What Can We Do For You?
ETD works with individuals, teams, and agencies to deliver solutions tailored to meet specific needs. By leveraging multiple partnerships with higher education, private vendors, and individual consultants, we are able to provide cost-effective, personalized opportunities to define and meet your goals and objectives.
Customized Courses
Any ETD course can be customized to meet your needs and delivered to your workplace. Visit the Skills Development, Leadership Development, and our Course Finder pages for a full list of courses available for customized delivery. If you have a specific topic in mind and don’t see it listed on our website, contact us. ETD has certified consultants on staff along with master contracts with a multitude of vendors and higher education partners to bring in the experts you need.
Zenger Folkman 360 Leadership Assessment
This one-on-one session with a Zenger Folkman certified consultant provides participants with a confidential 360 assessment feedback report to measure individual strengths and evaluate areas for further development. During the session, a coach will provide an overview of the Extraordinary Leader™ and the strengths-based approach to leadership development. Participants learn Zenger Folkman’s unique cross-training approach to build strengths and create a customized leadership development plan to increase leadership effectiveness.
Conference Workshops & Breakout Sessions
Our staff has an expertise in a variety of topics spanning leadership development, team building, talent and performance management, effective presentations, coaching and feedback, workforce planning, succession planning, knowledge transfer and much more. Let us help you fill your next conference agenda.
Specialized Instruments and Assessments
ETD has experts on staff and on contract to offer a variety of inventories, instruments and assessments that help individuals and teams leverage personal attributes for increased performance. The various tools identify personality types, leadership styles, communication styles, decision-making styles, individual and team strengths, emotional intelligence, as well as other attributes.
These include:
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®)
- Clifton StrengthsFinder®
- DiSC® Inventory
- Play to Your Strengths®
- FIRO® (Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation™) Survey
if you don’t see a tool or assessment you are interested in, please contact us.
Coaching for Leaders & Individual Contributors
Performance Coaching: Maximize your potential to improve current performance and capability. Certified ETD staff members use the FUEL model, a structured framework to giving effective feedback, for coaching employees in performance development. Individualized sessions are available to all employees in state government based on self-selection or referral from a supervisor or manager.
Leadership Coaching: Leaders of all levels – aspiring, emerging, senior and executive – have the capacity to increase effectiveness. Leadership coaching provides state leaders with a chance to have a confidential conversation and receive honest feedback. Zenger Folkman certified consultants use the FUEL coaching model to help leaders expand awareness, discover superior solutions, and make and implement better decisions.
Presentations Coaching
Increase the impact and effectiveness of individual or staff presentations with the help of ETD. Whether it’s a one-time event or a message presented on a regular basis, ETD staff can help you design slide content and layout so your presentation is not only more effective, but also easier to deliver.
Training Needs Assessment
Get the most out of your agency training budget by conducting a training needs assessment. ETD has helped several agencies identify skills that support organizational priorities and enhance workplace performance. Needs assessments can be developed for teams, departments, divisions, units, or an entire agency.
Vendor Referral
ETD has experience working with a multitude of vendors and can help you, your team, or your agency find an expert in the training you need.
Vendor services include:
- Job task & competency analysis
- Instructional design, development and delivery
- E-Learning design & development
- Survey & evaluation design & development
View the vendors currently on master contract with ETD.