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Fenn & Associates
Building Teams One Person At A Time
Executive Leadership in a High Involvement Culture
Introduction to a Team Environment
Operation Basics of an Effective Team
Successful Self-Managing Teams
Products
In addition to the services provided in team development, leadership development and facilitation, Fenn & Associates partners with the Insight Institute and Educational Management Solutions to provide other valuable solutions.
Insight Institute
Insight Institute - partners to provide personality assessments and team building modules to help develop individuals and teams.
Personality Assessments
The most popular assessment is the Insight Inventory. This comprehensive, fully validated instrument facilitates self-awareness of personal strengths and areas for improvement. It explores an individual's work style and personal style in the following areas:
- Getting your way - Indirect to Direct
- Responding to people - Reserved to Outgoing
- Pacing activity - Urgent to Steady
- Dealing with details - Unstructured to Precise
Understanding yourself and others results in improved personal effectiveness at work and home. Other assessments available from the Insight Institute are:
- Teaming Up with Insight
- Insight "360" Style Feedback
- Selling with Insight
- Student Teen Insight
Team Building Modules
An organization will find these twelve interactive team development modules highly effective for building the specific team skills needed for high performance. These modules can be ordered individually from the Insight Institute.
| Team Building Modules | 1. Investing in Teamwork | 2. Evaluating Team Effectiveness | 3. Defining the Team Mission | 4. Setting Team Goals | 5. Taking Action of Goals | 6. Building on Personality Strengths | 7. Establishing Team Rules | 8. Clarifying Team Roles | 9. Solving Problems Together | 10. Enhancing Team Creativity | 11. Making Team Decisions | 12. Improving Team Meetings |
Educational Management Solutions (EMS)
EMS - partners to provide human resource consulting services with school districts across North America.
EMS Mission - provides practical, cost-effective consulting and software solutions for human resource operations to maximize overall efficiency and effectiveness of school district HR functions.
EMS has combined experience in school personnel management, compensation planning, employment regulations, benefits administration, employee relations and workers compensation with leading edge computer technology and consulting services. EMS provides solutions that address a myriad of complex HR issues faced by school districts today.
| Consulting Solutions* | Software Solutions* |
| • Comprehensive HR function Reviews | • Job description customization |
| • Compensation Studies | • Benefits administration |
| • Job Description Development | • HRIS administration |
| • Benefits and Risk Management Reviews | • Performance appraisal on-line system |
| • In-services and presentations | • Substitute acquisition |
| • Leadership development and team development for school administrators and district/building teams |
• Professional Development administration |
| • Custom consulting and support |
* Contact Fenn & Associates and/or EMS for further information on any of these consulting or software solutions.