Managing the Darkside Masterclass
Enables teams to learn about the ‘dark side’ of personality and behaviours that ‘derail’ success.
Establishing and maintaining quality working relationships is becoming increasingly challenging due to the sheer volume of modern-day pressures: investing in the effectiveness of organisational teams has never been so crucial.
High-performing teams communicate and collaborate with intent and purpose. They know when to ask for help, how to offer support and which behaviours are helpful and unhelpful in achieving results. When it comes to driving progress, a deep awareness of self and others is tantamount.
However, when we are feeling pressure, not considering our impact on others, or just reacting to a situation, we may behave in ways that get in the way of team success. The ‘Managing the Dark-Side’ Masterclass enables a team to learn about the ‘dark side’ of personality and behaviours that ‘derail’ success. It is primarily concerned with helping participants a) develop an understanding of the psychology behind our actions and reactions and b) utilise these insights as a team to agree new strategies and, ultimately, improve their collective efficiency and productivity.
Managing the Darkside Workshop
During the workshop, an Advanced People Strategies (APS) facilitator guides participants through activities and interactive discussions that reflect typical approaches to team problem solving and business challenges. With a key focus on successful collaboration, participants are provided with an overview of their team’s Hogan Development Survey data (Dark-Side tendencies) to explore the impact and risks of under-use as well as overuse. The workshop concludes with building an impactful action plan ready for immediate implementation.
Our objectives are to:
Provide teams with a safe environment to explore team risks and threats to success.
Raise awareness of why the ‘dark sides’ of individual personalities manifest and how to manage behaviour in the interest of the collective.
Empower team members to be proactive and accountable, leading to high quality communication and collaboration.
The impact of 'personalities under pressure' on group performance
The 'Managing the Dark-Side' masterclass utilises scientific evidence obtained from completing the Hogan Development Survey (HDS) to delve into the shadows of predicted personality-based derailers, identifying patterns across a team to facilitate reflective and strategic development planning.
Client Reviews
"Following the team session exploring HDS trends, we made immediate changes to the way we work and restructured how we run our team meetings. The data made it clear which behaviours we needed to focus on improving, to ensure we continue our high performance as a team. The discussions enabled us to move forward with addressing underlying conflict within the team and we’ve made great progress since."
Paul Edwards
Director of Field Engineering & Operations, Virgin Media O2
"We suggested the Hogan assessments for a team that was struggling to manage their different communication styles, which was impacting their overall effectiveness. The team members enjoyed receiving their individual reports and found it really helpful to explore how their results fitted within the team dynamics during the team insights workshop. Mike did an excellent job facilitating the session. He really brought the results to life and made it engaging. The way he presented things and discussed them, pointing out the most impactful areas to think about, created some light bulb moments for them and has delivered real value to their performance."
Sara Estevez Cores
Group Sr People Development Consultant.
"The workshop "team insights masterclass" brought us as a group of experienced, international managers with different backgrounds, be it as site lead or functional lead, closer together and created a collaborative spirit. Our individual strengths and development opportunities were presented in a very clear way with the help of our facilitator Joey from APS, so that in sum we can better read and understand our different types of motivators and inner drivers. Equipped with this knowledge, it is now easier for us to support each other with increased efficiency in order to make not only our own organisation but also the higher-level organisation and thus the company as a whole even more successful."
Daniel Gyr
Senior Director HR | Head of Labour Relations.
"Suitability, in terms of the business owning a common set of motives and values has been at the core of how we have built our board and our senior leadership team. Melvyn’s understanding of our organisation, the challenges of how we all work together and add to our dynamic has been instrumental in our success. His calm considered and thoughtful style has helped us change some of our thinking, in how we communicate with each other and how to deliver messages to our people with considerably more confidence. The more we know about ourselves and how we interact with each other and the wider business, the better we have become. We will continue to engage with Melvyn and the APS team as we embark on the next phase of our growth."
Chris Barnes
People & Organisational Development Director.
"APS engaged to understand our challenges, tailoring the interactive session, really energising and focusing the group on what we could do individually and collectively to be more effective. They brought the data to life and made it meaningful, helping us increase trust. We are now talking about what’s next!"
Dr Nasrin Hafezparast
Co-founder & Chief Clinical Data Officer
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