Design principles

We act as your architect of learning, by first designing the building with a relatively small team of strategy and leadership architects, designers and project managers. A design should always meet the following criteria:

We design integrated building blocks that seamlessly fit together and as such form a process with clear added value (a programme is more than the sum of sessions). It provides structure and a grip over a programme with clear objectives. It also acts as a booster to reach the desired objectives.
A programme’s journey and outcome has to be energizing for participants (a programme is not just like a book to read or show to watch). Participants don’t look at the programme design, they experience it! Therefore our programme designs are developed from the experience/ psychology / perception of the participant.
Besides clear economical drivers (how to maximize learning in shortest way possible), a programme design also has pedagogical drivers (a programme needs to achieve more with less). It should be entertaining and surprising: revealing the invisible, making the non-discussable discussable, stretching the boundaries of comfort zones.

Our tailor-made programmes and interventions are then delivered through the ELP-alliance of facilitators from business, academia and the arts, as well as your own, internal facilitators.

Team principles

At ELP we follow some core principles. We appreciate diversity: the unique qualities that we each bring to the table and are aware that others may have different approaches We realize that we are all teachers and pupils: we co-learn and co-teach, all of us, and maintain a healthy dynamic balance between knowing and not knowing

Transformation principles

The tools and approaches that we use to support and enable leaders to take courageous and calculated steps forward into the unknown are built on some important principles and beliefs of transformation