Build a culture of design rather than default

Understand each other's motivations, needs and fears at work

Invigorate energy, excitement and humour into your workplace

Build a vision of your team's ideal emotional culture

Forward thinking businesses are bringing their teams together to collaborate and collectively define and design a culture that support their success

A robust, year-long holistic employee wellbeing programme, designed to maximise employee performance, at the same time optimising health and happiness. 

DISC is the world's #1 behavioural assessment, taken by millions of people every year and is estimated to be in use by 75% of Fortune 500 companies.

Design Your Workplace Culture

Redefine your culture after Covid

As we see the country struggle with severe labour shortages, pushing wages up and giving employees incredible bargaining power, now is the time for employers to invest in their employees.

With 59% of Kiwi's believing now is a good time to find a new job (findings from 2022 Gallup State of the World Report) -  workplace culture could be the make or break between your team staying or looking for new opportunities. We are a social species and it's important we feel like we belong, as part of a team and positively contributing to the success of the organisation.  

With teams finally coming together after months of working from home, they are not coming back to the same place they left. Now is the time to bring the team together to redefine your workplace culture and discuss what success looks like in the 'new world'.

Years of research reveals that positive workplace culture is one of the most important driving factors of business success. It leads to higher productivity, better employee engagement, and higher returns but many organisations leave their cultures to come about by default.

Forward thinking businesses are bringing their teams together to collaborate and collectively define and design a culture that support their success. See below for more information on the transformative 'Map My Emotional Culture' workshop.

What is an Emotional Culture?


For decades companies have focused purely on the cognitive culture -  but that is only half the conversation. The other half (and maybe the most important part) of any team culture is the emotional culture. It is critical because it is the power factor that determines and influences employee satisfaction, burnout, teamwork, customer service and even hard measures such as financial performance and absenteeism.

When companies identify the key emotional drivers of their employees not only does engagement excel and morale improve, but productivity and employee retention increases resulting in bottom-line profits going up.

Let's face it; Kiwis aren't great at discussing emotions — and many companies don't even care how their employees are feeling. So long as they're getting the work done, why worry?

Those companies are well behind the times.


Forward-thinking Kiwi businesses such as Air NZ, Westpac, NZ Rugby, XERO and even Netflix all understand that the emotional culture is as vital as the cognitive culture - visions, values and assumptions.

When the team comes to work every day feeling connected, inspired, motivated and focused they are able to bring their full selves to work.



"Every organisation has an emotional culture, even if it's one of suppression"

HBR Business Review. Sigal Barsade & Olivia A. O'Neill

ECD Workshops

200,000+ people in 40+ countries look to the ECD resources to break the silence and transform their team performance, will you be next?


WholeME Workplace Wellbeing

After a challenging few years, New Zealanders' wellbeing is at an all time low. Research shows us, time and time again the important part wellbeing plays in individual performance, attitude, innovation, creativity and team work. 

Introducing,

WholeME, a robust, year-long holistic employee wellbeing programme, designed to maximise employee performance, at the same time optimising health and happiness. 

Our wellbeing calendar offers workshops to support all four aspects of wellbeing: mental, emotional, physical and spiritual (similar to the te whare tapa whā model).  As with any ecosystem, each part is interdependent and relies on the health of the others in order to truly thrive. 

Many forward this thinking companies are investing in the four dimensional approach including EY, Merck, Ralph Lauren, Virgin Pulse, Microsoft and Sales force.

The future of health is taking a holistic view, join us to lead the way forward

Why WholeME?

  • Consistently scheduled + consistent messaging
  • Available online and face to face
  • Take a proactive, preventative approach to wellbeing
  • 90 minute sessions + Q&A
  • Qualified, experienced facilitators with corporate backgrounds
  • Science based, practical, interactive sessions
  • Excellent Testimonials available

What is DISC?

DISC is the world's #1 behavioural assessment, taken by millions of people every year and is estimated to be in use by 75% of Fortune 500 companies. DISC is a very simple yet powerful four-quadrant framework used to articulate the common ways that all human beings tend to behave and communicate.

DISC explores the question: How do we prefer to behave and communicate


As we know, teams are made up of individuals with different behavioural and working styles. Taking the time to learn about our own tendencies and others preferences is key to achieving real team work and results.

DISC is a very versatile tool commonly used in the following functions:

  • Team Collaboration/Effectiveness
  • Leadership Development
  • Communication Effectiveness
  • Recruitment and Selection
  • Position Benchmarking
  • Sales Development
  • Customer Service Training
  • Coaching
  • Engagement/Motivation
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Culture/Transformation
  • Personal Effectiveness

We offer workshops in:

Understanding People

(colleagues, clients and stakeholders) 

Did you know we can observe people's behaviour by the way they walk, talks, their facial expressions or how they stand in line.

We can work with you to develop a workshop on how to recognise and identify others behavioural styles and adapt and blend your style for greater and more effective communication and relationships.

Understanding Colleagues

We offer a workshop using DISC that provides a common language to help your team better understand one another and work together.

We will give your team strategies to deal with conflict effectively by learning adaptive behaviours

This workshop acts as a springboard for conversation and team building and helps to develop strategies to maximize cooperation - with not just the team but also customers and stakeholders.

Leadership Development

Leadership is the business of people. We can work with your leaders to help them develop a better understanding of themselves, their colleagues and how they can work more effectively together.

Everywhere in the world, leadership depends on the ability of the leader to understand how to work with the people around them. The most effective leaders know their team: what strengths they possess, how they prefer to go about their work, and what activities will excite or deflate them.

People are multi-faceted, your approach to leadership should be too

Additional Tools and Resources Available

DISC CPBA

Accredited

The world's #1 behavioural assessment. Taken by millions of people every year and estimated to be in use by 75% of Fortune 500 companies. DISC is a very simple yet powerful four quadrant framework used to articulate the common ways that all human beings tend to behave and communicate. 


Motivators CPMA

Accredited

Arguably the most important (and most overlooked) aspect of human personality. The most powerful motivation comes from within — from our core values. Yet, very few people can articulate their own values or are aware that all values can be traced back to half a dozen primary motivators.


Emotional Quotient CPEQA

Accredited

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a hot topic in business. EI is considered to be one of the most desirable characteristics to have in an employee or leader. Based on the Goleman model, the TTI EQ provides a simple and user-friendly model for business people to understand and develop EI.


Testimonials

Zhan Spalding

SKYCITY GROUP EXECUTIVE MANAGER

On behalf of the Team I would like to thank you for a great workshop. We all enjoyed the topic as well as the delivery and have learned a lot about ourselves as well as others in the team. I am sure we all will benefit from it in years to come. 

Gisela Thiele

BSH Sales support manager

I love your enthusiasm and always enjoy being part of your workshops. 

Participant

SKYCITY EMPLOYEE

You created such a relaxed atmosphere, that it felt easy to open up and share our opinions/views. I believe the facilitator, played a huge part in creating this atmosphere.