- |Who is Leadership Moves for?
- Any team that works together in an environment where communication is key, and wants to do it better. That can be a leadership or management team, or a manager taking part alongside the team they lead day to day. Everyone experiences all roles, whatever their title. The session will be insightful, fun, and likely something very different from many other team development trainings. It works best when there is already a solid degree of psychological safety, or a real intent to build it.
- |How large should the team be?
- There is no minimum. The maximum is when the group loses the intimacy needed to gain some real insights, which is usually about 12 people. Gender composition is irrelevant — leading and following are functional, not gendered, roles.
- |Do we need any experience?
- None. No preparation or athletic ability, just an open mind. Movement is limited to the equivalent of taking a walk or shaking hands with someone.
- |Do we have to perform or learn choreography?
- No — nothing to memorise, and nothing to get right in front of anyone. Simple partner movement is the method; what you learn about how your team leads, follows, and communicates is the point.
- |Is there salsa dancing involved?
- I'm a salsa dancer, and that's where the whole idea comes from — but no, there's no salsa in the room. (Depending on how you feel about salsa, that's either a relief or a disappointment.) The method is simple partner movement: nothing to learn in advance, no routine to perform.
- |Do I have to get close to my colleagues?
- Not really — no closer than shaking hands. There's no classic partner dance hold, nothing intimate. The most contact in the whole session is a light hand-to-hand hold, the kind you'd use to shake hands; some of the work uses no contact at all — just eye contact and standing near each other. You stay in your own space throughout, and you're never asked to be nearer to anyone than you'd be in an ordinary working moment.
- |What actually happens in a session?
- The session runs from half a day to a day depending on the size of your team, in person, at your premises or in an external location of your choice (to be discussed in the briefing call). It's hands-on, with equal importance given to the movement experience and the intellectual reflection and synthesis of lessons learnt. Working in pairs and small groups, you go through a series of simple movement exercises, each one a stand-in for something that plays out in your team all the time — leading, following, reading another person, handing the lead back and forth. The movement is deliberately easy, so nothing rests on skill; your attention stays on what it reveals.
The rhythm is move, then reflect: after each one we stop and talk through what you noticed and what it mirrors back at work — that's where the real insight lands and where this is not just fun but real learning. What the team notices is captured as you go, and the shared picture you build together is written up and sent to you afterwards. Informative, surprising, and by every account so far genuinely good fun. - |What does a team leave with?
- Three insights — me, you, and us.
Me: each person experiences how they show up under pressure — when they step up to lead, when they ease back to follow, and how automatic it all is. You: each person feels what it's like in the other role, to lead and to be led — the kind of empathy you can only get by experiencing it. Us: a shared understanding and language for how the team works together, its “corporate dance”. This is documented alongside the facilitator's outside-in observations of the day and a short agenda you can run with the team yourself as follow-up, so what happened in the room gets picked up again rather than quietly filed. - |Where does it take place?
- Anywhere private where everyone can move around freely. A large meeting room with the table pushed to the side works perfectly, as does any venue you arrange — during an offsite, for example. All we need is room to move, some chairs set in a circle, and a clear stretch of wall for notes. We also use music, so somewhere that's fine to play it. One thing worth considering: somewhere the team won't be overlooked by people outside it — a little privacy helps everyone be open.
- |How do we get started?
- Start a conversation — tell us about your team and what you're navigating right now, and we'll take it from there.