Power Play
Shift power to accelerate productivity and performance
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Power Play is a bold, immersive experience using Forum Theatre to explore and transform power dynamics, so teams can innovate, productively collaborate and outpace the competition.
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It goes far beyond traditional team-based training, engaging participants emotionally and practically - creating sustainable, structural culture change.​
Workplaces are changing, but are they?
Experiences and expressions of exclusion, disrespect, intersecting disadvantage, inflexibility and the misuse of power have been normalised and are as persistent as ever. Hidden power imbalances are quietly dragging down productivity and profits. New ways to affect change are needed, now.​
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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.
What's unique about Power Play?​
You want something that's ready-to-go but specific to your organisation. Power Play has you covered with an end-to-end approach to:
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Different Needs, Unique Outcomes
​Outcomes for team members
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Gain a foundational understanding of how power dynamics shape workplace experiences and outcomes, team performance and overall productivity.
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Learn to identify and address personal biases and behaviours that contribute to exclusion and hold others back.
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Develop strategies for advocating for themselves and others in challenging power dynamics.
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Enhance skills to build allyship and collective action for intersectional inclusion and equity.
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Recognise and articulate the impact of systemic inequities on personal and organisational well-being and performance.
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Team Leaders, People Managers
You’re accountable for results, risk, and reputation. Yet engagement is lagging, trust is fragile, and the same culture issues resurface. Power Play equips your leaders to lead differently — through a visceral experience that shifts mindsets and behaviours, not just awareness.
​Outcomes for leaders
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Understand how positional power influences team dynamics and workplace performance.
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Build skills to recognise and challenge exclusionary practices, bias, and micro-aggressions in day-to-day operations.
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Learn techniques to foster psychological safety and inclusive decision-making in teams, to drive collaboration and productivity.
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Develop the ability to facilitate difficult conversations about power, privilege, and equity.
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Gain tools to advocate for and implement inclusive practices in performance management, recruitment, and career development so that individuals and teams can boost their productivity and performance.
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Boards & Senior Executives
The consequences of issues with workplace culture land in the boardroom: risk exposure, brand damage, lost talent, shareholder activism, missed targets.
Power Play surfaces risk, builds capability, and creates long-term value, through enhanced productivity and superior performance.
​Outcomes for Boards & ExCo leaders
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Develop a critical understanding of how systems of power are constructed, maintained, and disrupted in organisations.
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Recognise personal and institutional blind spots in the exercise of power and privilege.
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Identify the opportunities for improved productivity and performance through the lens of power dynamics.
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Learn to role-model inclusive leadership by actively dismantling structural barriers and biases.
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Build skills to sponsor and advocate for systemic inclusion and equity.
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Enhance ability to make courageous decisions that challenge the status quo and prioritise long-term inclusion and equity outcomes.
