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Workshops · Emerging Leaders

Lead yourself. Lead relationships.
Lead people.

Our Emerging Leaders workshops help new and developing leaders build the human skills that create trust, strengthen relationships and bring out the best in the people around them.

New managersMiddle leadersHighly interactive

Three levels, in order

Leadership starts closer to home than most programs admit.

  1. 01

    Lead yourself

    How you show up, communicate and look after your own wellbeing. Everything downstream starts here.

  2. 02

    Lead relationships

    Trust, psychological safety and the one-to-one work that turns a group of people into a team.

  3. 03

    Lead people

    Galvanising a team around shared purpose, and creating the conditions for others to do their best work.

A participant in a blazer laughing mid-conversation during a Better Us Project workshop

Who it's for

The people who were promoted for their craft, and now lead the team.

New managers finding their feet. Middle leaders holding the space between strategy and delivery. Anyone stepping into greater responsibility for other people.

It's the hardest transition in any organisation, and the one most people are left to work out alone.

  • First people-leadership role
  • New and developing managers
  • Middle leaders
  • Stepping into more responsibility

Experiential, not theoretical

What they walk out with.

Through highly interactive, practical and experiential learning, participants explore what it takes to build connected teams, shape positive culture and create environments where people feel valued, supported and able to contribute at their best.

We focus on both personal and collective wellbeing, helping leaders understand how the way they show up, communicate, connect and care for themselves has a ripple effect across the people they lead.

  • Galvanise a team

    Practical tools, activities and strategies to bring people together around a shared purpose.

  • Strengthen connection

    Ways to build trust and create psychological safety, one conversation at a time.

  • Use it immediately

    Not theory to file away. Things to try in the next one-on-one.

  • Ripple effect

    How the way you show up, communicate, connect and care for yourself shapes the people you lead.

A Better Us Project facilitator smiling as a participant, seen from behind, raises both hands mid-activity

How it actually feels

Nobody sits through this one. They are in it, from the first ten minutes.

Emerging leaders arrive expecting to be talked at. What they get is a room where they have to say something, try something, and find out what they already think. It is the fastest way we know to turn a group of individuals into people who will speak up in front of each other.

Mid-session, on their feet

Who it’s for

Emerging leaders, new managers, middle leaders and people stepping into greater responsibility.

Because great leadership isn’t just about getting people moving. It’s about creating the conditions for people to thrive together, grow together and move as one.

“Great leaders don't just understand the work in front of them. They understand the people beside them, what drives them, what connects them, and what helps them thrive.”

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