/ Emotional Culture Deck workshop
A hands-on workshop using the Emotional Culture Deck to dive into the emotions that drive behaviour at work. Your team agrees on the emotions that are essential to success and the behaviours that support that.
3 to 4 hours · In person · Teams of up to 12, larger groups on request · From $4,000 + GST
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A new or newly merged team, before its habits set by default.
A leadership team that wants to agree how it leads, not just what it delivers.
Teams where the values on the wall don't match up with the behaviours on the floor.
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Run it with the whole team (up to 50 people), the leadership team, or we can build it around your specific goals, like better stakeholder management.
3 to 4 hours
As a team, which emotions are essential to our success at work? And which emotions do we not want to feel, but realise we will from time to time? The team maps its emotional culture, then turns it into behaviours and actions that support how you can best work together.
3 hours
To be successful, what do our people need to feel, and not feel, at work? The leadership team agrees how it wants to lead, and leaves ready to run the same conversation with their own teams.
Tailored
It could be a merger, a change program, or a new set of stakeholders. We design the session around what the team is facing.
Three hours, four stages.
01
Intro and warm up activity
How to build emotional intelligence
02
Emotions for my success
Emotions to support the team's success
03
Vote on the team emotions
Emotional Culture Tracking Canvas: behaviours and rituals
04
Agree the behavioural focus for the coming month.
Everyone gets their own deck to keep. That's deliberate: it cuts group think, and the quietest person's cards sit on the table next to the loudest person's.
3 hour in-person facilitated session
Individual boxed decks, for up to 12 people
The neuroscience of emotions and how to leverage them
The Emotional Culture Canvas & Conversation Guides
Post-session activities and tools to build emotional intelligence
Since late 2023, riders & elephants, the team behind the deck, have been studying its impact with Professor Michael Parke at The Wharton School. Results so far:
78%
psychological safety, up from 58%
Team formation programme
74%
employee voice, up from 62%
Team formation programme
96%
of employees felt truly heard
Unspoken Conversations programme
20.7%
increase in naming positive emotions
Change readiness programme
It's not a box ticking exercise or an opportunity to dictate how things should work.
That takes a different set of skills and legislative knowledge, so we'd refer you to a specialist instead.
Values describe what you stand for. This is focused on the emotions that are essential to your team's success, and how they drive behaviours.
It can be part of a team building day, but this is usually pretty thoughtful work, so you'd balance it out with other activities. Depending on your objectives, a team day might be the better fit.
Team Foundations builds on the ECD to embed the behaviours that will drive success for your team, including holding each other accountable.
Tell us a little about what's going on for you or your team. Book a call or send us an email.
