Inclusion is all about feeling affirmed and valued for bringing your authentic voice to any conversation where you can make a difference. Our definition of ‘leader’ is anyone who cares to make a difference, someone willing to take a stand for what they believe will lift the team’s performance.
The INCLUSION+ experience helps organisations to turn the volume up on leadership and engagement. Integral to our ethos, we believe that noisy teams are healthier than quiet teams.
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Define strengths & areas to strengthen
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Concise 33 question survey
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Measures five key I & D dimensions
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Link with internal metrics to establish baseline and targets
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Focus groups to assess impact of leadership shadow
INCLUSION+ Survey
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Conversations with the Board & Executive Team
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Culture & People: AKL Teaching Gardens
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NZ 2050: Getting on the front foot
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NZ and global benchmarks/best practice
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Top-down leadership and ownership
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Agree metrics to track progress
The INCLUSION+ Experience
The Business Case for Inclusion
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Can integrate with existing L&D framework or build anew
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Action Learning: A structured and continual learning process across time
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Prep executive team and senior leaders to co-facilitate
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Designed for all staff who lead people and teams
Unconscious Bias in Leadership
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Overview 12 prevalent unconscious biases and their impact on team and organisational inclusion
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How to recognise and mitigate exclusion in recruitment, hiring & promotion practices
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The practice of ‘mindfulness’ and how to increase self-awareness and connection when navigating through important conversations
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Post-workshop exercises to illuminate and mitigate unconscious bias
How People Thrive in the Workplace
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The hierarchy of five human needs and how they are relevant to staff engagement, productivity and performance
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Strategies to build a team culture where people thrive in their work
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The power of purpose: alignment of personal and organisational purpose and values to drive stronger engagement
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Unpacking empowerment: From managing to leading others
Emotional Intelligence: The New Black
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The four elements of EQ: Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Social Awareness, Relationship Management, Empathy
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The neurology that underpins EQ: the role of the limbic brain and human connection
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Learning to recognise and trust intuition in decision making
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Feedback: How to solicit and incorporate into your leadership style
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Role play & practice scenarios to build emotional intelligence
Authenticity & Impostor Syndrome
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The seven elements of authenticity and their impact on leadership effectiveness
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How to recognise and manage the inherent tensions between ‘fitting in’ and ‘standing out’
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Reframing vulnerability: from vice to virtue
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Impostor syndrome: How to recognise and combat the symptoms
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Strategies & tools to build greater self-awareness and confidence
Empathy: The Human Side of Leadership
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Unpacking the three elements of empathy: Cognitive, Emotional, Compassionate
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The business case for empathy: What the research shows
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Presence: The distinction between ‘being’ and ‘doing’
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Six ways to listen with stronger empathy
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Role play and practice scenarios to build empathy
The Art & Skill of Coaching
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Coach2Coach: A five-point coaching game plan
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The distinction between coaching, leading & managing others
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How to give constructive & timely feedback
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The power of storytelling: Tapping into the four archetypes of the human psyche (hope, despair, reckoning, growth)
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Role play and practice scenarios
INCLUSION+ Leadership Workshops
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Where have we grown? Where are there still opportunities?
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Focus group pulse checks
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Tracking internal metrics against external benchmarks
Traction and Momentum
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Sustaining momentum beyond the first year
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Annual INCLUSION+ Survey to track progress and goals
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Refresher Leadership Cohort Workshops
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Induction to INCLUSION+ for new leaders
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Intermittent forums to focus on global benchmarks
INCLUSION+ Sustainability
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Optional, but worth considering to strengthen coaching capability
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Individually tailored with INCLUSION+ practitioner
Personalised Leadership Coaching
Creating a culture of inclusion and deep connection
In our fast-paced world with distractions coming in at us from every direction, it is important to be more purposeful about ‘connection’ — both at work and at home.