Emergenetics: Meeting of the Minds

As organisations increasingly turn to remote work and employees collaborate as dispersed teams, it’s even more essential that leaders, managers, team members and individual contributors receive the tools they need to strengthen communication, productivity and engagement.

This blended program facilitates increased understanding through personal knowledge of how thinking and behavior affect the work environment - including productivity, team effectiveness and creativity.

Utilising the scientifically-developed and robust Emergenetics® personality questionnaire and model, leaders and individuals learn to leverage their own strengths and develop awareness of what others bring to the table. Teams discover how to communicate and work more effectively by harnessing diverse perspectives.

Companies around the world have used Emergenetics®: Meeting of the Minds to experience a multifaceted approach for building knowledge, fostering understanding and bolstering organizational capacity.

Prerequisites

Participants should have:

• Completed their online Emergenetics® questionnaire and associated 45-minute eLearning module prior to attending the workshop.

Target audience

Leaders at all levels, individual contributors and team members who want to develop their self-awareness and social awareness, identify and utilise their strengths more effectively, communicate with greater impact, and drive great teamwork.

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Identify what’s meant by ‘preference’, and what it means to work in and out of preference
• Recap on the behavioral and thinking attributes and explore them in more depth
• Work together to explore the diversity of different preferences and how they interact with each other
• Identify the importance of considering both intent and impact when working and communicating with others
• Work together to apply the concepts from the workshop
• Create a personal dashboard to support application in the workplace

Online element:

1. Completion of Emergenetics® questionnaire
2. Short e-learning module covering:
   1. About Emergenetics® and the profile
   2. Behavioral attributes
   3. Thinking attributes
   4. Types of profile
   5. The numbers of Emergenetics®

Workshop:

Topic 1: What do we mean by ‘preference’?

• What do we mean by ‘preference’ in personality profiling?
• What does it mean to work in and out of your preferences?

Topic 2: Emergenetics® attributes revisited

• Recap on learning about the behavioral and thinking attributes covered in the pre-course eLearning.
• Participative activities to explore the attributes in more depth and build greater understanding.

Topic 3: If this room were a brain. . .

• Interactive activities to explore the diversity of behavioural and thinking preferences.
• How our preferences impact our own behavior and others.
• How to best work to your strengths and brilliances.

Topic 4: Intent vs impact

• How our, and other people’s, intentions and actual impact can become misaligned, leading to misunderstandings and conflict.
• How we can ensure that our intent and impact are aligned and understood.

Topic 5: Summary activity

• A fun, team-based activity to explore the importance of diversity in thinking and behaviour, and to identify how the knowledge from the program can be used to maximise leadership, individual, communication and/or team effectiveness.

Exams and assessments

There are no formal exams or graded assessments in this course. Participants will engage in practical exercises, live practice, and reflective activities to consolidate learning outcomes.

Hands-on learning

This progam includes:

• Group exercises to build understanding and fluidity in utilising the Emergenetics® concepts
• Scenarios to analyse real-world challenges and responses
• Guided discussions and peer learning to exchange strategies and experiences
• Individual reflection and planning to support the transfer of learning into action