Enable Therapy Services brought their team of 30 together in Leeds for a Team Tune-Up workshop. The brief was to give the team structured time to discuss and decide how to work together effectively, in a relaxed environment that let people open up rather than perform.
We held a Team Tune-Up workshop to help the team discuss and decide how to work together effectively to achieve their goals.
We ran a customised version of our Teamwork workshop, focused on values, for a rehabilitation team that had been through a tough time recently and needed a refresh. The aim was to give them space to step back from the day to day and reconnect with the bigger picture.
The session went well, with plenty of engagement and a real chance for the team to reset and reconnect with what matters. It went well enough that we are now in discussions about running another session later in the year.
The biggest learning from team away days like this is that the format matters as much as the content. Mixing team members throughout the day, keeping the energy light without dropping into silliness, designing the day so people can share in smaller groups when speaking to the whole room feels too exposed, these design choices are what determine whether the team actually opens up or just attends.
Anita's feedback called out the calm and thoughtful style specifically. For teams in caring professions, where the people in the room are already doing emotionally demanding work, the right facilitator energy is not high-octane motivation, it is the calm space that lets them think differently about how they work.
Most work like this starts with a 30-minute call to understand the team, the context, and what good would look like. From there we agree the shape of the work together.
