Élan Training Formula

In the traditional style of learning managers and leaders had to sit through droning lectures in the hope of gaining enough from the day to make the loss of on-the-job time worthwhile.

The Élan training formula is interactive and experiential. Élan engages participant in dialogue and activities that reinforce the ideas and concepts delivered by the facilitatorin the mini-lessons. Participants are invited to discuss what they have learned and apply the learning to real-time challenges they are facing in the workplace.

The model illustrates the process of change participants experience in any given training program.Here is how it works:

Participants enter a training program with ‘unconscious habits’. They either lack knowledge, skills, competencies or their words and/or actions may be incongruent with the vision and values of the company.

Through mini-lecture, discussion and a series of interactive experiences participants have an insight into the gap between their practices and high performance leadership practices. This insight brings conscious awareness to an area that the manager might have been unaware of prior to this time.

This leads to new choices that were not previously available. With two or three more behaviors available the manager is not stuck in old outmoded behaviors, but is able to choose from a number of appropriate styles or actions. This leadsto greater behavioral flexibility.

The result of having new choices is that new decisions are now available and participants are given an opportunity to commit to new actions.Ultimately, through feedback and follow-up, new behaviors begin to show themselves at work.

The result is that high performance leadership practices begin to show up in your managers’ practices.