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Teamwork.

Team workshops and facilitation that fix how work flows within & between teams.

Three colleagues and a small dog walking forward together along a large arrow

Teamwork is the discipline of how work moves between teams, across boundaries and silos. It covers the design of decision rights, meeting rhythms, and the way work passes from one function to the next. It is where execution mostly succeeds or struggles.

TEAMWORK SERVICES

Helping your team work as one.

I offer a range of services to help your team work better as a unit, from building the accountability and trust that hold a team together, to keeping it aligned across the year, to seeing clearly how well it really operates.

TEAM ACCOUNTABILITY

Stay Accountable

The workshop creates momentum. This keeps it going.

Regular, facilitated check-ins that keep your team close to the commitments they made in the room. Built for the months after an offsite, when everyday demands pull hardest, they turn follow-through into a team habit: problems surface early, the rhythm moves conversations forward, and the team holds itself to what it agreed.

90 minutesRegular cadenceLeadership teams
LEADERSHIP TEAMS

Quarterly Offsites

Build trust and direction, four times a year.

A quarterly two-day offsite where strategy and team development happen together. The team sets direction and works on how it operates as a unit, so trust deepens, the hard conversations happen, and it leaves acting more as one. This is my flagship offer for leadership teams.

Two daysQuarterly, in personLeadership teams
360 FEEDBACK

Leader & Team 360

See how the team really operates as a unit.

360-degree feedback run across the whole team, honest, structured and anonymous. It surfaces the patterns the team has stopped noticing, builds psychological safety, and gives you a shared starting point for working on how the team operates as a unit. Everything is administered, debriefed and ready to act on.

Fully managedIn person or virtualTeams & leaders
ASSESSMENT PLATFORM

Are We On The Same Page?

See how well your team works together.

The Team Assessment reads a single team as a unit across six dimensions of how a team works, from trust to how cleanly the work moves between people. It shows where the team is strong and where it is stretched, with a clear next move. One of a family of instruments that also read the whole organisation, one leader, or the people in a team.

OnlineSix dimensionsTeam, or whole org
Workshops

Bring this layer into your own team.

Each workshop is built on the framework above. Run as one-offs or part of a wider programme.

ASSESSMENT

How Teamwork shows up. How it fails.

When it's working

  • Work moves between teams cleanly, with expectations and quality bars that both sides recognise.
  • Cross-functional decisions get made once, by the people closest to the work, with the right people in the loop.
  • Meetings are short, well-named, and visibly produce something. Recurring meetings that have outlived their purpose get killed without ceremony.
  • Friction is visible to the team itself, named honestly in retros and check-ins, and addressed before it becomes structural debt.

When it's broken

  • The same cross-functional decisions keep coming back to the same meeting, week after week.
  • Handovers that produce surprise, frustration, or rework. Each team blaming the other for problems that are structural.
  • A calendar dominated by recurring meetings, where the question “why does this meeting exist” has no clean answer.
  • Friction that the team has stopped noticing, because it has become the reality of the work rather than a problem to be solved.
TAKE THE ASSESSMENT
Toolkit

Frameworks and exercises.

Self-contained tools from the wider Creative Huddle toolkit.

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CASE STUDIES

Related workshops and projects

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Get in touch.

If reading this page has surfaced something specific about the handovers, decision rights, or meeting habits in your organisation, let's talk.

From a recent teamwork engagement
“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