Your Leadership Team Uplevelled…
After over two decades of working with senior leadership teams, we know that a high degree of competency in the following skillsets are fundamental for an organisation to deliver upon its mission. We can help your leadership team develop and hone these skills so you can have the impact you want…
Communication
How well do you achieve shared understanding with clarity, safety and the impact you intended?
Visionary Thinking
How well do you think outside the systems and beyond your own limiting beliefs and perspectives?
Emotional Management
How well do you identify, manage and process your emotions without impacting others?
Change Management
How well do you cope with change? How well do you bring about change for and in others?
Leadership
How well do you lead yourself to achieve your goals and how well do you lead those around you?
Achieving Equality
How well can you identify harm and oppression, and then do something about it?
Learning with Mission Equality is not ‘business as usual’; it’s business, leadership and learning done differently. You can read more about our approach and find answers to the most commonly asked questions we hear below. If you still have a question, get in touch with us and we’ll be happy to answer it.
Build On Solid Foundations…
We know that many organisations with progressive and visionary missions – and those looking to do things differently – are founded upon the passion and visions of a small founding team. Growing and scaling beyond this is typically what makes or breaks an organisation because what’s needed to take an idea from nothing to something is not the same thing that’s needed to set it up for long term impact and to deliver on its mission in the fullest of ways. If this is you, we can help.
Frameworks & Principles
Draft frameworks and principles to help you design and define your own organisational capabilities, in alignment with your organisational and operational values.
Policies & Processes
Draft policies and processes for you to customise and refine ready to operationalise, and with foundational principles of equality already integrated for you.
Operational Support
Hands-on support for your leadership team to implement and operationalise the capabilities you need to build a scalable and sustainable organisation.
Operationalising your vision – at scale and for sustainability – requires solid foundations that are not typically the priority of an early stage start-up. We can help you shift from startup to scaleup and put in place the foundations you need to thrive.
In A Thriving Ecosystem…
Organisations looking to do business differently and deliver on a progressive, visionary mission often struggle to thrive because we all still operate within the current systems designed to prevent such impact.
To overcome this and help your organisation thrive, we can support you to build your own ecosystem around you – we call this an “Equality Alliance” – designed to help you and your fellow alliance members thrive together.
Equality Champions
Additional learning journeys and skills development for your organisation’s designated Equality Champion to learn how to lead to equality.
Collective Co-Creation
Facilitated group support for your organisation’s Equality Champion to co-design and co-create a working Equality Alliance you can all thrive within.
Shared Learning
Connection and communication across all alliances, to share learning and build relationships across borders, industries and cultures.
Challenging the status quo and replacing an entire system requires trying things we’ve never tried before, at all levels. Our goal is to create space for this experimentation and collaboration so that we can all participate in co-creating a system in which everyone – individual and collective – can thrive. Would you like to join us?
FAQs
Who is this for?
Mission Equality CIC supports organisations with visionary missions, committed to ‘doing things differently’, in both the for-profit or non-profit sectors.
What do you mean by 'doing business differently'?
The status quo created and upheld by the dominant systems of today serves very few of us; in fact it serves only the 1% well (and even then, does it really?). The rest of us? Not so much.
Doing business differently means a deep exploration of whether the way we do business today helps us all thrive equally, and what changes are needed in the way we ‘do business’ so that we can.
What do you mean by 'doing leadership differently'?
Most approaches to leadership are based upon a paradigm of power and control; doing leadership differently means shifting to lead from a paradigm of trust and freedom.
In our experience, this shift has the most significant beneficial impact upon the results your organisation can achieve.
How can this approach change things if the systems are fundamentally broken?
The systems we operate within aren’t actually broken, they’re doing exactly what they were designed to do…to maintain themselves and to uphold unequal power dynamics. Unfortunately, they don’t truly benefit anyone…even those who continue to hold the power and are afraid of what it would mean to lose it.
Organisations and workplaces are ecosystems; when we design and build these ecosystems differently – so that everyone within them can thrive – we have an opportunity to experiment with and test alternative models which might work better. The more of these we create, the more viable alternatives we have to work with and improve.
Imagine if the world of work was full of organisations which operated differently; it is absolutely possible for systemic change to become a reality. And we have to start somewhere, so this is where we’re starting.
Why equality and not equity?
Equity is a step along the path to equality; equity focuses on giving everybody what they need to get to the same starting line. Equality is an entirely different kind of environment in which everybody already has everything they need to thrive.
If you struggle to make sense of this, you’ll fully and deeply understand the distinction when you sign up to learn and train with us.
How does this training work?
We have designed a range of ‘Missions’ – daily and weekly – which your team can work through at their own pace and/or in facilitated group sessions.
What are the daily missions?
Think of these as ‘micro’ learning – short missions that’ll take no more than 5-10 minutes each day to help you update your knowledge and put your learning into action ‘on the job’ with focused, targeted missions that stack for success.
What are the weekly missions?
We can create a custom curriculum with facilitated weekly team learning missions, tailored to your leadership team’s needs. For example, week 1 could focus on decolonising work, week 2 on emotional management, week 3 on communication and week 4 on integration and application.
How is this different from other leadership training programmes?
The skills our members gain, by default, support the creation of workplaces and ecosystems founded upon equality…where everyone has what they need to thrive and achieve the impact they want.
This is leadership training that focuses on reconnecting us with our humanity. We support leaders to operate with respect and kindness AND to see, value and treat everyone with the equality with which we want to be seen, valued and treated ourselves.
Is this DEI training?
No; this is leadership training designed to equip people with the kinds of skills we know are needed to do things differently, and thrive in a different kind of workplace while simultaneously creating it around you. It’s also the kind of training designed to help organisations with progressive and visionary missions actually deliver upon them.
These skills can support your organisation to create a more diverse, equitable, equal and inclusive workplace because this is integrated, by default, into all our educational and training resources.
We've already invested in DEI/we're no longer investing in DEI. How is this different?
While the learning at Mission Equality equips your people with the skills needed to ‘do DEI’ to progressive, world class standards, it isn’t as a ‘nice to have’ add on. The skills people gain at Mission Equality result in a fundamental shift in leadership – and how people show up and work – that inherently facilitates a more impactful, inclusive and equal environment around them. This is DEI done differently by not doing DEI at all.
Ready to get started?
We are currently in pre-launch and participation is by invitation only. If you’d like to discuss participation in future cohorts, get in touch. If you have funding or are being funded to participate in the first cohort, please set up your membership here.