Leadership@Play+ 2025

This course takes participants on a journey from the Personal to the Global, exploring the polarisations that exist not just in the outside world but in the hearts and minds of the leaders who populate it.  It deliberately stretches the leader to new ways of being, challenging the leader to reconsider beliefs around themselves, others and the world around them, extending understanding of  leadership and looking beyond capability measures to that of capacity - to help the leader navigate conflict and complexity moment by moment. 

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Course includes:

Four modules over three months.

• Two leadership evaluations: Global Leadership Profile and The Leadership Circle Profile

• 8 ½ days of facilitated workshops 

• Two individual coaching sessions, with exceptional executive coaches

• Two smaller group (3pp) facilitated coaching sessions

• Peer support coaching beyond the course itself

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Module One - My Inner Operating System

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Intro Evening: Introduction to Group Process

This evening session sets the tone for how the group will play over the months ahead.

 

Day 1:  The Construction of Me - Pattern making

This session explores how your belief systems about yourself, others and the world were formed and starts to surface the self-limiting beliefs that get in the way of the realisation of your leadership potential 

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Day 2: So who am I? 

This session explores the concept of ego in relation to Self and raises the critical question of who you really are beyond your conditioned identity.

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After Module One, participants receive an individual one on one coaching session.

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Module Two - The Leader: Beyond the Playbook

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Day 3: Pattern Breaking

This session starts to integrate the learnings of Module One by demonstrating and exploring the conscious and unconscious choices we make as leaders based on our developmental history and reality.  A leader is able to start shifting habitual ways of doing and being in the world by shifting their understanding and expanding their mindset.

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Day 4: My leadership 

This workshop unpacks The Leadership Circle Profile so you fully understand which conscious ways of being will potentially propel you forward and which habitual (unconscious) behaviours will hold you back. By the time you receive your 360 you will have a far fuller understanding not just on 'how' you turn up but 'why' - which is the greatest lever for transformation.

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After Module Two, participants receive an individual one on one coaching session including a specific 360 debrief.

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​Module Three - Leading Teams and Organisations

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Days 5: The Outer Game of Communication

The most powerful unlock in leadership is the interplay between awareness and communication. It has been said that leadership IS the conversation. Hence, this module focuses on the most critical leadership skill of communication.  We introduce a framework and toolkit to immediately enhance the participants’ ability to a) ask questions which unlock possibility, b) listen to understand a situation more fully, and c) hold a room with a more impactful presence.

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This powerful skills-based module is about extending awareness and leadership range to often more advanced stages of development through simple practices around difficult conversations.

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​Day 6: The Process of Collaboration

The emergence of new organisational intentions and structures demand leaders to be strong collaborators both internally and externally. But research shows that only a minority have the internal capacity (and motivation) to collaborate. This session explores the huge jump in  leadership development needed  in order to collaborate with groups of people with incongruent opinions, beliefs and ideas. 

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Building from all that has come before it and exercising the new approaches to communication, this experiential session begins to explore how a leader can more effectively turn up in conflict and navigate polarised viewpoints.

 

After Module Three, participants experience small group coaching with an expert group facilitator which is also designed to build the participants own coaching and facilitation skills. 

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​Module Four:  Integrating the Macrocosm and the Microcosm

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Day 7 Understanding Culture in Systems

Building from understanding the complexities of eco-systems within an organisation, this session overlays the contextual complexities of the world we live in. It explores the paradoxes and polarisations presented within the idea of ‘culture’. This includes exploring organisational culture and framings around diversity, inclusion and engagement.

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Day 8 Integration

This session integrates all the learning and concepts explored within the framework of adult development relating to leadership.  It equips the participant with the support structures to continue with their own growth/evolutionary process.

 

We conclude with a celebratory dinner.

 

After Module Four, participants experience small group coaching with an expert group facilitator which is also designed to build the participants own coaching and facilitation skills.

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Post-course continued development

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Participants are set up in small groups for self-directed learning and group coaching experiences until the final session 6-9 months after the the main course curriculum ends i.e.

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Review and Reboot

It is human nature that once released into the world without the structure and support of the course to anchor you, it is easy to be pulled back into a vortex of old realities and this includes old behaviours. There are two ways we meet this challenge. Firstly the group has a process of peer coaching to support their on-going development after the main part of the course completes. Secondly, around 6-9 months after the course and peer coaching completion, the group is invited back to explore the impact of the experience, review key concepts and re-orient you back on your intended path if need be.