THE EMOTIONAL CULTURE DECK

Emotional Leadership Workshop

For Leaders who care about humanising the workplace. This half-day event is a must-have addition to your leadership development toolkit. Implement what you learn straight away, literally 'out of the box'. Come and have a play!

Come learn the most valuable skills, behaviours and more that leaders need to succeed.

Transform the way you:

Lead yourself
Lead your teams
Lead your stakeholders & clients

So many of us don’t have the tools to support the lasting changes we seek in our organisations or with our clients. We’re looking for simpler and more impactful ways to connect with our people and shape the behaviour of our teams.

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Level up your leadership skills and embrace emotions at work through The Emotional Leadership Workshop, where you'll learn practical and interactive ways to use The Emotional Culture Deck and gain the confidence to transform your team, stakeholders and customers.

In this interactive and hands-on workshop, you'll experience using The Emotional Culture Deck to transform four key areas:

Effective team check-ins
Human-centred leadership
Leading through change
Stakeholder relationships

You’ll be posed a bunch of 'beautiful questions' to explore these areas and use The ECD as a tool to navigate these questions.

It’s a ‘sandpit environment’ where you come along, get your hands on the deck and experiment and learn together.

This half-day event is a must-have addition to your leadership development toolkit that you can use straight away and literally 'out of the box'.

Get in quick. Only 20 spots available.

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Better workplace culture starts with emotion.

Most organisations underestimate the influence emotion has on their culture and leadership. But as a leader, you know that when engagement and morale improve, so do productivity and employee retention. The Emotional Culture Deck adds a powerful tool to your belt for enabling human conversations and bottom-up culture change.

Increase engagement and morale

The emotional culture of an organisation influences employee satisfaction, wellbeing, burnout, teamwork, and even hard measures such as financial performance and absenteeism. But organisations (and leaders) often don’t talk about emotion. Many lack confidence in their relational skills.

Have the right tools on hand to help your organisation thrive

The Emotional Culture deck helps you flip leadership and culture conversations. It’s a simple card game toolkit that helps leaders uncover what truly motivates their people, and map desired team culture. As empathy, connections, and trust develop, results go up - and your people advice proves its value yet again.

Drive human conversations about what really matters in the workplace

Traditional leadership development is broken and doesn’t work because it either neglects or glosses over the crucial element of human motivation – emotion. The ECD flips traditional leadership development and training on its head.

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The ECD Emotional Leadership workshop is:

An introduction for leaders to 'The Emotional Culture Deck'
Practical, hands-on and interactive learning that will allow you to understand how you can level up your leadership by embracing emotions at work
A lesson in the four simple ways to use the game as a leader to get you started
The quickest path to gain the confidence to go and play the game with your team, stakeholders and customers
A complementary learning experience to the ECD Online Masterclass.

The ECD Emotional Leadership workshop is not:

Pathway to Certification or Accreditation in The Emotional Culture Deck
Teaching you how to run ECD team workshops or use the game as part of culture change
Lecture on the theory of emotional culture
Not a presentation of case studies (although ECD Certified Consultants share anecdotes and stories throughout the workshop about how they use the ECD and the activities being taught in the workshop).

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ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop Presented by...

Lotty Roberts, Founder of MiND.U, Master Elephant Rider and Certified ECD consultant .

Since completing the ECD Masterclass Course in 2019, Lotty Roberts has facilitated over a 100 Emotional Culture Deck client workshops, as well as dozens of 1:2:1's and helped teams of all sizes, in a variety of industries create more healthy and high performing cultures. Lotty is also a regular on the speaking circuit delivering talks and presentations on the power of emotions, emotional culture and emotional leadership.

Lotty's speciality and passion is all about helping leaders, teams and cultures to thrive, flourish and flow in a fast paced world, through the power of mindfulness and embracing emotions. Lotty is the founder of her business, ‘MiND.U’, where she is devoted to helping companies and individuals build the capability, resilience and 'know how' to mindfully flourish, lead and navigate themselves in an ever changing, complex and dynamic environment.

Lotty Roberts - ECD Certified Master Consultant — Lotty is currently the worlds only master level ECD Certified Consultant.

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Workshop Reviews from previous ECD Emotional Leadership workshops facilitated by Lotty Roberts

"This workshop is a 'must do' for anyone in a leadership or People & Culture role. The beauty of it is in the simplicity of its execution, anyone can facilitate this with their teams. It is the 'Swiss army knife' of people and performance tools."

"Lotty's energy for the ECD shines through in this workshop".

"A highly interactive and engaging workshop, a must for all Leaders who want to add a powerful tool into their workplace to empower people to connect and thrive. Lotty is a fabulous facilitator full of wisdom and energy and holds a safe and supportive space for play and curiosity."

"If you're a leader interested in team and organisational culture, this workshop is a really engaging way to deepen understanding of emotions and the ever-present impact they have in the world of work! I enjoyed the practical and interactive nature of the session and the chance to immediately apply the ECD. It's a great tool to have in my kete and I'm looking forward to using it together with my team and others soon. Lotty created a welcoming and engaging environment that made learning about the ECD alongside others a lot of fun. Ngā mihi nunui!"

"The workshop gave me more tips and ideas on how to use the deck well with teams.. It was practical and hands on and I left with so much insight on how to help teams use this tool well. It's fun and set at a great pace to get an insight into key ways to use the deck. You can go out the next day and give some of the activities a go - perfect!"

"This workshop will help anyone wanting to cultivate meaningful conversations about what is really happening at work. A fun and interactive way to develop human-centered leadership skills and make emotional chats accessible for everyone."

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Frequently Asked Questions

What’s the difference between this 'ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop' and The ECD Online Masterclass Course?

During this workshop, you will learn the four practical ways to use the ECD game as a leader: with your teams, with your people leaders, to navigate change and for your stakeholder relationships. You will be equipped to go out straight away in these specific areas and start using The Emotional Culture Deck and the activities you learn.
For a deeper and wider understanding of The ECD game and how to use it effectively for culture change, you must complete The ECD Online Masterclass.
The ECD Online Masterclass teaches you how to run full-team Emotional Culture Workshops for culture change.
The ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop is in person, and the ECD Online Masterclass Course is a self-paced online learning experience.
ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop and ECD Online Masterclass are designed to complement each other beautifully.
If you have done the ECD Online Masterclass, this is a must-have addition to your ECD learning and development.
Likewise, if you have done the ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop, then the ECD Online Masterclass is the natural next step if you want to go deeper and learn even more.
There is a final difference - Jeremy Dean, founder of riders&elephants and creator of The Emotional Culture Deck teaches the ECD Online Masterclass. The host and facilitator of The ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop is an independent ECD Certified Consultant trained by riders&elephants.

Who hosts The ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop

ECD Emotional Leadership Workshops are hosted and facilitated by independent ECD Certified Consultants.
ECD Certified Consultants are the only ones licensed to conduct ECD Emotional Leadership Workshops.
The ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop was designed by riders&elephants (they created the Emotional Culture Deck).
Plus R&E has trained all ECD Certified Consultant Partners in the art of ECD conversations. This means you learn from an experienced ECD Consultant and change maker.

How long is the ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop?

The workshop is 4 hours long.
Come ready to play and be an active participant.
This is not the type of event where you sit back and listen as someone lectures you about a topic.

Can I attend The ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop if I have already completed The ECD Online Masterclass?

Yes, it is possible to attend this workshop if you've already completed the ECD Online Masterclass. It will allow you to continue to practice with others who are also learning the art of emotional culture conversations (if you have not had the opportunity already) and also give extra skills, ideas and tips on how to use the deck in ways that you don't learn in the ECD Masterclass.

Should I do the ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop AND The ECD Online Masterclass?

We think so. But the choice is yours. It depends on how committed you are to continuing your learning journey and practising the art of emotional culture conversations. But we believe attending the ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop will make you an even more effective leader and ECD Practitioner.

Do you run virtual ECD Emotional Leadership Workshops?

No. These are live, in-person events only.

Do I gain a certificate or become accredited by completing this ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop?

No. You must complete The ECD Online Masterclass to obtain your ECD Qualified Practitioner Certification. Learn more about ECD Accreditation here: https://www.ridersandelephants.com/elephant-rider-community

Do you show us how the ECD can be used with families in this workshop?

Not specifically during this workshop however there will be a segment dedicated to questions so you could pose this as a question to the facilitator to offer some examples of how the game can be used with your families so that you can take the game home and have more human and empathetic conversations with your family too.

Do I get a physical Emotional Culture Deck as part of this Workshop?

Oh yeah. As part of your ticket, you'll get 1 Emotional Culture Decks (99 USD).

What’s the cost difference between the ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop and The ECD Online Masterclass Course?

The ECD Emotional Leadership is $399 NZD and the ECD Online Masterclass is 615 NZD - plus any online ticketing fees / taxes that may apply.
This is subject to change and will be different from workshop to workshop.

Will refreshments be provided in the workshop?

Yes. Coffee, tea, water and some light snacks will be available in the workshop.

What’s your refund/cancellation/transfer policy?

Unfortunately, ECD Certified Consultants don’t offer refunds for this workshop experience.
However, you may send someone else in your place to this workshop if you cannot attend for any reason.
You must notify your Workshop host that you will not attend the workshop and the name of the person that will attend in your spot.
If you cannot attend the workshop, and no one attends in your place, the Workshop host will post your ECD Emotional Leadership Workshop Kit to you (Value 199 USD) – so you don’t miss out completely.
If the Workshop Host cancels this workshop, you will be transferred to the next available workshop. You can contact the Workshop host for a refund if you cannot attend the revised workshop date.

What is The Emotional Culture Deck?

The Emotional Culture Deck (ECD) is the number one game in the world for better workplace culture designed by riders&elephants.

Used by over 400,000 people in over 55+ countries, it is a uniquely powerful way to create human conversations about what really matters in the workplace.

The game facilitates face-to-face human conversations about what matters. It nudges vulnerability. Builds empathy. Creates connections and fosters trust within teams.

It's the ultimate card game toolkit for more successful and human workplaces.

Click here to learn more about The ECD and watch the origin story video below of the founder of riders&elephants sharing the story behind the game.

Date and time

Monday 3rd April

9:00 AM – 1:00 PM NZST

Location

Willeston Conference Centre

Level 11

15 Willeston Street

Call Active House

Wellington 6011

New Zealand

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