team development and facilitation needs of small, medium and large companies. The common thread of our clients is the desire to be a high performance, high involvement organization and live the values necessary for this to happen.
Our Unique Approach - Competitive Advantage
We believe organizations improve productivity and profitability when the following beliefs are imbedded in their culture:
- Teams are valued and empowered to make decisions and solve problems.
- High involvement behaviors are lived and rewarded.
- Exceptional leadership and effective management are balanced appropriately by every leader.
- Human creativity and innovation are encouraged and celebrated.
- Employees are treated as important assets that grow in value with experience and continued development.
We approach serving clients from the following perspective:
We keep the total organization in mind.
Open Systems - Every organization is comprised of system elements that must interact in healthy ways for the company to behave in a healthy manner. An organization performs just like a human with a brain, heart, lungs, kidney, stomach, and liver. If all these human parts are individually and collectively healthy, the person will likely be living a healthy life.
Similarly, if the organization elements of corporate strategy, structure, work processes, people processes and customer relationships are working well individually and collectively, the corporation has the best chance of being healthy, productive and profitable.
Customization focused on client needs.
There are definitely principles, content and tools we want to share with our clients. Given that clients are different, we will conduct an up-front analysis of customer needs and customize materials and session activities appropriately.
High Involvement Beliefs.
The following beliefs dominate the themes of all our resources and training sessions.
- Leaders gain power by sharing power
- Customer focus in everything we do
- Continuous improvement
- Employee development
- Reward the right behaviors
- Provide constructive feedback on a daily basis
- Flat organizations best serve the internal and external needs of others
- Information sharing should be free flowing up-down-across the organization
About Fenn and Associates
Fenn & Associates was established in 1996 by its President, R. Daniel Fenn. Mr. Fenn has 20+ years experience in organization development with a proven track record of helping clients with improved leadership behaviors and employee engagement, increased productivity and business results by individuals and teams, reduced operational costs and higher productivity. Clients have included Monsanto, Kansas Farm Bureau, DST Systems, Allied Signal, and school districts across the country.
Mr. Fenn has consulted internationally with over 500 teams; and led over 400 training sessions for management and front-line employees on Team Development, Leadership Development and Facilitation. Further customization can be developed on topics such as motivation, conflict resolution, performance management and feedback practices, problem solving and decision making, and interpersonal skills.
Fenn & Associates delivers customized leadership and team development sessions based on best practices research in interactive group sessions.