Developing Teams

Facilitating senior leadership teams requires deep trust with the leader, an understanding of the team’s context and an ability to shine light on how a team’s behaviours may help or hinder organisational progress.

I bring a Gestalt-based approach to facilitation. This means working creatively to uncover the ‘unsaid’ in a group, to help the team see beyond their blind-spots and to provide tools to move swiftly into healthy debate.

With the increasing need to create truly interconnected systems, leaders need to put more focus on the ‘skills of partnership’ across all parts of their organisation & on actively creating psychologically safe environments where all people can do their best work together.

Emma can help senior teams:

• Form: Top team formation & accelerated performance

• Re-think: Help leaders in an overloaded fast-moving world to re-think how they operate

• Partner: Build organizational agility through creating partnerships, internally with other leaders & externally with customers and stakeholders

I design immersive experiential leadership development solutions that increasingly involve mixing virtual, in-person and group experiences. The key is to make the learning helpfully disruptive (to create change on the level of mindset as well as skillset) and practically relevant (so leaders are actively experimenting with applying their new skills to real challenges).

I am increasingly interested in creating leader-led, people-powered change involving leaders at all levels of an organisation.

Leadership Development with Emma will:

• Provide an active rather than theoretical learning process

• Create tangible shifts in behaviours and attitudes

• Will be designed to build the type of leadership that your future strategy depends on

I am increasingly asked to run facilitator training for fellow practitioners and for coaches who want to shift from 1-1 work to group facilitation.  In addition, I notice that in today’s world in which traditional hierarchical organisational structures are being challenged and the paradigm of leader as expert is becoming obsolete, a new kind of leadership is badly needed.

We need leaders who have the know-how to create genuinely empowered cultures where rapid innovation can flourish. We need ‘Leaders as Facilitators’. Facilitation training is therefore aimed at Practitioners and Leaders alike.

Facilitation training with EMC enables:

• Practitioners: to work skilfully ‘in the moment’ to illuminate group dynamics, to create the conditions for healthy group change & to develop creative ways to work with the most cynical of teams

• Leaders: to learn what it means to be ‘leader as facilitator’; to develop the skills to enable true agency in their people and to create the agile, creative cultures of tomorrow.