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LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FROM THE INSIDE OUT

The ELE is for senior and emerging leaders who know in their bones that how they show up is the most important part of leadership. This program challenges participants to look deeply into their strengths and own them. Taking on the frames of Self, Team and World this experience helps each leader understand what their job is for each of these domains and how best to help others accept themselves, align around purpose, bond and achieve the highest impacts within a clear-eyed view of reality.

EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW

The Extraordinary Leadership Experience (ELE) is a transformational program designed to expand how you see leadership and strengthen your ability to lead with clarity, confidence, and purpose. More than a traditional training, ELE invites deep personal growth—helping you understand who you are as a leader, where you want to go, and what may be holding you back. We provide a supportive environment, along with practical frameworks and tools, to guide your unique leadership journey.

Through five immersive retreats, real-world application, and coaching support, you will:

• Deepen your awareness of how you show up as a leader

• Embrace your strengths and grow through your challenges

• Build alignment and buy-in through clear purpose and goals

• Strengthen team performance through connection and accountability

• Develop a grounded understanding of what’s happening within and around your team

• Clarify the impact you want to create and how to lead your team toward it

PROGRAM COMPONENTS

Retreats
Five retreats guide you through a clear leadership arc: leading self, leading teams, and leading with impact—culminating in integration and action.

Field Work
Between retreats, you’ll apply key concepts in real-world settings through structured assignments that reinforce learning through action.

1:1 Coaching
You’ll receive three individual coaching sessions focused on your personal growth, challenges, and progress.

Group Coaching
Two follow-up group sessions provide space for shared learning, accountability, and continued development.

COMMITMENT & EXPECTATIONS

ELE is an interactive, experiential program that requires active participation. You’ll be expected to engage fully, contribute to a safe learning environment, and follow through on all program elements, including field work and coaching sessions.Item description

The Extraordinary Teams Inventory (ETI) is an evidence-based and statistically sound instrument to assess a team in 10 areas of teaming practices. Based on the original research of Geoffrey Bellman and Kathleen Ryan in their book Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results and continuing research by Kevin Coray with now over thousands of people and hundreds of teams, the ETI provides information and advice about a team’s performance in these 10 areas. Using the ETI in a team coaching setting stimulates team conversations about what is working well and what might need to be improved.

The ETI, coupled with the Extraordinary Teams model, is unique in ways that make it the premier team assessment in today’s marketplace. Unlike other team models and instruments, it uses an appreciative approach that allows teams to discover what’s right and not just what’s wrong. It is a psychometrically sound instrument based on extensive qualitative and quantitative research. It is user-friendly for those who take the assessment and those who help interpret the results. It is a cost-effective way to regularly measure how the team is doing in specific areas of teaming behavior.

As a Certified ETI Practitioner, you will be able to:

• Assist a team with the process of administering the assessment.

• De-brief the findings with the team leader and the team.

• Offer consultation/coaching that focuses on designing and monitoring team action plans to become Extraordinary Teams.

• Expand your coaching/consulting practice with a new tool and learning.

This six-session virtual certification program is delivered by Extraordinary Teams Partnership members with extensive ETI experience. This group of professionals will support your learning through regular contact throughout the program. In addition to learning about the technical aspects of the instrument, you will discover how to make the assessment experience a timely and relevant team development experience for your clients.

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Steeped in the deep practices of extraordinary leadership and team behavior, our ETP coaches engage with teams, groups, dyads, and individuals, to bring your performance and presence up to a new level.

• Team or Group Coaching: We work with teams and groups to bring a coaching approach to team development: we listen deeply, we help you see yourselves more completely, we get clear on goals and align on purpose, and ultimately, we help you have conversations that truly matter. We often use the Extraordinary Teams Inventory (ETI)—a great tool to accelerate team and individual growth.

• Individual Leadership Coaching: We work with leaders from all levels of the organization to discover their strengths, build awareness for how they show up, and identify areas for profound learning, personal growth, and action steps needed to move toward extraordinary leadership.

What we do for teams, we do for teams of teams: organizations. We’ll consult with you to reshape the strategy, structures, or systems in your organization to create extraordinary results. In the positive extreme, this opens the entire culture to redesign and transformation.

We are excited about the possibilities of this kind of work. Our starting point often includes some combination of our other offerings as part of a larger organizational intervention. Always we begin with deep listening to our client, understanding the organization’s purpose and context, and assessing the current state. We intentionally engage people throughout the organization to shape the direction and activities within these consultations. Nice!

Examples of our consulting engagements:

• Redesigning Culture to Yield Extraordinary Results. Get specific about the values and assumptions that underlie the culture that are necessary to support exemplary teaming. Identify the key leverage points and necessary changes to shift from the existing culture to the culture that holds the promise of the future.

• Accelerating Change in Strategy, Structure, and Systems with Extraordinary Teams. Undertake a careful review of the organization’s business strategies, structures, and systems. Do they support extraordinary teams or not? Identify key changes that need to be made to support extraordinary teaming and leadership.

• Making Teams the Focus of Performance Across the Organization. Consider your organization’s performance goals and strategies. What teams and teams-of-teams are critical for success? Examine the alignment among these teams and their leadership. Make necessary changes to support high-level alignment and streamlined workflow.

• Building Leadership Capacity in Individual Leaders and Leadership Teams. The context for leadership development is two-fold: the organization’s goals and its desired-culture of extraordinary teaming. Identify core competencies and personal characteristics needed for effective leadership. Through workshops and coaching, support leaders and teams of leaders as they grow and change.