Teamwork

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Teamwork

A full day that gives your team an honest picture of where it stands and a concrete plan for what comes next.

A full-day workshop for teams who want to work together more effectively. Participants build an honest picture of where they are, understand each other better, assess their team health across ten dimensions, and leave with a specific plan for what will change.

Duration
Full day
Format
In-person
Group size
6 to 20
ideal
Best for
Leadership teams
What you leave with

Three things that change in the room.

one

Build an honest picture of how the team is performing across ten dimensions of team health

two

Strengthen trust, communication, and accountability through structured facilitated exercises

three

Leave with a concrete action plan and personal commitments that go beyond good intentions

About the session

Most team problems are not complicated. They come from a lack of honesty, clarity, and follow-through.

The Teamwork workshop is the pillar workshop for team performance: a full-day, facilitated experience for leadership and professional teams who want to work together more effectively.

It is built around a simple belief: most team problems are not complicated. They come from a lack of honesty, clarity, and follow-through. The day creates the conditions for all three.

The day

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The standard format is a full day, 09:30 to 16:30.

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09:30
Rollercoaster Check-in
A visual check-in on how the team is really doing.
30 minutes
Exercise
Using the metaphor of a rollercoaster, participants relate to the ups and downs, difficulties and achievements of their work at the moment and learn how other team members are getting on too.
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09:30
Retrospective
Review the work, find the root causes, extract the learning.
30 minutes
Exercise
Teams work through a series of tailored retrospective questions to review their work from multiple angles, digging into root causes and extracting the key learnings.
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09:30
Looking Ahead
Map what is coming and prepare for it.
30 minutes
Exercise
A future-focused session that asks: what are the biggest priorities and events over the coming months? What is likely to happen and what can be done about it? Which relationships are strong and which need work?
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09:30
Morning Break
15 minutes
09:30
Great Teams
The five conditions behind effective teams.
45 minutes
Diagnostic
An interactive session based on Google's Project Aristotle research, which identified psychological safety and four other factors as the key ingredients of effective teams.
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09:30
User Manual
Help colleagues understand how to work with you.
60 minutes
Exercise
Participants work through a series of prompts to create their own User Manual: a simple framework that helps colleagues understand how to get the most from them, how to communicate, and what support they need.
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09:30
Lunch Break
45 minutes
09:30
Team Health Canvas
Assess the team across ten dimensions.
60 minutes
Canvas
A structured team assessment built around ten dimensions of effective teamwork. Teams score themselves on each dimension, surface where there is agreement and divergence, and agree on where to focus their collective energy.
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09:30
Afternoon Break
15 minutes
09:30
Super You
Name what you uniquely bring to the team.
45 minutes
Canvas
A creative reflection exercise in which participants identify what they uniquely bring to the team. They map their strengths and working style, share with the group, and connect their individual contribution to the team's collective performance.
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09:30
Team Action Plan
Convert the day into owned, specific commitments.
45 minutes
Exercise
The closing exercise of the Teamwork workshop. The team converts insights from the Team Health Canvas and commitments from Super You into a small number of specific, owned actions with agreed timelines and a date to review progress.
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Who it's for

Built for teams who want an honest picture and a concrete plan.

Leadership and professional teams

Teams who want to work together more effectively. The day builds a shared, honest picture of where the team stands across ten dimensions of team health, then turns it into a specific plan.

Teams at a turning point

Teams forming, growing, or resetting after a difficult period. The structured exercises rebuild trust, communication, and accountability, and close with personal commitments people actually own.

Next step

Bring it into your own team.

Every engagement starts the same way: a 30-minute call to understand the team, the situation, and what good would look like. From there, we agree the shape of the workshop together.

TESTIMONIAL
“The teamwork workshop set us up perfectly for our strategy offsite and brought our team much closer.”
Alice Pillar
VP Operations and Legal, Moonfire Ventures