CCL Leadership Metaphor Explorer Cards

Leadership Metaphor Explorer is a dynamic activity that enables leadership development as well as advancing goal-setting and monitoring skills to kick-start discussion around different leadership styles.

Produced by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), Leadership Metaphor Explorer is an image metaphor activity that stimulates creative and insightful conversations about leadership. This expansion pack contains one set of cards - to include the full, detailed facilitators guide with an in-depth analysis for using the cards, click here.

Developed by one of the Top Ranking Business Schools in the world, the Center for Creative Leaderships (CCL), the Leadership Metaphor Explorer is a card based group activity to enable insightful and creative conversations about leadership. Three main themes are covered within the 83 cards:

• The kind of leadership participants experience currently
• The kind of leadership participants think need in the future
• How to develop the required forms of leadership, as individuals and as a group, organisation, or society

Each card has a different metaphor picture, and while the image is cartoon-like and playful, the cards develop deep, serious dialogue while also being engaging. The cards can be used to define direction, alignment, and commitment within a leadership context. The cards are developed from research conducted by CCL, studying the forms of leadership needed in an increasingly complex and interdependent world. 

Click here for our guide to selecting the right image based activity for you!