Tim Watts Associates

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TWA People Development Ltd was incorporated in April 2008, developing from its predessor, Tim Watts Associates, which had been founded in April 2004, to provide specialist services for the development of people in the workplace.

Tim Watts

Tim Watts is MD and he has held senior management positions in Operations and Human Resources settings during his 25-year career span in the papermaking industry.

As a director within one of the key manufacturing trade associations he has led the development of training programmes for senior operators and front line managers, headed up the health & safety function and been a member of the national negotiating committee, negotiating pay and conditions, for the sector, with the joint trade unions.

He held the post of Chief Executive of the Paper Industry National Training Organisation during the transition from NTOs to Sector Skills Councils and consequently is well versed in the UK's learning and skills infrastructure.

In addition he was lead negotiator for the tri-partite team developing European safety standards, EN 1034, for the design and manufacture of paper making and finishing machines, working in collaboration with many other European nations.

The HSC/E featured heavily in Tim's time as Head of Health & Safety, assuming the mantel at a time when the combined efforts of regulator, trades unions and employers alike were engaged in radically redefining what was an acceptable risk for machine operators. As a consequence of the momentum generated, safeguarding of moving machinery was delivered and major and fatal accidents began a significant downward trend and this has continued to this day. The key to the sea change in approach to risk management was the involvement of all parties. Employee engagement continues to be the hallmark of the 21st Century papermaking industry.

As a technical specialist, operator, supervisor and manager, Tim has worked in large and small mills, manufacturing and finishing grades from across the papermaking spectrum. He was a trade union appointed representative whilst a supervisor.

Tim trained in TQM early in his career and has benefited from consistently applying the tools and techniques since that time. The same can be said for behavioural safety, having been selected as a team trainer for Du Pont STOP in the early nineties. His early exposure to structured problem solving with Kepner-Tregoe (K-T) in the mid-eighties has profoundly influenced the way he continues to conduct his business.

He is an accredited Personal and Corporate Coach, a certified Master Practitioner of NLP and holds a NEBOSH General Certificate. He was a member of the government sponsored team who developed Occupational Standards for Coaching and Mentoring, a project managed by ENTO.

Tim is a founder member of the Institute of Leadership and Management and a member of the Ashridge Alumni Association.

Tim is co-author of the forthcoming book, "The Strength of Trust".

To discuss your unique people development needs within your organisation call 01227 379920 or 07834 712092 or e-mail Tim Watts.


To discuss your unique people development needs within your organisation call 01227 379920 or 07834 712092 or e-mail Tim Watts.

Gloria Austin

Gloria Austin, co-facilitator of The Personal Power Workshops, is a Legal and Business Consultant with a background in Social Biology. She is the author of 3 books on Cross-Cultural Communication published by Oxford University Press and is certified in Cultural Transformation. She is a qualified teacher and experienced trainer. She speaks fluent Italian and has a good working knowledge of Spanish and French.

She has extensive experience in Transition Management, Mediation, Cultural Transformation, Project Management and Executive and Management training.

She strongly believes that change is a natural and healthy part of our life which if embraced with the right mind set can be an exciting and rewarding adventure.

Her special interests are in NVC, Spiral Dynamics and Adaptive Intelligence.

To discuss your unique people development needs within your organisation call 01227 379920 or 07834 712092 or e-mail Tim Watts.

Barry Bennett

Barry is a qualified mechanical engineer. His career began as an Industrial Engineer - involving research and development, design and installation of commercial refrigeration and air conditioning plant. He joined the Wiggins Teape Group in 1976 where ultimately he had responsibility for management training & development across the group. Throughout 1985, Barry was responsible for all personnel issues during the merger of two paper merchants, which involved redundancy, recruitment, industrial relations, relocation, organisation restructuring, training and development, etc.

He left Wiggins Teape (now Arjo Wiggins) and with his colleague, Peter Robbins, formed Target Training in 1988.

Barry’s extensive client base includes such well-known names as Aylesford Newsprint, Smurfit Townsend Hook, Georgia Pacific GB, Henkel, Kruger Tissue Industrial Ltd, Sony Europe, Orange and Henley Management College. Barry has helped a number of organisations through a period of culture change and has been influential in helping companies work towards the Investors in People standard. He has worked with management, supervision and staff to develop appropriate attitudes and behaviours leading to increased empowerment and performance. He has guided and supported senior executives and managers through restructuring exercises.

To discuss your unique people development needs within your organisation call 01227 379920 or 07834 712092 or e-mail Tim Watts.

Mike Burge

Mike graduated with an Honours degree in Economics and by 28 was the youngest director of Hodder & Stoughton Publishers, working closely with authors such as Jeffrey Archer, John Le Carre and Stephen King. He moved into consultancy work and blue chip clients included BP, ChevronTexaco, BOC, SG Hambros, Intel, Bovis LendLease, EDF Energy and BAA’s London Heathrow's Terminal 5 project.

Mike’s extensive experience includes being a Managing Director of StepStones, a management development consultancy which also provides team and individual coaching to senior managers and executives in blue chip organizations to help them address key personal, team and corporate strategic issues.

Mike offers great experience of multinational business development, sales and marketing management experience at plc and senior director level. During his career, Mike has worked in a variety of business sectors and is very conversant with the challenges that face leaders and managers. He is a fully accredited coach, an accredited NLP Practitioner and holds various diplomas in Business and Performance Coaching. He has also in his consulting career been part of the team that won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade in 2004.

To discuss your unique people development needs within your organisation call 01227 379920 or 07834 712092 or e-mail Tim Watts.

Janis A Rees

Janis is an enthusiastic, 'high energy' trainer as anyone who has been on one of her courses will affirm. Having worked as a training manager for a large 'blue chip' organisation and as a consultant within an independent training and development company, Janis is now an independent training and development consultant who works with organisations throughout the private sector - both in the UK and overseas. She designs and tutors on performance management, interpersonal skills, personal and team
development programmes. She works regularly with psychometric instruments and is an accredited user of FIRO-B, LSI (Life Styles Inventory, Verax Limited) and holds the Certificate of Competence Occupational Testing (Level A) for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Jan is also an NLP Practitioner and holds a 'Diploma in Performance Coaching' gained from the nfe in association with Newcastle College. She specialises in helping people improve their communication and interpersonal skills and provides extremely popular and successful interactive team-building days.

Her current and recent client list is too long to include here but just a few are Lloyds/TSB; Experian; Marconi plc; Volvo Car UK Ltd.; Capital One; Vision Express and Rolls Royce plc.

To discuss your unique people development needs within your organisation call 01227 379920 or 07834 712092 or e-mail Tim Watts.

Dan Terry

Dan Terry is a training consultant and visionary coach with more than 15 years experience of developing unique and compelling solutions for challenges in the workplace. He is a Master Practitioner of NLP and an accredited coach.

His approach is process orientated, not content orientated, which simply means that the techniques can be applied to any set of behaviours in any environment. By eliciting the strategies of behaviour he shows how it is possible to model excellence and to install new strategies to effect both remedial and generative changes. This allows individuals to evolve and flourish so that the people and teams they work with are ready to change when the situation demands it. Dan believes that without flexibility to change in today's world we face limited choices. Having many more options about the way we behave allows a good company to become a GREAT company.

Dan’s lively and intuitive style has made him a very popular trainer in both the manufacturing sector and the private sector and his clients regularly re-use his services. He continually seeks to break boundaries and one of his most recent assignments has been to present the power of NLP to Reading and Bolton Wanderers football clubs.

To discuss your unique people development needs within your organisation call 01227 379920 or 07834 712092 or e-mail Tim Watts.


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