Art of Participatory Leadership 2025 Geneva

How can we create safe and collaborative spaces and purposely lead ourselves and our organisations into the future?

Unlock the potential of your team members in complex settings. Streamline communication and minimise conflicting priorities. Instead of reacting, learn how to proactively engage with your organisation and listen actively. Discover how to save energy, foster goodwill, and accelerate productivity to propel your work forward.

You may face challenges with:

Silo thinking and political infighting
Cross-functional teams prioritising their function over the team, or vice versa
Virtual teams struggling to produce results and wasting energy
Integrating new teams and individuals after a merger
Complacency and occasional apathy within pockets of your organisation
Implementing and sustaining lasting change
Fostering a culture of innovation
Lack of engagement or apparent resistance to change
Lack of engagement/ apparent resistance to change
These obstacles reduce effectiveness and can lead to resistance. Our workshop offers practical methods and approaches to transform these dynamics and enhance effectiveness.

Boosting Effectiveness: Unleashing Group Dynamics

Join our workshop for a structured process, tools, and design-thinking methods that ignite group and organisational dynamics. From individuals to teams, organisations, and communities, our practices scale seamlessly. Guided by core values like respect, partnership, collaboration, and accountability, we facilitate meaningful conversations with groups of any size, from hundreds to just four participants.

Experience and master techniques such as Leadership Presence, World Café, Open Space Technology, Design for Action, and Appreciative Inquiry. Gain insights on when and how to effectively employ each technique.

Through practical exercises, tackle real-world complexities and achieve alignment and actionable outcomes. Apply your newfound knowledge immediately upon returning to work.

Ao Pl Geneva 2024 Harvesting Book

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Empowering Leadership Across Roles and Sectors:

Our methods and techniques empower leadership at all levels. Participants from various roles and situations have experienced the benefits:

Roles:	Situations:
Managing Directors Transformation & Change Leaders Functional Directors Facilitators Managers Project Managers Teams	Reorganisations Disruptive political or cultural shifts (internal and external) Shifting stakeholder demands (internal and external) Mergers & Acquisitions Multi-dimensional matrix organisations Lengthening supply chains with shorter timelines

Over the past 11 editions, participants have joined us from diverse locations, including Argentina, Chile, Bangladesh, New Zealand, Sudan and local attendees who walked to the venue. Over 30 nationalities have been represented, showcasing the richness and global reach of our approach.
We value diversity as it enriches interactions and demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach in engaging participants with varied backgrounds. Our participants come from multinational organisations, corporations, mid-size firms, NGOs, and individuals. We have also had entire companies attend our workshop, utilising it to develop projects and strategies for organisational advancement.

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The Art of Participatory Leadership is distilled from tens of thousands of workshops worldwide, using techniques proven to elicit the best from groups and individuals. Focussed particularly on work in and with organisations, it has proven its effectiveness in contexts as diverse as the EU (where thousands in the EU commission have been trained to use the practices); the Americas (from corporate settings in Ohio to municipal government in Canada, and cities and companies in Brazil); South East Asia (Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia); and Africa (Egypt, Zimbabwe and Ivory Coast).

In Switzerland we have seen it grow in corporate settings such as Swarovski, Zufall Logistics, Zumtobel; NGO and SME settings such as WWF, IUCN, Business School Lausanne, the Paul Scherrer Institute and Z02 Architects; as well as in non-organisational life by individuals, coaches and students.

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