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The Inner & Outer Game of Leadership

A four-day arc that pairs personal transformation with trust-driven action — the inner ground and the outer practice, integrated.

This four-day intensive equips leaders to drive transformation by working both games at once: the inner game of personal reflection, and the outer game of trust-driven, coordinated action.

It moves deliberately — from the narratives that quietly limit a leader, through the listening that builds genuine connection, into the language of action and a working model of trust, and finally to embedding all of it in how a team actually operates.

Reflective dialogue runs throughout, so insight and action reinforce each other rather than living in separate rooms.

Type
Four-day intensive
Format
4 days, in-house
For
Leaders driving change
The structure

What happens in the room

Day 1

The inner game — foundations of personal transformation

Morning
Self-limiting narratives

How internal stories shape leadership behaviour, and surfacing the hidden assumptions a leader operates from.

Afternoon
Listening deeply to build connection

Deep listening as the foundational skill for trust and engagement, practised with real feedback.

Day 2

The outer game — trust through conversations for action

Morning
The language of action

Requests, promises and declarations as the moves that create alignment and reliability.

Afternoon
The trust framework

Trust resolved into four workable dimensions — involvement, integrity, reliability, competence — and applied to real experience.

Day 3

Integrating inner and outer worlds

Morning
Balancing reflection and action

Working the tension between thinking and doing, with the trust framework giving it structure.

Afternoon
Trust-based accountability

Designing accountability for a real team project, with integrity, reliability and involvement made explicit.

Day 4

Embedding transformation

Morning
Visioning through trust

Co-creating a vision that carries the trust dimensions and concrete commitments.

Afternoon
Commitments & close

Individual action plans, critiqued against the trust framework, with real buy-in to sustain the change.

What participants leave with

Outcomes

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