Culture Days
Designed For: Leaders and Their Intact Teams (Remote, hybrid or, geographically localized teams)
Format: Highly Interactive, Facilitator-Led (Live in-person or virtual)
Duration: From a Half-Day to Two Days (The two-day option is for in-person experiences only)
Program Size: Up to 40 Participants for the Virtual Option (No size limits for the in-person experience
Program Overview
Corporate culture refers to the implicit rules, beliefs, rituals and behaviours that shape where, how and what work gets done in an organization or team. Leaders play a crucial role in setting the cultural tone for their team or organization. In addition, individual team members and teams as a whole reinforce culture, often without being consciously aware of it.
This flagship experience combines the techniques and tools from positive psychology, appreciative inquiry and social sciences to help you and your team discover your unique team culture.
Your team will leave the experience with an inspiring, concrete plan to make your shared vision for a brighter future a reality.
Learning Outcomes:
- Enhance communication
- Accelerate trust
- Leverage individual team member strengths for high-impact performance
- Enhance innovation through psychological safety
- Increase discretionary effort/engagement
- Eliminate silo thinking and behaviour
- Make better decisions more efficiently
- Develop systems for solving problems
- Transform conflict into high-impact collaboration
- Align your team culture to your values, vision and goals
- Develop a greater sense of team pride
- Develop culture champions
- Have fun with a purpose
- Celebrate the best of your team, organization and work
The Program Components
A Cultural Exploration
Using concepts drawn from the work of corporate culture expert Dr. Edgar Schein, with methods drawn from sociology, team members will explore their culture through a photographic “Cultural Exploration”.
Teams uncover their unspoken beliefs, values, norms, assumptions and behaviour by discovering clues (artifacts) within your organization or group. This interactive experience focuses on how culture shapes work and most importantly, how team members play critical roles as cultural ambassadors.
At Our Best Interviews
Combining approaches from positive psychology and appreciative inquiry, your team will work in small groups to discover the mindsets and behaviours already associated with your unique team culture; often invisible but in plain sight.
Through this “Fresh Eyes” discovery process, your team will gain a greater appreciation for what is already working well, learn how to capitalize on those strengths and create an action plan to amplify your best culture with pride.
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Culture Design
Professors Sigal Barsade and Olivia A. O’Neill were among the first to write about the strong and direct link between how employees feel at work and their level of engagement, productivity and collaboration.
Building on one or more program components described above, team members tap into and strengthen those emotions that positively shape culture.
Culture Mapping
Taking from the work already completed in A Cultural Exploration, At Our Best Interviews and the EQ Culture Design experiences, your team will populate a custom-designed wall map depicting your inspired team culture. This culture map will help the team focus on what matters most, while serving as an inspirational action plan for creating your ideal team culture.
Turn your culture map into a powerful immersive takeaway through the magic of augmented reality or virtual reality.
Included in Your Investment:
- All materials, activities, supplies and guest facilitators to make this an unforgettable team-building experience
- Access to our proprietary six-week, science-backed Forward Momentum Program; a custom-designed, digital, post-workshop program to ensure that the learning sticks and you proudly meet your goals
- A beautiful, digitally rendered team culture map complete with all the teams’ insights to keep the learning alive following the session
- A 40-minute telephone consultation for event sponsors, following the program to ensure you get the most from your investment
Looking For Something Extra?
Here are Some of Our Most Popular Experience Add-Ons:
- A strengths-based team assessment
- An experiential workshop on crucial topics that matter most to employees ranging from creating trust and psychological safety and win-win negotiations to mastering hybrid work
- Inclusive, participatory experiences such as building bicycles for a children’s charity, finding your teams’ rhythm in a drum circle, indulging in a secret food tour, collaborating in a custom-designed whodunnit mystery experience or stretching your legs and brain in a custom-themed adventure hunt, to name a few
- Gifting your team with ethical swag
- Themed or experiential meals
- A stunning graphic recording or whiteboard animation that captures all of the key learnings and team insights that will quickly become a treasured keepsake by your team
- Take learning to an entirely new level with augmented and or virtual reality takeaway assets
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Natalie on several projects. Most recently, I hired her to help me lead my new team. Natalie is an absolute joy to work with. Her insights and coaching helped me see both the big picture and make the tactical changes necessary to lead my new and growing team. The response from my group based on my new leadership approach has been incredible! Team morale and productivity have never been better.
I highly recommend Natalie for her leadership development and team-development work.
Julie Berlin
Director Workforce Development, St. Anthony Foundation