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Masterclass Series
Masterclasses promote accelerated learning and growth, especially when underpinned by mentoring:
The small group environment allows participants to connect and form peer-to-peer networks often strengthening individual learning and growth
Leveraging individual and collective knowledge, insight and experience, participants are able to access greater diversity of thought and understanding often supercharging their capacity and capability
The creation of the trusted network, through the masterclass promotes resilience and the increases the individual’s capacity to understand and harness the growth opportunity within trauma, challenge and dissonance
Trusted Adviser Consulting
Mix of advisory services including:
Risk diagnosis and analysis
Strategy – performance, growth, transformation, culture, D&I, L&D
Shadow CEO to support, mentor, advise, reflect
Co-opted Adviser to Board
Skills Audits -Board, C+ Suite
Deep Dive analysis on:
Culture: trust, resilience, innovation, engagement, agility, connection & consciousness
Cognitive ecology across value creation chain including network governance and out-source expert suppliers
Emotional Labour: toxicity, depth, breadth and impact
Systemic durability (operations and governance) to drive high performance
Sitting alongside C+ leaders, I act as a sounding board and mentor/adviser/guide creating and holding a safe space for them to reflect, plan, pilot and evaluate. Equally as a Trusted Adviser, I can represent the C+ and/or Board working with individuals, teams and business units to identify opportunities for their personal, professional, individual and collective, growth and performance.
Methodologies:
Risk analysis and measurement
Intersectionality & Design Thinking
Critical Analysis & Problem Solving
Cognitive ecology analysis and management
Chaos and complexity theory
Diversity and inclusion frameworks (gender, culture, race, disability, sexuality)
Blue Ocean Consulting
Blue Ocean Leadership
Appreciative Inquiry
Stakeholder mapping and management
Relationship analysis and management
Mindfulness meditation
Conscious presence
Creative thinking
Influential communications
Effective Management and Prioritisation skills
Identify, diagnose, manage and resolve:
Risk
Strategy direction and execution
Leadership Impact
Culture formation, evolution and transformation
Leader isolation, loneliness and dissonance
Mental, emotional and psychological wellness
Barriers to diversity and inclusion
Employee and stakeholder engagement
Alignment across purpose, values and execution
Resilience
As a Trusted Adviser I help Boards be confident that they are minimising risks to:
Good governance
Health and wellbeing of all stakeholders
Resilient and sustainable performance and growth
Diversity & Inclusion: Learning Community with Individual Group Mentoring
Through a mix of blended learning, participants individually and collectively explore the following concepts, mindsets, beliefs and values:
Intersectionality of factors driving exclusion
Unconscious bias
Trust
What does it mean to belong
After understanding these concepts and beliefs, participants are taught how to identify and asses the existence, nature and impact of:
Cognitive ecologies and distributed mind
Emotional labour
Power of dissonance
Complexity and chaos
In understand the nature of dysfunction in the workplace culture, participants then explore how to build:
Resilience
Durable structures, policies, systems and processes
Addressing fear and subverting the dominant discourse and paradigm
Tailored action plans to inspire, engage and motivate action
Design unique evaluation and measurement framework to track belonging
Complex program:
Rather than offering a one day workshop that fails to effect deep, sustainable change, this program is a mix of:
Formal learning
On the job experience
Role modelling
Peer learning networks
A range of templates and workshop resources will help individual’s translate their learning into actionable plans that impact culture and the organisational cognitive ecology.
Learning communities will be created during each workshop to promote the implementation and embedding of insights achieved through the workshop. Importantly the communities will promote deeper connections with other participants providing a network of supportive professionals doing similarly powerful, impactful and consuming work.
These communities will be moderated and supported through closed face to face and online spaces.
Participants will be supported to continue their growth through tailored self directed learning program and individual mentoring.
Depending on the setup of the workshop is established, a follow up masterclass might be planned, providing a clear evaluation and measurement track.
Similarly workshop champions or participants might commission a Trusted Adviser diagnosis (or have sought one prior to the workshop) which typically will also identify and recommend actions and progress trackers.
Building a culture:
Building a culture of belonging, is the work of a lifetime. Never truly completed, each new interaction and interpersonal relationship impacts culture and the operation of organisational ecology. However, by understanding self, others and the fundamentals necessary to promote diversity and belonging, dynamic and inclusive cultures can emerge and continuously evolve.
This workshop is unique and offers a grounded approach to tackling a wicked program that is at the heart of slow organisation growth and decreasing performance.
The fostering of cultures that includes and promotes diversity requires a paradigm shift in leadership, strategy and execution. Typical half or full day courses focussed on short term tactics ultimately fail and irrevocably hurt employees, leaders and the end consumer or client.
