We had people tell us they would go home and try the exercise with their families, employees share that it was the best session they had ever participated in during their time here, leaders requesting to use the deck with their teams and some big a-ha moments created for leaders that have shifted their relationships with their employees and how they can create a more positive employee experience through change – the ECD played a huge role in all of this!
"A lot of organisations struggle to make culture real: what do values truly mean? What does performance look like? But it’s much easier to start with ‘how do I feel’ then work outwards to ‘what shall we do’. The Emotional Culture Deck is a powerful way to make empathy a key part of how you deliver success."
Dani got some incredible feedback after running her first ever Emotional Culture Deck workshop in their latest Datacom Bootcamp with 24 leaders – "it was the highlight of the two-day Bootcamp"
At Harmoney we have been using theEmotional Culture Deck and what it has shown us is that sharing emotions actually makes our agile team retros more fun and helps create stimulating conversations about what supports change.
“I’ve been blown away by the team culture work we've done this pre season. No sporting team I’ve ever been involved in as a player or coach has gone through through this type of work."
"Yes yes yes – it was a really interesting experience. The sounds of some eyes rolling at the start of the process was bewilderingly deafening but the results showed the power of the tool. One of the big surprises was our merry team of fishermen landing on a leading emotion of Love! Made my heart swell as they shared their stories and commitments they would like to live into."
"I have never felt so close to my team mates. Suddenly we were able to have time to reflect on our emotions but also we could build empathy for each other. Can’t wait to see how it would impact our day to day interactions as a team."
"I wanted to do something different when it comes to the way we talk about and work together to strengthen our team culture. Part of this was doing something to bring the team closer together with regards to understanding the way in which emotions impact us at work both positively and negatively"
"We held two 2-hour sessions where everyone in our company used the card deck as prompts to talk about their emotional motivators and 'demotivators'. We then applied those desirable and undesirable feelings to scenarios relevant to our daily work environment."
Smart organisations, especially those competing in global markets, know that empowering people to co-create their workplace culture is far more effective than exerting top-down control. The Emotional Culture Deck and supporting tools are designed to enable the conversations and reflection that help make this happen.
"We can figure out where they are with their journey with CanTeen. When they first walk through the door, their emotions will be very different than in three months’ time, six months and nine months’ time. Based on what we uncover by using the deck with them, we might be able to tailor specific support around what that person needs, quickly and more easily.” – Kerrie Waby, CanTeen Youth Support Coordinator
"I enjoyed how easy it was to flow from one 'subject' to another in the workshop using the deck. The time seemed to fly by. It was great how using the deck allowed all of us to be fully immersed in the discussion about the type of culture we want to create to be successful."
