Inclusive Leadership in Practice for Senior Teams Training Solution

In this flexible, hands-on workshop, participants explore inclusive leadership, workplace power dynamics, privilege, psychological safety, and your existing organisational culture. The option to include a complementary pre-workshop culture diagnostic provides the chance to generate meaningful data insights to ground the conversation.

Through experiential activities, facilitated discussion, and interactive scenarios (optionally enacted by professional actors), leaders will leave this workshop with a deep understanding of how to move beyond unconscious bias to become consciously inclusive. The workshop concludes with the development of personalised action plans, ensuring each leader is equipped to promote genuine, collective progress.

If you’d like to talk options over, book a meeting with Kasmin.

Learning outcomes:

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

Be able to approach diversity and inclusion strategically, with a sound understanding of the difference between equality and equity.
Gain awareness of their leadership styles and how they could be affecting behaviour, interactions and decision-making.
Explore power dynamics, privilege, and psychological safety, learning how to utilise power ethically to build trust.

Have a clear understanding of the elements that constitute an inclusive culture, equipped to identify and address barriers to inclusion.
Analyse team dynamics and organisational culture to determine effective practices and obstacles to equality, diversity, and inclusion in the context of your organisation.
Leave with a personalised action plan aimed at encouraging consciously inclusive and psychologically safe work environments.

Workshop Outline...

The Big Picture: An activity titled “Six Letters” reveals how getting caught up in the little things can mean we lose sight of the big picture – we see the trees, but not the forest. We discuss how our personal experiences can create blinkers to the experiences of others. Reflecting on barriers in the world around us, we show how there is not a one-size-fits-all approach to inclusion.

Equality and Equity: Using visuals to bring these concepts to life, participants deepen their understanding of the distinctions between equality and equity. We’ll consider practical examples of equity in practice, with a tool for leaders to introspect on equity in their organisation. Using these insights, participants reflect on goals to include in their personalised action plans.

Leadership Styles and Inclusion: Participants will explore leadership styles and their impact on inclusion. We’ll discuss key attributes and how they manifest, including transformational, servant, transactional, and inclusive leadership. Participants will identify their leadership style preferences and how they may influence their interactions with others. A live-acted scenario, based on real experiences from our research, will illustrate the practical effects of different leadership styles.

How this looks with actors:
This scenario will demonstrate how leadership approaches can create a sense of belonging for some team members while potentially excluding others. will have the opportunity to ask questions and explore the intentions and experiences of the characters portrayed. They will reflect on scenarios from their professional lives where their leadership style impacted team dynamics, both positively and negatively. This dialogue will help participants connect theoretical concepts with real-world implications.

Power Dynamics and Psychological Safety: An exploration of power dynamics, privilege, and promoting trust brings attention to the essential role leaders play in shaping the environments they lead in. The “Power Up/Power Down” activity highlights manifestations of power, introducing insights into conscientious and empathetic leadership practices. We’ll link this with psychological safety and examine its impact on trust, innovation, and collaboration. Participants will be invited to build on their action plan, reflecting on how they can ethically leverage their power for good.

How this looks with actors:
A scenario vividly portrays how psychological safety can be quickly eroded when power dynamics come into play. After the initial conversation, the audience is invited to ask each character questions to uncover their motivations and the emotions provoked through the conversation. The group work together to steer the conversation in a better direction.

Creating an Inclusive Culture: Participants will define what an inclusive culture looks like and why it is essential for the success. They will explore common barriers to inclusion, including unconscious bias, systemic inequities, and cultural misunderstandings. Through interactive exercises and discussions, participants will develop key skills needed to promote an inclusive culture.

Empowering Conscious Inclusion: Finally, in the Inclusive Leadership Self-Audit, participants will reflect on their own leadership skills, values and biases, and scope an actionable plan to drive continuous growth and embed inclusive leadership capabilities.

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What About Actors?

Through clever script writing, goosebump-inducing delivery and professional facilitation, we love to bring learning to life with actors…

We can select scripts from our library or write them specially for you, based on typical scenarios you see within in your organisation. For larger projects where budgets don’t allow for live acting, we can professionally film bespoke scenarios to create video content which can be used in the training as well as induction, toolkits, and beyond.

Using actors in workshop give delegates the opportunity to:

Test out alternative ways of approaching what can sometimes be difficult situations, without the pressure of role playing themselves!
Explore what is acceptable and what isn’t; intent versus impact; and both the subtle, and not so subtle, behaviours we see play out in the workplace
Be immersed in an interactive learning experience that engages hearts and minds, and sticks in the long-term memory

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Don't Just Take Our Word For It

Nina Darling

UoP SHCP Teaching Fellow, University of Portsmouth

“The course which Paula provided was really engaging and nicely presented. The use of the actors was particularly good and actually bought the whole thing to life and made it really valuable learning. Thank you very much – it was fantastic!”

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Inclusive Leadership in Practice For Senior Teams

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