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
Talks for Exceptional Teams include From Burden to Benefit: Identifying and Managing Technical Debt, Streamlining Success: Rework Reduction,Commitment Catalyst: Reviewing the Plan, Leading the Unleadable, Lead with Speed, 100+ Questions, Essence of Systems Engineering, Navigating the Storms of Change, Building a Mindset for Exceptional Leadership,Fire/Fire Up, and more. Any of our talks can be brought to your organization and customized to your audience.
Free downloads include Technical Debt Assessment, 100+ Questions Field Guide, Essence of Systems Engineering Field Guide, and Building a Mindset for Exceptional Leadership Field Guide. These downloads are great introductory materials as well as solid complements to any of our talks or workshops.
We also have the books, Lead With Speed and Leading the Unleadable, which were written by Exceptional Difference’s award-winning author, Alan Willett.
Workshops
Any of our workshops for engineers and leaders can also be used with teams. In addition, we feature Book Clubs with the Author of Lead with Speed and Leading the Unleadable, in which you can have roundtable discussions and deepen your mastery of these topics.
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.
Whiteboard Talks: Pick a topic. Any topic in the realm of engineering. An Exceptional Difference expert will join your team for a customized whiteboard session. No pre-canned slides will be used – just an expert and a whiteboard. You pick the duration of each talk, frequency of talks, and duration of the engagement, and you bring the topics and the questions. We provide answers!
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.