Exceptional Teams
Teams!At Exceptional Difference, we know that highly performant teams are the difference between success and failure. We also know that exceptional teams don’t just happen. They require exceptional engineers, exceptional leaders, and the right culture. Our Exceptional Teams offerings build upon our offerings for engineers and leaders by helping teams achieve a new level of cohesiveness, productivity, and excellence.
There is a better way…an exceptional way
At Exceptional Difference, we’re committed to empowering elite engineers, leaders, and teams for success. With a culture of excellence, teams can consistently deliver quality with speed to value in an energizing environment. Innovation is both personal and cultural, and enabling the Obligations of Engineering of value, quality, speed, commitments and leading with data are accelerators to the innovation your teams need.
Exceptional Difference Solutions
Talks and Tools
We have the books Lead With Speed,Leading the Unleadable, and Leading the Unleadable 2nd edition, which were written by Exceptional Difference’s award-winning author, Alan Willett.
Talks and Book Clubs can be an exciting way to bring these books to life for your organization. Author, speaker, and consultant Alan Willett would be happy to speak to your organization or help set up a book club for any of these books. You can have roundtable discussions, Q&A, and deepen your mastery of these topics.
Workshops
Whiteboard Chats are an opportunity to bring Exceptional Difference expertise into your organization for a few hours on a one-time or recurring basis. Take advantage of experts who have learned from working in the field for decades and sharing that expertise with hundreds of clients across the globe.
Mastering Rapid Integration is a three day workshop that focuses on mastering the methods and techniques that will help you thrive amidst the most challenging aspects of merger/acquisition scenerios.
Forging Leaders for Driving Change is a two day workshop that helps you and your team proactively manage the rapid pace of change by equipping your team with the mindset and methods to become the leaders that shape the course of the organization and set the tone for future change.
Experiential Learning and Training
360 Inventory: Team Assessment turns insight into action as leaders and teams are equipped to diagnose, own, and accelerate improvement across complex systems. It transforms a standard inventory process into a catalyst for organizational learning, accountability, and measurable performance. Alongside this offering, 360 Inventory: Assessment Team Training equips participants with a practical, repeatable framework to independently conduct structured 360-degree team performance inventories—evaluating results, leadership, teamwork, and process across technical organizations. Finally, 360 Inventory: Implementation of Recommendations takes the assessment and turns it into an action plan and tracks execution to completion.
Portfolio Curation and Roadmap Management equips teams to setup a roadmap, processes, and a leadership structure that produces and maintains a long-term roadmap for the organization.
Comprehensive Consulting
In addition to the highly customized engagements offered to engineers and leaders, we have several specific offerings for teams:
Exceptional Starts: Launch your new team, new mission, new brand, or new project on the right foot. Exceptional Starts are a great opportunity for senior leaders to vision cast, describe what success looks like, and articulate the value of success in their own words. This provides the team a north start from which priorities are assessed, plans are developed, and commitments are made. The team has a clear ‘why” that motivates and inspires greatness.
Project Recovery stabilizes troubled projects and enables sustainable turnaround. Organizations regain control of underperforming or at-risk projects by creating a shared, fact-based view of the current state, identifying root causes, and providing support to implement high-leverage recovery actions.
Anything goes: We thrive on helping engineering teams improve. If you have a problem, we’re here to help!
Exceptional Engineering Experience
An exclusive program that enables leaders and engineers to master the X-Factors of Commitment, Quality, Value, and Culture.
Quality Deep Dive
Gain a deep understanding of quality management for high-tech systems development and an action plan to successfully implement them for immediate impact.
Technical Debt Deep Dive
This is an immersive and highly collaborative workshop and training experience for elite engineers and team leaders looking to tame technical debt within their organization for good.