ELI Leadership Development Programs
Programs offered by ELI are developed around the following key modules which are tailored to meet the leadership needs of specific agencies and individuals.

• Managing a High Performance Organization
  Leadership requires an understanding of how to design organizations and to manage structures, processes, and personnel for high performance, including such techniques as organization design, team work, goal setting, strategic planning, organizational development, and values management.

• Managing Technology and Information for Decision-making
  Leadership requires the conceptual and quantitative skills necessary to undertake policy and program development, implementation, and evaluation within the environment of public and nonprofit organizations.

• Managing Scarce Financial Resources
  Increasingly scare resources require leaders to have an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of various revenue streams as well as how to manage these scare resources through a variety of budgeting techniques that achieve maximum productivity and cost effectiveness.

• The Political and Legal Context
  As the traditional boundaries among the public, nonprofit, and private sectors continue to undergo re-examination, leadership will require a sophisticated understanding of the legal and political environment where administrators carry out their work within the market economy and the American system of divided and separated powers and interest group pluralism.

• Human Resources Management
  Successful leaders possess a deep understanding of the behavioral aspects of managing human resources and the legal and policy considerations governing hiring, promotion, evaluation, grievances, discrimination, and collective bargaining.

• Cultivating the Art of Reflective Practice
  Perhaps the most important quality that distinguishes leaders from managers is the capacity to think strategically and to reflect critically on one's decisions over time.  ELI draws on a variety of research to cultivate this important habit of reflective practice.