"Power Play"
Shift power to accelerate productivity and performance
"Power Play" is a bold, immersive Forum Theatre experience that explores and transforms power dynamics, so teams can better collaborate, innovate and outpace the competition.
It goes far beyond traditional team-based training, engaging participants emotionally and practically - creating sustainable, structural culture change.
Workplaces are changing,
but are they?
Workplaces everywhere are changing - AI, hybrid work, productivity pressure, demographic shifts, the effects of geopolitical uncertainty. But exclusion, disrespect, biased decisions, and the misuse of power? Those haven't changed at all. And they sit at the heart of the gap between strategy and people. "Power Play" closes that gap.
You’ve got the policies. The training. The dashboard. But the culture hasn’t shifted - and now it’s costing you talent, trust, and performance. "Power Play" turns performative efforts into real behavioural change, from the inside out.
How does "Power Play" work?
Productivity and performance are held back by exclusion, disrespect, and the misuse of power - and enhanced by inclusion, flexibility, and shared power. It's all about power. "Power Play" uses Forum Theatre to surface how power is held, used, and shared in your organisation - and to reset it, bringing people and strategy genuinely closer together.
1. Assess
Conduct a focused diagnostic to reveal not just what’s happening, but why it’s happening. Go beyond surface-level symptoms to map behavioural patterns, power dynamics, and the systemic enablers that reinforce the status quo. Use data, lived experiences, and leadership insights to create a clear picture of the forces shaping your culture and setting the norms that influence performance and productivity.
2. Activate
Design and deliver the "Power Play" workshop experience that doesn’t simply transfer knowledge but actively disrupts default behaviours. Create safe but challenging spaces where participants confront their own habits, test new responses in real time, and build collective ownership for change. Ensure the experience directly addresses the patterns uncovered in the assessment phase, making the invisible visible and the theoretical practical.
3. Anchor
Convert workshop insights into concrete, sustainable actions by anchoring them into leadership routines, performance systems, and cultural rituals. Establish policies, practices and accountability mechanisms that support leaders and teams to practise and reinforce new behaviours through ongoing reflection, feedback, and targeted capability building. Measure impacts on organisational goals.
Two ways to apply it
Consultation & Discovery
Explore a challenge, co-create a new way forward, and gather broad input - before a direction is set. Ideal for designing new approaches to flexible work, culture, or strategy. "Power Play" creates the conditions for honest, generative conversation that typical consultation processes don't reach.
Mobilising for Change
Bring a new direction to life and get everyone moving together. Ideal when a strategy or change already exists, or is starting soon, and needs people genuinely on board - not just informed. "Power Play" turns passive recipients of change into active co-owners of it.
No heroes. No villains. No right or wrong. Just real workplaces - disrupted in real time, so the change that matters finally sticks.
Six ready-to-go editions
1.
Performance & Productivity
2.
Inclusion & Belonging
3.
Flexible & Hybrid Work
4.
Respect at Work
5.
Digital Transformation
6.
Beyond the Culture Review
Every edition is tailored to your organisation's specific context.
And if your challenge isn't covered above, we design and build new editions around any workplace theme, issue, or strategic priority - from scratch.
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In "Power Play", we challenge ourselves to lean in to the activist roots of Forum Theatre. We want to ignite passionate debate; give voice to diverse and divergent perspectives; speak the unspoken; and hold a mirror up to things that have become easy to ignore.
Tenille Halliday is one of Australia’s most sought after practitioners of the Forum Theatre method, having used it to bring complex challenges, mindsets and behaviours to life in some of the nation’s most significant transformation projects.