Emergenetics for Teams

Real, definable brain science is one major way that Emergenetics stands out from the crowd. If you’re someone who needs the facts and the data, it’s all right here. Even if you’re not a science person, Emergenetics history and background will give you a great understanding of why it was created and how it works.

Emergenetics begins with an online assessment which is taken around 2 weeks before the actual workshop. In the actual Meeting of the Minds workshop, participants are guided through a step-by-step process – interspersed with a lot of activities, through which the thinking and the behavior attributes are brought to life.

Once individual reports are shared and clarified suitably by participants, the workshop then moves on to showcase the diversity within the team on the different attributes. The workshop is a revealing and surprising experience for participants. "Oh yes, now I understand!!" (followed by lot of laughter and gasps of disbelief) is an often-heard refrain in these workshops. The workshops are also very rich in contextually relevant discussions on attitudes and reactions of different people to change, conflict, etc. For Leaders in the room, the workshop gives deep insights on people and how best to manage & coach them.

Who you are today is a result of certain characteristics that have emerged from your life experiences, plus the genetics with which you were born. This interplay of nature and nurture was termed as Emergenetics by its founders, Geil Browning & Wendell Williams. We come to the world genetically wired in a certain way. Because of our environment though, we may or may not grow up the way those genetics programmed us to do. Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate asserts that up to 70% of the variation between individuals is due to genetics. Because the brain is ultimately responsible for how we think and behave, Emergenetics is based on the latest brain research.

You can download a program overview from each of the topic pages. While this will give you an overall workshop structure, our learning designers will still need to talk with you to customize the workshop to your context.

Every single workshop (except the asynchronous self-paced modules) is customized to the precise customer need and brief. Our client advisory team will work closely with you to understand your context and pass it on to the execution team.