A structured intervention that has been shown to deliver tangible benefits.
Enhanced team functioning
Increased cohesion and connectedness
Greater inclusiveness and alignment
Improved well-being and mental health
What are the 5Rs?
Readying
Why does ‘we’ matter?
We provide a platform for the programme as a whole by working through some of the key ideas set out in the New Psychology of Leadership, and the science that underpins it. Learn about leadership as a group process that centres around a sense of shared identity between leaders and followers (as sense of ‘us’).
Reflecting
Who are we?
Learn about social identity mapping as a process to reflect on teams from the perspective of their members. This will give you insight into their roles, their identities, and their different influences —all of which contribute to their experiences at work, and your experiences of leading them.
Representing
What are we about and what do we want to be?
Learn the process of representing the groups you lead. We draw on research which shows that people are much more willing to embrace a sense of shared identity when this is something that they have helped to create rather than something that has been imposed upon them.
Realising
How do we become what we want to be?
Learn the process of realising a group’s potential by clarifying shared goals as well as strategies and structures for achieving them. Informed by research, which shows that groups are far more likely to persevere in their pursuit of goals if these are goals that its members have agreed upon, and hence collectively ‘own’.
Reinforcing
How can we be better?
Ensure that leadership is ethical, healthy and sustained. We note that identity leadership is something that leaders always have to work at, and that “good” leadership is as much about identity content (what ‘us’ means) as it is about identity process (building and promoting a sense of ‘us’).
