to help themselves,
to release and realise more of their potential
Dennis Martin Consultants
Contact us and see how we can work together and create a path to the future that you, your people and your business deserve.
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Our Seven Values
In line with our VALUES below, we only begin working with you AFTER:
A no obligation, zero cost conversation has been held outlining your perceptions of your mentoring and / or organisation development needs and whether our approach matches them and your culture (both 'real' (i.e. at present) and potential (i.e. your desired future and realised possibilities).
As a result, either nothing happens or we will send you a PROPOSAL of how we may be able to help, what will be involved and how much it will cost.
As a result, either nothing happens or we make agreed changes to the proposal or we agree to work together.
You're in control, the choice is yours what happens next?, of course.
If we work together, then the 'magic' begins in your business and your people and YOU and ME.
For us, we like and use these definitions of 'values':
values are the beliefs people have, especially about what is right and wrong and what is most important in life, that control their behaviour
and
values are the principles that help you to decide what is right and wrong, and how to act in various situations
WHY DO WE LIKE THEM?
Because they are clear and simple and common sense.
That makes it hard to 'dodge' the meaning or 'bend' our values when it might be convenient but it would be the wrong thing to do.
It's very handy to have such clarity and simplicity when in grey areas of right and wrong or in a complex adaptive system, where it is unknowable and unpredictable in terms of outcomes, until they emerge or just happen.
What Are Our Seven Values?
Firstly, we will work collaboratively with you in everything we do.
We won’t do anything TO or FOR you and your people, we’ll do it WITH you and your people and we'll help you to help yourself so you won’t become dependent on us (or anyone else)
Second, we will work transparently with you – no secrets or hidden agendas; no mystique or unnecessary jargon; no 'hidden' costs just open communications designed to achieve high levels of mutual trust and respect, ownership, involvement, performance and self-responsibility by people
Third, we will work with you as partners.
In particular, we’ll work together to achieve synergistic results through effective application as a team.
We won’t leave you to struggle in applying learnings to the real situation, we’ll be there with you to help people move up their learning and experience curves
Fourth, we will work with you holistically.
That is, we’ll view your organisation, and its people, as an integrated whole.
We’ll make sure that we help you deal with, and develop, the connections needed to make it all work smoothly
Fifth, we’ll help you, and your people, to do the right things, and get the results demanded by performance indicators, in a self-sustaining, and continuously improving way.
With 30 years experience under our belts we know that this is not always easy to do.
Running a business is a complex adaptive system with many interacting variables making it impossible to predict or know what might happen, until it does.
And we know and understand that it can get lonely at the top sometimes
Sixth, we’ll work with you to value differences and use them to discover new effective approaches.
We’ll be trusting and trustworthy.
We expect to challenge you and to be challenged by you.
We expect to support you and to be supported by you
Seventh, we won’t tell you what you want to hear – we’ll share with you what we believe you need to hear. It is the right and respectful thing to do, we believe
We’ll say what we mean and mean what we say.
If we preach at all, we’ll only preach what we practice.
In addition, we’ll ask you to appraise our performance openly; share your honest feedback; and help us to learn how best we can help you – because our bespoke approach will be tailor-made to your specific needs and how these may change.
Importantly, we'll focus on your context – we have over 30 years’ experience of mentorship and organisational development and we understand how to work with you to translate our innovative approaches to match your specific circumstances.
We will always help you to help yourself because it is your business, not ours, and you will be working with it and improving it long after we leave.
Please click any or all of the links below if you want more information:
* bespoke and different - how we differ in our bespoke approach
* The Pfizer Tablet Plant Story - an outstanding record-breaking Irish project
* The Lubrizol Story - we won a UK National Training Award for our approach described by judges as: 'revolutionary and inspiring'
We've covered a lot of ground on this page and I just want to THANK YOU for visiting my web site and reading this page. Your attention is much appreciated.
I hope you found the page as worthwhile and interesting reading it as I did writing it.
Kindest regards,
Dennis
I am Dennis Martin, born and bred in Yorkshire in the U.K., and in the last 30 years I have worked with clients in the U.K., Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, France, and with projects in U.S.A., Israel and Turkey.
I am proud of the fact that with many of our clients we have worked with them for a long time...
One employee commented: “I am sure in my mind that the training and new skills that we learned from Dennis made the transition in changing the organization to the way we work in multi-tasked, self-managed teams possible in a relatively short time.”
Taken from The Lubrizol Story independent report
Thank you Dennis for your help, positivity, support and mentoring during the very successful turnaround of our Lubrizol business. Our situation was dire and after a 40% downsizing so was morale.
Tony Strong, CEO,
Adare SEC,
Leicester, England
Another said: “For the first time ever, the entire workforce was assembled in one room and given the opportunity to understand the business, where it was heading and how each person could make a valued contribution to its ongoing success.”
Taken from The Lubrizol Story independent report