Business Consultancy
Business Consultancy
Business Consultancy
What is the Dare to Lead ™ Programme?
How do we develop braver more daring leaders? How do you embed the value of courage in your culture to navigate change and drive performance results?
Based on the research of Dr Brené Brown, Dare to Lead™ is an empirically based courage-building program for Leaders and Change Agents.
Leadership courage is a collection of four learnt skills. In eight sessions you will learn how to build brave cultures & drive performance by:
+ Navigating Vulnerability
+ Leading with Values
+ Building Trust
+ Rising from Setbacks
Participants explore Dr Brené Brown’s research, complete a leadership assessment and learn how to connect, navigate difficult conversations and hold other’s accountable for success.
Culture Change Consultancy
Working in a dysfunctional culture is stressful, exhausting and will be impacting negatively on your people as well as your bottom line. Echo chambers, gossiping, stress-related absenteeism, destructive conflict, low employee engagement, high bullying scores and dwindling profit margins are all signs that your culture has shifted into some unhealthy dynamics and it’s not going to change without the right intervention.
Withinsight offers an extensive process of pre and post assessments to ensure we are solving the right problems and driving sustainable change.
Download your 5 step guide to building a Brave Culture.
What people say
Speaking Library
If you are organising a conference, team seminar or looking for inspiration to uplift and energise your team day then Antoinette could be your gal. You can expect humour, an evidence base and for your audiance to leave her company intrigued, energised and curious to learn more.
She speaks regularly about:
Daring Leadership
Building Courageous Cultures
It’s courage not confidence you are looking for!
Courage, Connection and Emotion Contagious
If you have a topic in mind and wish to explore it with her, feel free to get in touch. She loves a creative challenge.
who we work with
our BUSINESS partners
In 2017, I noticed an increase in the number of my clients who were complaining of poor line management and/or lack of adequate training in their new leadership role. I was intrigued by Brené’s empirically based approach to leadership. In 2019, I had privilege of being trained by her as a Dare to Lead facilitator. I wanted answers to two questions: how we develop braver, more daring leaders and how do we embed the value of courage into corporate culture. For the answer to these questions and to register for the next Dare to Lead programme click here. The Dare to Lead Programme™
Withinsight is a proud partner to B1G1 in their mission to do good business by offering simple, impactful ways we can all make a tangible difference in the world. With more than a decade of work, this simple idea has now become a global movement.
For larger transformation programmes Antoinette is proud to work with her Mind at Work colleagues.
“Cultural change is a million acts of courage and kindness. That’s the only way our culture has ever changed, and it’s the only way it ever will”
Faq’s
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The first question I ask in a cultural consultation is: Is courage building a priority in this organisation?
• If the answer to that question is NO then it’s possible that your organisation is not yet ready to commit to a cultural change programme delivered in partnership with Withinsight. That is fine and dandy. If later on down the line you wish to get back in touch you know where to find us.
• If the answer is, I don’t know. What actually is courage building ? Then I can spend some time with you and your senior leaders to explain what is meant by courage building and how this one skill, when prioritised and committed to, can indeed shift an entire organisation.
• If the answer is YES then we can proceed, using our diagnostic tools, to identify where you are performing well and where the real problems lie. Withinsight uses a data based approach to identify what is working and what needs attending to. We continue to gauge progress using this same tool. At the end of our time together we will evaluate what’s been learned, changed, embedded, shifted and what do we need to keep working on to ensure this progress continues. We also offer further activities to keep the work alive in the organisation and keep spreading those courage skills. Courage is contagious after all.
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I believe you need to put the education where the power lies and that is in the senior leadership team of every organisation. Undoubtedly, the most effective and economical way to shift an entire culture is to run a leadership diagnostic of the C-suite and Senior leadership team, take them through a transformational leadership programme together and then cascade this learning down through their teams. However, I also understand that this is a big commitment. If it feels like too big of a commitment then you can run a pilot programme with a group of willing leaders and use them to see what they learn and what they identify as needing to change in the organisation as a result of what they have learned in the Dare to Lead Programme.
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If your leadership training programme is providing the necessary learning and your senior leaders are modelling an elite, high performing team aligned with your cultural values then all power to your Idris elbow. If however you feel there is something missing or you recognise unhealthy behaviours in yourself or your leaders then maybe getting an external perspective and exploring a new to learning a new approach may shake things up. Withinsight often works in partnership with HR and Learning and Development Teams to ensure that what you offer your senior leaders is complimentary with other training programmes and aligned with the over arching strategic leadership development goals.
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This is something I hear a lot and this tells me that your current culture falls into fire fighting and as a result , your leaders are vulnerable to burn out. Investing in leadership training builds loyalty by showing your leaders you are interested in them not just for their performative value but in them as a whole person. Giving leaders the time to work on perpetual business issues with some allocated space and with some support of an external facilitator resolves issues more quickly and more effectively. Giving your leaders the opportunity to learn for themselves and from each other increases team cohesion and trust. High trust teams perform better and make better business decisions. I could on but you get the idea.
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