+61 9555 7955Humanise the workplace with the emotional culture deck
Looking to improve the culture of your organisation but not sure where to start?
Recent research has shown that emotional culture, not cognitive culture, is crucial to organisational performance.
When companies identify the key drivers of their employees, engagement, productivity and employee retention increases. But there is a significant communication and empathy gap in many workplaces.
To bridge this gap, the Emotional Culture Deck offers a brilliantly simple card-based tool for structured face-to-face conversations that help people redesign their workplace experience and culture.
Map your emotional culture
“Studies show the significant impact emotions have on how people perform tasks, how engaged and creative they are, how committed they are to their organisations, and how they make decisions.” – HBR
The Emotional Culture Deck offers a brilliantly simple card-based tool for structured face-to-face conversations that help people redesign their workplace experience and culture.
Used by 100,000 leaders in over 40 countries, the Emotional Culture Deck takes a research-backed approach that is simple yet powerful, flexible and fun!
The emotional culture deck offers actionable insights for leaders
The Emotional Culture Deck can be used one-on-one to build empathy and foster trust, or as part of a programme of change towards an empathy-driven, emotionally intelligent workplace culture that drives organisational success.
It is designed to explore the following questions:
How do your people need to feel (and not feel) to be successful, connected and resilient?
How can leaders become more empathetic, recognising emotions in the workplace and consciously shaping them?
What steps can you take to make that a reality?
What practical measures can you take to ensure your remote teams are connected and unified?
How does the emotional culture of your leadership team impact the way you lead your people and the culture you want to foster within your wider business?
How can you get to the heart of your stakeholder relationships and improve how you deliver for them?
Solutions Showcase
Solution 1 - Create cultural shift in large LGA
The challenge
- Amalgamation of multiple LGAs had resulted in cultural challenges.
- Executive identified self-awareness as integral to being able to best serve their people and the community.
Our solution
- An in-depth needs analysis.
- ½ day ECD workshop included as part of larger program.
- Combined with emotional intelligence profiling.
- Created a change in language around leadership within the organisation.
Solution 2 - Help P&C team reset after seismic organisational changes
The challenge
- Significant pressures on P&C team post-change resulting in breakdown of trust.
Our solution
- Delivery of a one-day in-house workshop focused on collaboration and team building.
- Included a 2.5-hour ECD session.
- P&C team worked together to define the environment they wanted to create to be successful at work.
- Created a shared language and narrative that galvanised the team and rebuilt trust.
Solution 3 - Change program for a leadership team
The challenge
- Engagement survey identified issues with employees not feeling valued or heard through departmental change.
- We were asked to provide a one-day professional development day.
Our solution
- In-house workshop incorporated the ECD and change style profiling.
- Focus on communicating through change and helping leaders understand the underlying emotions and concerns that drive resistance to change.
Popular Emotional Culture Deck Workshops
Neural Networks facilitates workshops using the Emotional Culture Deck, as standalone events and as part of our leadership programs. The workshops, which are hands-on, interactive, and remarkably easy to set up, explore mapping the emotional culture of your organisation through to navigating change.
Leaders Workshop
This workshop is designed to bring your leaders together and help them create a better connection and understanding between themselves and with their people, which nudges them to develop and grow.
By playing with The Emotional Culture Deck in this workshop, we’ll nudge your leaders to:
- Explore and learn about the role emotion plays in culture, leadership and high-performing teams
- Become more empathetic and conscious of their team cultures
- Work together to define how they want to lead their people and the environment they believe they need to create for people and teams to be successful
- Establish a new mechanism that leaders can use to help your leadership team continue to develop and grow
Design Your Team Culture Workshop
The ‘Map your emotional culture’ workshop is designed to be a hands-on interactive way for the team to come together to co-create the culture of their team.
The objective of the workshop is to map the emotional culture of your team, explore how you support each other, the culture of your team and the way you work together.
Through this workshop we will help:
- Individuals understand their motivations, desires, needs and fears at work, plus their teammates
- Build greater empathy for each other
- Reinforce the great cultural things that already exist within the team and environment
If you’d like to try before you buy, you can download a free Lo-fi PDF version of the deck here.
Frequently Asked Questions About the ECD
You can use the ECD to explore and map both what your team are feeling and how they want to feel.
The ECD can create a safe and supportive environment for discussing emotions by approaching the subject in a non-threatening, structured, and engaging way.
A typical session using the deck can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours.
It's a deck of cards with various prompts and questions that stimulate discussions about culture, leadership, and individual experiences.
Blog Posts About the ECD
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The Emotional Culture Workshop is designed to be a hands-on interactive way for teams to come together to co-create the culture of their team.
There is plenty to read online regarding hybrid work arrangements, impact on leadership styles and organisational culture.