In today's highly competitive business environment, success depends on the effectiveness of individual leaders and their teams. DRI Consulting and Excel Enterprises offer a range of services designed to meet the unique leadership-development needs of diverse organizations and individuals.

The Executive Leadership Lab (ExLL) is a powerful and enjoyable process designed for use by senior-level managers who are expected to provide significant leadership within their organizations. Typically, participants are managers of other managers. They are generally responsible for major business segments or geographical areas. They are the people in the organization who want to enhance their leadership and management competence and are willing to invest some time and effort to do so.

• Focuses on growth and development and provides a vehicle for communication between you, your manager and others in the organization.
• Utilizes a comprehensive 360-degree assessment (based on predefined leadership and management competency areas, or those uniquely defined by your organization) to gather specific feedback from your boss, peers, direct reports, clients/customers and others.
• Helps you identify barriers to achieving and maintaining optimal effectiveness.
• Teaches you how to leverage your strengths and aggressively address your weaknesses as a leader.
• Combines one-to-one coaching, on-the-spot feedback, simulation and structured leadership labs that enable you to practice skills in settings that mirror real-world issues and challenges.
• Sets clearly-defined behavioral goals to produce a relevant and comprehensive learning contract that advances your personal and professional development.
• Engages you in a process that is impactful as well as fun.

In addition to Leadership and Management competency development, ExLL facilitates specific skill development in the following areas:

• Meeting management
• Peer feedback
• Utility of range of learning styles
• Development planning
• Purposeful questioning

The Executive Leadership Lab focuses on how to use your job as a vehicle for dynamic and ongoing professional development. Because the content is literally driven by you, the participant, and your developmental needs, ExLL represents a bridge between learning in the classroom and learning on the job.

ExLL is typically offered as a 3½ - 4 consecutive day program, or the equivalent of 35 hours. When necessary, there are options to customize other delivery formats. For example, 3½ days can be scheduled singularly over a one- to two- month period.

Preparation for this unique Leadership Lab requires you to complete approximately 3 hours of pre-work to gather feedback from raters, draft learning contracts, and review personal development history, career plans and leadership challenges.

Your investment in Executive Leadership Lab (ExLL) starts at $5150 per person, depending on customization, and includes:

• an intensive 35-hour laboratory
• individual meeting with coach to prepare for ExLL
• individual coaching sessions during ExLL
• individual coaching follow-up session after ExLL
• 360-degree assessment and feedback report
• ExLL manual and all lab materials
• DRIC’s Real World Leadership Toolbox^(SM)
• refreshments throughout ExLL

Additional ExLL consulting services available to you include:

• customization of ExLL to your organization’s needs
• training the trainer
• coaching the coach
• follow-up coaching for ExLL participants and their work teams.

"I am using the "tool box" to work through issues more strategically."
Lon Clemenson, VP Human Resources

"(The simulation) was a compressed experience that lasted less than 10 hours but it felt like the real world."
Eric Nilsson, VP and Manager of Corporate and Customized Fiduciary Services, as featured in City Business (Oct. 1998)

"The intensity of the course...is similar to the demands experienced daily on the job."

"The tools and skills are directly applicable to the real world."

"The actual challenges of my job in these 6 months have pretty closely paralleled the development opportunities identified at (ExLL)."

"The greatest! I learned that I need a coach and that I'm worth it!"

"(ExLL) provided me with the opportunity to identify areas where I can improve as a leader. Keeping the learning contract on hand reminds me of my goals on a regular basis."