How long is a leadership workshop?

Our in-house leadership workshops run from a half-day to two days, depending on the topic and how much practice you want built in. They can be one-off or part of a short series.

How much does an in-house leadership workshop cost in New Zealand?

It depends on the length of the workshop, how much tailoring is needed and whether profiles such as DISC are included. Archetype quotes each workshop up front so you know the full cost before you book.

What topics can a leadership workshop cover?

Common topics are leadership essentials for new leaders, feedback, accountability conversations, coaching skills, psychological safety and trust, leading under pressure with DISC, delegation, leading teams, and turning strategy into priorities. Each workshop is tailored to your organisation.

What is the difference between an in-house workshop and a public course?

A public course mixes people from different organisations on a fixed date. An in-house workshop is only for your people, runs when and where suits you, and uses your organisation's situations, which makes it easier to apply at work.

Where do you run leadership workshops?

We run workshops at your premises or a venue you choose, in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton and across New Zealand.

In-House Leadership Workshops

Archetype Leadership + Teams runs in-house leadership workshops for managers and leaders at workplaces across New Zealand, including Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Workshops run from a half-day to two days and are tailored to your organisation before we start. Each focuses on one area of leadership, such as feedback, accountability or coaching skills.

A workshop is often the easiest way to begin developing your leaders. It builds a specific skill, and you can see the difference it makes before deciding whether to do more.

Talk to Tony about a workshop

How our workshops work

Our in-house leadership developed workshops are tailored to suit your needs.

Only your people. We run workshops for one organisation at a time, so people can talk openly about real situations.
Tailored first. We talk with you before the workshop and adapt the content and examples to your organisation.
Practical. Leaders practise with situations they actually face, and each person leaves with goals and habits to work on.
Flexible. A half-day, a full day, two days, as a one-off or a short series.

Workshop topics

An in-house leadership development workshop is extremely flexible. As well as flexible formats the content - what topics are included - is flexible and can be tailored to suit your needs.

Once we understand the needs of your leaders we will prepare a draft content plan. for you to consider.

Here are the range of potential leadership development workshop topics …

Leadership essentials for new leaders

What leadership is, the difference between managing and leading, positional authority versus influence, and how to run good one-to-ones. Suits team leaders, new managers and emerging leaders.

Feedback that improves performance

How to give reinforcing and redirective feedback that is clear, specific and useful, and how to use CPR (content, pattern, relationship) feedback when the same problem keeps coming back.

How effective leaders give feedback

Accountability conversations

Clear, calm, direct conversations about performance and commitments, practised on live examples, and the "above the line" behaviour that makes accountability part of how a team works.

What is accountability?

Leaders as coaches

What coaching is, how it differs from mentoring, the coaching mindset, three core coaching skills and the TGROW coaching framework, with plenty of practice.

Leaders as coaches workshop

Psychological safety and trust

What psychological safety is, why it matters for performance, and how trust is built and eroded, so people speak up, challenge well and solve problems earlier.

Leading under pressure, with DISC

Each person completes a DISC profile and learns their natural style, what they do more or less of under pressure, and how that affects the people they lead.

DISC Profiles

Delegation

How to delegate so the work gets done by the right person at the right level, without it landing back on your desk.

Leading teams

The development journey teams go through, the Five Behaviours of high-performing teams (trust, productive conflict, commitment, accountability and results), and how to create direction and alignment in a team.

Strategy to priorities

Turning strategy into clear team priorities, with the meeting rhythms, decision-making and follow-through that keep a team delivering.

What a workshop costs

Each workshop is quoted up front, including tailoring and preparation and any profiles such as DISC, so you know the full cost before you book.

From a workshop to a programme

Some organisations want to go further after a workshop. A programme links a series of workshops, usually about a month apart, with one-to-one coaching for each leader in between. You can add workshops one at a time.

In-house leadership development programmes

Who facilitates

Workshops are designed and facilitated by Tony Gardner (Auckland-based) or Emma Holderness (Wellington). Tony is a former CEO and board chair with more than a decade of facilitating and coaching leaders; Emma is a former Chief People Officer and Royal New Zealand Air Force officer.

“Tony provided us with delegation skills workshops for senior members of our firm. The content was perfectly tailored to the audience and delivered by him with infectious energy. Highly recommended.”

— Charles Spillane, CEO, Kensington Swan

Recent in-house workshops include delegation workshops for partners and senior associates at Kensington Swan, a DISC profiling workshop for partners and associates at Chapman Tripp, a Leaders as Coaches workshop at CEMIX, and resilience and wellbeing workshops at MGI+MORE.