Hack the deck – 7 ways to use The ECD with families
As we went into Covid-19 lockdown here in New Zealand a couple of months ago, we faced the reality of a new way of family life. Leading up until this point in time, we had been hearing so many heart-warming stories about people using The Emotional Culture Deck with their families. These stories have helped us feel very humbled and proud of what this little deck of cards can achieve. And when lockdown hit we wondered how the ECD might help families face the uncertain times ahead.
So we swiftly hatched a plan to send out 100 Emotional Culture Decks to families around the world for free, to give them a chance to play and experiment with the game and hopefully generate a conversation that helps children and parents thrive in their family environment.
The method is slightly different, but the goal is the same. Use the Emotional Culture Deck to foster as a communication channel between humans, making a tricky conversation just a little bit easier.
Using the
...Change Leadership Workshop for KPMG Enterprise
“Change is not a decision of the mind but of the heart”
We recently designed an Emotional Culture Deck change leadership workshop for 60 KPMG Enterprise leaders here in New Zealand.
Eva Perrone, Innovation Manager at KPMG Private Enterprise shares just how well The Emotional Culture Deck was received at a change leadership workshop with 60 KPMG leaders from around New Zealand.
“The workshop not only opened up communication channels but provided connection and created a safe space for deep and meaningful conversations. Following the two hour session, KPMG leaders were eager and ready to take the cards back to use with their own teams and clients (and some already have!).
Eva is looking forward to continuing her journey with ‘riders & elephants’ as the company integrates the deck and associated tools into their everyday work.
The team is now going to focus on how they can all upskill and reap the benefits that come from pouring energy into the workplace culture. As Eva
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Hurricanes Rugby Pre Season Emotional Culture Deck Workshops
Yesterday we took another leap forward on The Emotional Culture Deck journey with The Hurricanes Rugby squad.
It was such an honour taking this group of elite athletes through The Emotional Culture Deck. As a former professional athlete, I know how difficult it is to open up and talk about emotions and feelings in a team environment. But yesterday we broke the mould and had 40 male professional athletes explore what they want to feel and not feel this upcoming season.
The majority of conversations in teams, whether corporate or sports, revolves around cognitive culture and expected behaviours. But that's only half the conversation. Exploring desired and undesired emotions create connection, empathy and understanding.
Sport (and life) is by nature an emotional game. Elite sport and high performance are all about 'feeling' – both physical feelings like how the ball or bat feels in your hands. But also inner feelings. Our emotions and feelings govern how we perform on and off the fie...
The ROI of Emotional Culture Conversations
Steve Hargreaves has just completed the Emotional Culture Deck Certified Facilitator Training.
He's now officially a Pro Elephant Rider.
Over the past 12 months, Steve has run an astonishing 27 Emotional Culture Deck workshops.
He chats to us about how he approaches the conversation with potential cynics inside your organisation who want to know the ROI of investing in this conversation.
An interview with St John UK Head of Learning & Development
Recently we chatted with Steven Hargreaves – Head of Learning & Development, St John UK and chatted about his experiences talking with people who are cynical about emotions at work and using The Emotional Culture Deck.
Steve attended The London Emotional Culture Deck Masterclass in June 2019. Since then, he's now facilitated over 27 workshops using The ECD and each time he's used it in a slightly different way.
Steve has also just graduated as our very first Pro Elephant Rider in the United Kingdom.
Wellington Firebirds Cricket Team Pre Season Culture Training
It's a privilege to be invited back by the Wellington Firebirds year to help them run their 'pre-season culture training' sessions.
This time 11 years ago, I was starting my professional cricket career and involved in one of these pre-season culture sessions. It left an impression on me for all the wrong reasons.
Looking back, the intent was right. But unfortunately, it divided the team, isolated payers and created a culture of fear (especially for the younger players like me).
At the time, it was difficult to process what occurred, and the experience has stayed with me ever since. But I'm now glad I went through that experience. It has helped shaped my philosophy and the way I design and run team culture sessions – especially for sports teams.
Instead, we now focus on how we better connect people, players and teams. Through the use of #theemotionalculturedeck, we explore the role feeling and emotion plays at an individual level and then how it impacts the desired culture of a te...
So you want to actually feel something meaningful in your work?
Jeremy was invited onto the SuperNova Podcast to chat with Lena Ski about emotions in the workplace and the story behind The Emotional Culture Deck. Check out the interview below.
Click here to listen to the interview: https://soundcloud.com/the_supernova_podcast/064so-you-want-to-actually-feel-something-meaningful-in-your-work
So, you want your work to actually mean something huh? Something meaningful. Something worth waking up for. Something worth staying awake for. Something worthy of your client's needs. Something special. The founder of riders&elephants Jeremy Dean gets you and has got your back - and there's a group of us willing to have that convo with HR. Here's proof that your work can feel like play and do something epic without having to change the whole world. And it sounds a little something like this.
Pre Season Culture Training with Wellington Blaze Cricket Team
Imagine starting a pre-season campaign by coming together as a team to define how you want your environment to feel and not feel this season! I was blown away again by how open and vulnerable players are with each other when going through The Emotional Culture Deck process.
Although we originally designed the ECD to be used in a corporate or business environment, it turns out that it is equally applicable in a sports team environment – because a sports team is made up of human beings, just like a business or corporate team.
Most sports teams completely neglect this conversation about how we should, or should not be feeling within our team environment. Teams tend to focus solely on shared values and behaviours yet skip the most human part of a team’s culture – the #emotionalculture of a team.
Watch this space for more updates on this pre season culture journey.
The Culture Guy podcast interview
Thanks to The Culture Guy aka Benjamin Drury in the UK, for inviting Jeremy onto his podcast to chat about The Emotional Culture Deck amongst other things we're doing in the culture space at riders&elephants.
Listen to our interview here: https://thecultureguy.co.uk/podcast/004/
- Welcome – 1:00
- The Emotional Culture Deck – 4:40
- The Customer Experience Deck – 10:50
- It’s All History – 17:45
- Companies doing the stuff – 27:50
- Netflix Culture Deck – 31:40
- Lion Brewery Flexible Working – 33:05
- Autonomy and Flexibility – 34:30
- Check this out – Resources – 36:00
- Finishing up – 40:00
Show Notes
- Dan and Chip Health – Switch / Made to Stick / Power of Moments
- The Emotional Culture Deck
- Brian Solis
- Crazy Australian Dentist – Paddi Lund
- Dan Kahneman – Thinking Fast and Slow
- Perpetual Guardian
- Daniel Pink – Drive
- Session Lab
- SY Partners
- Culture Amp
- People Geeks Slack Group
- Nobl Slack Group
Canteen and riders&elephants team
How the Emotional Culture Deck helped the youth leadership team from the CanTeen’s Hawkes Bay branch
Young people don’t expect to come face to face with cancer, but they do. Cancer is terrifying for anyone, but for a young person already dealing with what life is throwing at you, cancer – your own or that of a family member – is an unexpected curveball. Dedicated to supporting young people 13-24 come to grips with the emotional and practical toll of cancer, CanTeen gets it.
Earlier this year during one of the Hawke’s Bay branch’s leadership meetings, CanTeen Youth Support Coordinator Kerrie Waby added an agenda item: How to help young people emotionally open and discuss what they felt when they were first diagnosed with cancer.
The opportunity to support CanTeen had come about after meeting with Anthony Gouder from the Hawkes Bay Regional Council during the previous month. Anthony had signed up to test one of our prototyp
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