Emotional Leadership Development Course - Online Cohort Based

I already have over 50 ECD cards - to do the course, it would have been good to have an option of just purchasing the canvases / conversation guides rather than extra ECD cards which I didn't really need.

The ECD Emotional Leadership Development Course offers valuable resources and concepts which are inspiring and practical to apply in the workplace.

The ECD Emotional Leadership Development Course challenged my old ways of thinking of leadership as being a set of character traits, cultivated habits of mind and core processes. Emotional leadership is about shaping the culture of teams and organisations when leaders understand and influence emotions - their own and those of others. The interactions to do this are simple and small and make a big difference and I look forward to sharing what I have learnt to benefit others.

Having worked on Leadership Development for a very long time, it is always exciting and refreshing to approach training from a new perspective. I am also shifting from a coach and trainer who begun working with teams holistically incorporating the physical and mental with a look at emotions too, to prioritising emotions as the biggest part of what I do. Because they are the driver for the actions we choose to take. This course has given me not only the structure to be able to upgrade and be creative with the various training I do but also a set of tools to be able to offer clients that will make the outcomes and success sustainable.

I deliver our Whanaungatanga Programme (WP), for kaimahi hou/new staff and we had our inaugural WP for 2025, Monday and Tuesday this week. I used the pdf of the R&E ECD Te Reo Card desk which Denise Hartley-Wilkins had kindly emailed me, and the result was our kaimahi hou/new staff took to it like a master carver to a beautiful piece of pounamu (changing up the ‘ducks to water’ idiom ‍♀️). The fact that we were able to include Te Reo Māori was absolutely incredible and added substantively to the overall experience. Background/lessons in preparations for our session: Unfortunately, I tried and failed to turn the pdf into card decks myself for each participant, they looked awful, and I ran out of time. I didn’t want to miss out on this opportunity, so I decided to instead print each page as an A3 poster and put these up for our kaimahi to see on our whiteboard (I know it’s not what we’d ideally like to see, next time I’ll have actual cards for each of them ). The attending kaimahi ranged from having been in the organisation for three months to having started day 1 of the WP, this Monday. (We deliver site inductions at their work site from day 1 of employment and follow up with the WP approach after that, usually). ECD Approach taken: I used the following instructions or questions/patai across different parts of the two-day programme; Choose three feelings that describe your experience of being recruited into Te Piki Oranga, and, Choose three feelings that describe your experience with us once you came on board as kaimahi (or for the brand new kaimahi hou, ‘Describe how you would like to feel over the next month’). I also asked that they choose a feeling to represent how they each felt on day 1 of the WP, and at the end of day 2; the conclusion of the programme. I followed up each of the above patai/questions with ‘Describe what it was that made you feel this way’, which we addressed when we had time later in the programme (Day 2). I added instructions that they may wish to share the answers to these patai/questions with the rōpu/group when the time came, or they can choose not to do so and korero/discuss with me when it worked for them as a different way to feedback. Or alternatively, choose not to feedback at all. I left that decision totally up to them and said to go with whatever felt most comfortable at the time. I also let them know this was a completely new approach and we were learning as we went and encouraged them to raise anything they were unsure or uncomfortable about (interestingly, no one raised anything, they just picked up the wero/challenge and went for it! ) Launching a new, developing session: I was introducing a new session on Te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi and which also included a discussion of allyship - what a valued ally looks and feels like in our interactions with them. 75% of our kaimahi are Māori/mana whenua, the rest are Tangata Tiriti/treaty partners and allies.*The Treaty of Waitangi, for those outside of NZ, is an international treaty signed between many iwi (Māori), and the crown (Britain). This is our founding document and what Tā/Sir Mason Durie has described as NZ’s first ever social policy document. Our kaimahi work closely with multiple external agencies; the staff of many of which are active allies of our mana whenua. However, some are not and our kaimahi are too often confronted with demands to know why Māori need their own hauora/health delivery mechanisms, and other comments in a similar vein, and many of our kaimahi do not know how, or even if, they should respond. This new session is intended to be a response to this hazard, supporting our kaimahi to mitigate the ongoing impacts of this behavior and safely navigate these complexities. (Basically, the answer to why Māori need separate services is because it’s guaranteed under Te Tiriti, because mainstream services often disadvantage Māori, and culturally appropriate hauora/health services can reach and support those no other services can reach and effect real change with). We don’t expect our kaimahi to tackle this themselves, unless they wish to do so. We offer to address this at higher levels within the organisations concerned and instead encourage our kaimahi to not engage with this kind of behavior. Our current political climate has exacerbated this particular challenge for organisations’ working in this field and for our kaimahi within Te Piki Oranga. The Te Tiriti & allies session turned out to be an amazing session, the kaimahi really engaged with it. I think the focus on emotions throughout the programe prior to this helped them to synergize as a rōpu/group/cohort and meant they themselves took this kaupapa/topic to a level I hadn’t imagined. This can potentially be quite a fraught topic for many reasons, one such reason is that plenty of research has shown that our mana whenua carry the additional ‘tax’ [burden?], of having to educate everyone else. I had introduced this concept as well as an amazing piece of work that highlights the foundations of being a good Treaty Partner - **”17 Habits of a Valued Treaty Partner” by Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna'i, and conversely provided some ideas for our mana whenua to utilize, if they so choose, when working with allies, both internally and externally. The result of this session was so amazing that I’m going to ask this rōpu/cohort to become champions to assist other kaimahi throughout our organisation to understand and successfully navigate this kaupapa. To model what this looks and feels like when it’s done well, and how to navigate any feelings and challenges that arise. A huge win in my book. Thanks ECD & Jeremy!

This was a great course and I believe it should be one that someone should take if they are interested in leadership development.

This course has been a real eye-opener for me. Before starting, I didn’t fully understand how much emotions impact leadership and workplace culture. It has shown me that how people feel at work is just as important, when it comes to engagement, teamwork, and performance. One of the things I really appreciated about the course was how practical and hands-on it was. The Emotional Culture Deck isn’t just a theoretical concept, it’s a tool that actually helps spark meaningful conversations and build stronger team connections. Seeing it in action during the sessions helped me realise how powerful it is in bringing out honesty, vulnerability, and trust within teams. At first, I wasn’t sure how comfortable I’d be leading conversations around emotions, but as I went through the course, my confidence grew. I now see that emotional leadership isn’t about having all the answers, it’s about creating a space where people feel safe to express themselves. That’s a huge mindset shift for me, and it’s something I know will make a difference in how I lead moving forward. Overall, the course has given me a new perspective on leadership, and I’m excited to keep building on what I’ve learned to create a more open and emotionally aware workplace.

Loved the format! Very easy to work through and follow and great to make reflections at different touchpoints throughout. I really enjoyed understanding the different ways to tool can be used.

The Leadership Development Course is a wonderful tool to have in your pocket not just for HR and Trainers, but for leaders who are really wanting to make an impact on their organisation. We often think alignment on vision mission and values is the key - but this work does not talk to what any of this looks like. Starting from a place of how we want our people to feel at work can help create and drive the narrative to align clearly outlining what is acceptable and what is not.

This is a great course! It was great for my self-development and shifted my mindset and perspective in a lot of ways. I look forward to using what I learned to help others.

Bite-size learning that provides both visual, auditory and written content that is easy to digest. The learn and play is instrumental - curated time to explore and reflect in the moment was magic.

The Emotional Leadership Development Course has been extremely insightful as it first shifts existing paradigms about who a leader is and what a leader does to how leaders feel and how they want their people to feel. The course fills the much-needed gap in training people to build more emotionally intelligent teams and organisations as while emotions are complex and often avoided, the discussions and conversations can be uncomplicated and the actions towards consistent change are also simple.

The group got a lot of value from considering the cognitive and emotional culture.

Very thought provoking

I thought it was well paced - with excellent resources and though provoking discussion. Lots of learning!

This was my 3rd ECD course, and it did not disappoint. I learned about a few new tools, I learned how to incorporate other tools in new ways, and it gave me fresh perspective and motivation on how to take what I've learned out to my organization.

It's greeeat - so easy to understand, follow and apply. I looooved it! :x

The ECD Leadership Development Course has been an invaluable experience, providing a fresh perspective on the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership.he course effectively highlighted the profound impact leaders have on the emotional well-being of their teams and provided practical tools and strategies to cultivate a positive and empowering environment. I highly recommend this course to any leader seeking to enhance their emotional leadership skills and create a more engaged and fulfilled team.

Thorough, systematic, active learning throughtout. Loved it.

A great approach to develop self awareness in the workplace.

very well done high quality

This course really opened my mind to a whole new way of using the ECD with leadership teams. The canvases and tools were so powerful and I am extremely excited to start using them with my clients to shine a light on emotional culture and re-humanise workplaces

Emotional Leadership Development Course is a great toolkit for both new and seasoned managers, looking to enhance emotional culture within their team and organization.

The course helps to fully understand the breadth of flexibilty available with the tools, guides on how to use for best results, but also encourages freedom to play.

It was a good recap. I enjoyed the pace and length of the lessons. Jeremy has the ability to mix excitement and engagement with a measured delivery style that's easy to connect with. I liked having a transcript I could click on anytime. I found some of the resource links worked and others didn't.

I found the course to be educational and personally insightful and would definitely recommend to others on their leadership journey.

The course is well structured with relevant content. It gives us a wonderful, pliable tool to alter as we see fit to best suit the situation. The tools used appear relevant in a team, work, home or even personal environment. I am looking forward to utilising what I have learned.

This course was insightful, fun and opens your eyes to what it truly means to be connected with your team. Such a clean, simplistic and effective "card game" that re deigns and challenges what you thought leadership is and helps create a new style of leadership! ECD helps guide what once was a difficult interaction with emotional direction to help support your team! Highly recommend!

Great opportunity to reflect and recognise emotional culture as a tool for addressing and managing a wide range of issues.

Very interesting concept and definitely has given me some tools and resources to be a better leader.

I really enjoyed the journey. Great insights that provides tools for practical application while allowing for flexibility.

The emotional leadership development course provides tactile and tangible ways to analyse your own and team emotions, as well as to reflect on and anticipate the emotions of others.

I feel the course is fabulous as refresher for experienced/ positively demonstrated people leaders and definitely a must for any new leader.

An insightful leadership program assisting established and aspiring leaders to better manage teams and their emotional culture.

Its a different perspective to leading.

great. bit repetitive

The ECD Leadership development course is a triumph in the simplicity of showing up using feelings to help navigate conversations and then creating desired rituals and actions to ensure we are feeling what we need to to be successful. A wonderful guide and tool for a leader to be able to use in 1;1's and bigger team settings.

I found it was somewhat beneficial and has changed some of my thoughts on the emotional connection between work and people's output

It has been an eye-opening experience. The Course helped me to realise how important it is to acknowledge peoples' emotions and understand how they drive our behaviour. It has a potential to bring 'human face' to institutional settings.

Once you are open to considering your and other's emotions in the workplace, the basic concept of the course is very simple and deceptively powerful. Over the three months of the course, I can see the change in myself and feel a stronger connection to my team as a result.

I've invested some time in developing myself and my leadership skills which is an ongoing journey. I found the focus on emotions an interesting angle. I'm keen to use the tools in helping engage with the team on some change management.

The course provided useful tools to help set and maintain an effective emotional temperature for a team

A great tool for any aspiring Leader

such a simple concept but incredibly powerful and empowering.

It is a simple, logical, practical and easy to apply approach to enhancing the capability of leaders

I enjoyed the listening to the perspectives of others

The ECD Emotional Leadership Development Course was insightful and transformative. It provided valuable tools to understand and manage emotions, both personally and within a team. The practical exercises helped build self-awareness and strengthen communication, which are essential for effective leadership. Overall, it was a well-structured course that fostered growth and connection.

My experience of undertaking the ECD Emotional Leadership Development Course has been extremely positive. The content and delivery have been thought provoking and engaging, with the concepts and ideas being interspersed with practical activities to embed learnings and encourage the participants to explore ideas and practice implementing the tools. I am grateful to my employer for embracing and valuing this training and making it available to leaders - it has increased my confidence in the organisation as a place I want to stay working in. I wish everyone in my organisation could participate!

I was mildly sceptical at first but chose to have a positive mindset about it and was surprised at the outcome

I found the ECD Emotional Leadership Development Course to be extremely thought-provoking, which ultimately led me to develop competency in applying an emotional leadership approach in my team. After just the very first session with my team, there was a noticeable lift in team spirit and connectedness. I look forward to promoting enduring practice of emotional leadership.

I feel that this course is highly beneficial as a leader and also as an individual as it gives some great insights into how we can be better leaders through emotional culture in an uncomplicated way.

Lots of practical tools to apply to a whole range of leadership situations, challenges and strategy.

This has been a fantastic course; it's taken me gently by the hand and walked me through how to make the best use of the ECD and enabled me to discover aspects about myself as a person and as a leader that have been incredibly valuable. As a leader in a modern, evolving work environment ECD should be an essential tool in a leadership practice to enable leading with empathy and developing a genuine understanding of a team, which can only lead to better outcomes for the leader and the team.

I've enjoyed the course, it's been insightful for me in a new leadership role. It gives some structure where otherwise these thoughts are just musings, which has helped me to frame up the options to move forward from tricky spaces.

When leading a team is how deeply emotions influence team dynamics and performance. Recognising and addressing emotions, both individually and collectively, can significantly improve communication, collaboration, and overall effectiveness.

The ECD Emotional Leadership Development Course was insightful, thought provoking and provided pragmatic tools that can be used and scaled for many leadership scenarios.

Great course, the combo of inclass and online has been well thought out. Paced well to ensure continued engaged - stretched our too much longer could mean it is less effective.

I've invested some time in developing myself and my leadership skills which is an ongoing journey. I found the focus on emotions an interesting angle. I'm keen to use the tools in helping engage with the team on some change management.

A very interesting and thought provoking course

The ECD Emotional Leadership Development Course has taught me the importance of emotion in managing people and teams. I have learnt that it is up to me as a leader to establish the collective emotions that my team needs to thrive. Small actions can have big impacts.

A progressive journey from understanding my own emotional landscape and that of the team and practical tools to work with these to influence improvements to the emotional culture of my workplace.

The course has helped me to better understand myself as a leader and how to more effectively understand and lead my people to create a positive work culture. It has also provided a tool to open dialogue with my teams to explore and better understand their emotional needs at work and how I can help create an environment in the workplace to help them succeed.

I found the curse very informative and helpful. I loved the prompts and reminders, they kept me on track. Katherine Riddock and Richard Day were awesome facilitators and mentors and broke it down for me into relatable and usable content

This course provided me a comprehensive insight into how human emotions can influence organisational culture in a positive or negative way. It equips individuals and leaders with a skillset to recognise and practise positive emotions that are key to building a successful team and to realise the negative ones and manage them

Excellent course, fun to get so involved in your own emotions and those of your teams and how they can be flipped to influence positive growth and team success. Really enjoyed the group sessions and interactions across the room. Facilitator shared many personal stories that put a real-world sense to the learning. Great take away tools and the card deck is a great talking point - good conversation kick starter! Thank you.

Was a good course to learn new skills

Really good course overall. Each section was clearly well prepared, thought through and presented. The extra information and resources were fantastic.

I really enjoyed the content, the ECD and the associated handbooks and online content is great and easy to navigate. I will recomend for current and future leaders in my team.

Extremely beneficial, eye opening and thought provoking. I have completed other leadership and management courses before but none that focussed on emotional culture.

This is the first leadership course I have participated in that focusses on emotions and the value in creating a positive emotional culture in the workplace.

This course is a game-changer, if you're wanting to elevate your leadership skills! It opened my eyes to the power of emotional intelligence in leadership, the power of emotional contagion and how labelling will enable people to express themselves like never before. The lessons are immediately applicable, the reflections are creating ah-ha moments which is contributing to a positive shift in how I lead and connect with my team. I thoroughly enjoyed doing this, so thank you.

I loved completing ECD Emotional Leadership Development Course, so many incredible gems and reminder of the power of ECD for individuals, teams and organisations. An awesome refresher and created a fire in my belly to create opportunities to use it in my work.

Such a great, practical, and insightful course. It's a great introduction to bringing emotions into the leadership domain and how to translate it into the leadership experience.

This course inspired and empowered me to integrate ECD into all aspects of our organisation, from onboarding clients and team syncs to business planning. Emotional culture was already an organisational priority for me, but now I feel more clear and confident in exactly how to go about that.

The course was insightful and inspiring. It provided multiple invitations for experimentation and it was really helpful to understand how to apply the ECD in real life, in multiple ways. I can tell the learning journey has only just begun and I realise now, that it's not about the destination. It's the rich learning by applying that makes the journey worthwhile, in order to be a better version of myself and a better leader.