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ELA Professional Development: Empowering Professionals, Strengthening Teams
ELA's professional development is grounded in proven theory and delivered through engaging, dynamic, and fun sessions—empowering professionals with practical strategies that lead to stronger teams and improved workplace culture.
Building strong teams
Workshop Topics & Objectives: Building Leaders, Inspiring Growth
ELA can provide participants with certificates for CEU credits, upon request. Select from topics below or work with the ELA team to craft customized programs to meet your goals.
Featured Workshop: Build Highly Functioning Teams
Dive deep into building trust, creating strategic plans, and developing actionable growth strategies, ensuring your team leaves with a clear path to immediate progress.
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Tailored for your team
We offer customized professional development aligned with your goals, building lasting success through engaging, actionable sessions.
Flexible formats
Choose what fits your schedule and team size:
60-minute sessions
Half-day or full-day retreats
Multi-day series
Small departments to full-size company teams
Key Areas of development
Team Building & Collaboration
Growth Mindset & Resilience
Communication & Conflict Resolution
Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Workplace Wellness & Stress Management
Customized programming available
Program data and feedback
Each program includes a post-survey to gather participant feedback, which is shared upon program completion.
Investment
Programs are customized to fit your goals, group size, time, and budget, with a portion of your investment helping ELA provide leadership and workforce readiness programming to underserved schools.
Building strong teams
Workshop topics & objectives
All curriculum aligns with Ohio's SEL Standards. ELA can provide participants with certificates for CEU credits, upon request. Select from themes below or work with the ELA team to craft customized programs to meet your goals.
1-Hour Professional Development Programs
The Power of Personalities
Understanding how different people communicate is key to stopping miscommunication. Whether it’s between students and teachers, teachers and teachers, or teachers and admin, learning each other's social personalities will increase teamwork in all forms.
Successfully Balancing Work and Life
Experiential program filled with tips, tricks, and techniques to help bring balance to your everyday life.
Developing a Growth Mindset Through Critical Thinking
Understanding how your present mindset impacts your day. Engaging activities to expand your growth mindset and think outside the box.
Get SMART with Goal Setting
Techniques to sharpen your effectiveness in reaching success. Walk away with an action plan that will make a difference.
Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude
Positioning yourself for success by understanding the depths of negative conditioning. Discover methods to enlighten your vision.
Your Most Valuable Asset
Creatively analyze your values to better align your life. Through a journey of self-discovery, find out what makes you unique and how to live your true self.
The ABCs of Impactful Communication
Have you ever experienced a breakdown in communication? Learn how to impart your message to make the most impact. Dissecting the layers involved in clear communication.
The Power of Self-Discovery
Utilizing ELA tools, participants will gain personal knowledge of themselves which will help guide them to develop a 90-day plan of action.
Building Highly Functioning Teaching Teams (5 hours)
This 5-part series will take your teams on a journey of discovery. Team members will uncover the pathway to a highly effective team while engaging in each step of the process through fun and challenging activities. Teams will walk away with an action plan for immediate growth.
Program Participants
Watch our Professional Development overview video.
“What impacted me the most was the ability to take things from class and apply it to my work practice or share with family/friends. I enjoy engaging others in my learning.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
What size group can you provide programming for?
We can work with groups ranging in size from 3 to 150 participants.
Do you have set PD sessions?
Yes, we have a several key topics that we’ve developed PD sessions around and we can also customize programming to meet the needs of your group.
What is the cost?
Programs are customized to fit your goals, group size, time, and budget, with a portion of your investment helping ELA provide leadership and workforce readiness programming to underserved schools.
How are PD sessions run?
Learning takes place through interactive activities, games, challenges, and discussions. Each topic is grounded in theory and seamlessly connected to real-world applications through reflective debrief discussions.
