The Elite Leadership Circle, is a program designed to provide a comprehensive, process-based, individualized leadership training program that produces measurable results for organizations, groups and individuals. Each circle consist of 10 to 20 participants who meet monthly to learn our proven approach to leadership development and discuss other relevant leadership topics. Each monthly meeting is 90 minutes total, with 30 minutes for networking with snacks and 60 meetings for training, based on this monthly schedule.

The Elite Leadership Training Program is a personalized, continuously-improving leadership development program based on an individual’s innate qualities, strengths and abilities that is practiced every day while incorporating regular reflection and coaching. The leadership development approach used in this program is based on decades of research and follows the Elite Leadership Process™. It is designed to be learned once and adaptable to almost any situation the leader or potential leader may encounter, while also producing measurable results.

To provide quality instruction and ongoing coaching, each program circle is limited to 20 participants (10 minimum).

Book

The program uses the book, “The Path to Elite Level Leadership,” authored by Professor Bryan Bennett. This book walks through the steps in the Elite Leadership Process™ and provides a firm foundation for leadership improvement.

The program also includes the “Elite Leadership Training Practice Workbook” for use during the course to document participants’ leadership improvement journey both during the program and afterwards. As the process is continuously-improving, participants will want to return to the workbook to make adjusts in their assessments, update their leadership vision, documents their reflections and record coaching session outcomes.

Assessments & Reassessments

The program begins with a strengths assessment using the Gallup Strengths assessment to help the leader better understand their individual strengths. The program continues with our proprietary Leadership IMPACT Assessment™ tool which analyzes how the participant embraces various leadership behaviors.

Participants will complete scheduled assessments and reassessments with one-on-one debriefings over the course of the program to track their leadership improvement and identify any challenges they may be facing in embracing the leadership training.

Training

The interactive training course is in-person and delivered over 12-months to allow the participants an opportunity to incorporate the learnings from each core module. Overall, the course objectives are as follows:

1. Compare and contrast the differences between elite leadership and other programs.
2. Explain the 5-steps in the Elite Leadership Process™ and how they interrelate to create better leaders.
3. Construct a personal leadership plan based on an assessment of the individual’s innate qualities & abilities.
4. Formulate a self-reflection plan that incorporates individual quiet-time and environment assessments.
5. Identify current and potential mentors and coaches and plan for regular encounters.

Coaching

Each program includes formal one-on-one debriefing coaching sessions after the completion of each scheduled assessment and reassessment to track the participant’s progress. Additionally, unlimited informal coaching is available via e-mail or phone anytime during the program.

Leadership Discussions / Presentations

Each circle meets monthly for in-person leadership presentations and discussions led by Professor Bennett. These sessions are designed to introduce and reinforce the concepts while providing additional examples of their applications in real leadership situations.

Networking

An important aspect of the program is the peer networking before and after each training session. Participants will be able to talk to others about leadership situations they may have encountered, as well as talk to the instructor or guest speaker for some additional insights.