Insight AwareBespoke leadership development
Work on the leadership questions that are alive in your organisation, with enough room to notice patterns, try something different and decide what needs to change.
Built around your context
A Lab starts with a conversation about what your leaders are facing. The design brings together coaching psychology, structured dialogue and experiential practice around that question.
Participants work with situations they recognise: a difficult transition, a conversation they keep avoiding, or a pattern that returns whenever the pressure rises. There is room to rehearse a different response and consider what would make it possible at work.
Depending on the context, a Lab can include coaching skills for managers and mentors, or ways to support autonomy and self-leadership in a team. The aim is to help people contribute actively and take ownership, with the direction and support they need.
Possible themes
For managers expected to give direction while the situation is still uncertain, or teams struggling to find a shared way forward.
Practise talking about what is known, what is unresolved and where people can influence the next steps. The intended takeaway is a clearer conversation to have with the team, with actions and responsibilities people can understand.
For leaders who want their everyday behaviour to reflect their values, and who are willing to look honestly at the gaps. Do you listen when challenged, or move quickly to directing?
Use reflection and dialogue to examine strengths, assumptions and skills that need practice. The intended takeaway is a specific development priority and a behaviour to practise, so self-knowledge translates into how you lead others.
For leaders who know how they want to respond but find that pressure takes over in a difficult meeting or conversation.
Explore the physiology of leadership through attention, breath, posture and pace. Practise noticing your responses and staying available to listen. The intended takeaway is a practice you have tried and a real working situation in which to use it.
These are starting points. Themes can be combined or developed around a specific organisational need.
What happens in a Lab
Short inputs introduce useful psychological ideas. Reflection and dialogue connect them to real work. Carefully chosen experiential exercises help participants explore their own responses.
Each Lab closes by translating the learning into specific conversations, choices or team practices. Embodied exercises are invitational and adapted to the group.
Labs can take place in your usual setting or form part of an offsite.
Shape a Lab
Tell me about the group, the challenge and what you would like to be different afterwards. We can work out the right theme, format and depth together.
Discuss a Leadership Lab