Testimonials
“I have worked with Elaine MacLellan on several aspects of performance development and her energy, enthusiasm and expertise are unmatched. She was a tremendous resource and leader in facilitating team building activities for my group. Elaine is also very well-versed in leadership development and provided useful feedback and executive coaching during the Voices 360 process. Her advice was always thoughtful and well-founded. Elaine would be a tremendous resource in any area of organization and management development.”
-Mary Ammer, former Director of Software Development, IDX Systems Corporation
“I worked with Elaine MacLellan when I was an Employee Relations Manager. Elaine saw a need for new manager training and developed a program. It was offered several times per year and consisted of modules that were taught over several months. The topics covered included Recruiting, Financials, Coaching, Performance Management, and Managing within the Law. Elaine collaborated with subject matter experts to develop the trainings. Some of the program classes were taught online through Centra so that managers from remote offices had access to the training and were able to learn from their peers as well as from subject matter experts. The course was well received and always at full capacity. In addition to the development and facilitation of classes, she also coached several of the new managers. I saw a reduction in employee relations issues due to the training our new managers were receiving.”
-Employee Relations Manager, Healthcare Organization
“Elaine demonstrates great knowledge, skill, and passion for developing leaders and building high-performance teams. With her expertise in leadership development, talent and performance management, and team building, Elaine consistently delivers exceptional value to her clients, their businesses, and to workshop participants.”
-Director of Organizational Development, Software Company
“Elaine is a first rate trainer, curriculum developer, and OD consultant. She created and taught many custom OD training classes. She accomplished this under tight deadlines and her customers were always very satisfied.”
-Vice President Education, High-Tech Company
“Elaine responded to customer needs and provided a performance development tool that was easy to use, linked corporate imperatives to individual goals, and resulted in nearly 100% compliance with the Performance Development program.”
-Director of Compensation and Benefits, Healthcare Organization
“With 15 years’ IT experience including several roles in Service and Development, I became really impressed with the competency model program Elaine and her team created and fostered in our business. While the idea of a system that can contribute to stronger employee development is not novel in and of itself, the nurturing of the system across our business departments drove organizational consistency, and that was novel. Consistent models that are well understood and described to the managers ensures all departments, all managers and all goals can be better aligned. More importantly, a consistent framework then helps ensure employees are treated, evaluated, and recruited in the same fashion across the organization.”
-Theresa Forrest, former R & D Director of Operations, IDX Systems Corporation
“Elaine developed an exceptional program that guided me and my management team in executing on our key responsibility as managers: to develop the talent on our team. In addition to the comprehensiveness and rational program structure, Elaine was a coach to us as we prepared for the delivery of the performance sessions.”
-Director of Education and Knowledge, High-Tech Company
"Elaine is a wealth of information. Her training classes were always run with a tremendous degree of both professionalism and warmth, and she has always demonstrated great interest in the subject matter at hand and her students' ability to digest it and move forward, incorporating it into their daily lives. The materials, classes, and resources have all been so beneficial to me in getting me "up and running" as a manager, and Elaine's availability and assistance every step of the way has been tremendous. Most beneficial to me personally has been our one-on-one coaching sessions. With Elaine's guidance, I've been able to focus more clearly on my professional priorities and goals, and have taken many steps towards achieving them—all with very positive results. Thanks to Elaine's coaching, I am now right where I want to be, and couldn't be happier!”
-Real-time Development Manager, High-Tech Company
“In an ever-evolving and changing healthcare IT business, Elaine was able to keep the management team grounded on what businesses often forget is the heart of their success: employees. Elaine personally helped me complete and interpret results of a Lominger 360-degree assessment. The executive coaching she provided really helped me turn peer and manager feedback into constructive career actions and ultimately be more confidence in my contributions. I like to think that this insightful self-assessment contributed to my current promotion and expanded responsibilities.”
-R & D Director, Software Company
“I had the fortune of having managers go through Elaine’s New Manager Success Program. The program was well designed to focus on the top competencies we deemed important for managers. Because of the program quality, my managers were better prepared and highly motivated to take on their responsibilities.”
-Director of Education and Knowledge, High-Tech Company
“We used Elaine's knowledge and skill in building high performance teams through formal facilitated training sessions and informal coaching. Through the training, all of my teams created a team identify, charter, norms, and honestly assessed their strengths and weaknesses. They enthusiastically developed action plans to refine their performance as a team. Elaine then provided coaching to the managers to keep the momentum going and give guidance when they hit challenges. With the combination of Elaine's training and coaching, all of my teams progressed and improved not only their performance but their satisfaction as a team unit!”
-Director, Software Company
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I worked with Elaine specifically on delivering management training courses via synchronous online tools so she could reach managers across the company in remote locations and bring those managers together. Elaine was able to master the nuances of online training with ease. She was knowledgeable about the subject matter, well prepared, and very thoughtful about her delivery. I was an attendee at training classes where Elaine focused on competency modeling and employee coaching, and found them to be very effective. Elaine has incredible insight into how organizations work, and she has a wealth of knowledge to apply to the workplace.
-Lead Instructional Designer and Education Leader, Software Company