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Building High-Performing Teams

Build the trust, clarity and shared standards that help teams take ownership and perform.

Leadership asks you to make decisions, support people and deliver results — sometimes all in the same conversation. You may be the person everyone looks to while still working out your own next step. Having developed hundreds of leaders across the UK, US and EMEA, we understand those competing demands. The Lab is space to think clearly, practise honestly and grow the confidence to lead in your own way.

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Duration

1 day · 9:30am–5pm

Group size

6–8 delegates

Format

Online or face to face

Price — Face to face

From £1,999

+ VAT

Price — Online

From £1,550

+ VAT

where understanding becomes useful —

Why this course matters

Strong individuals become a strong team when purpose, trust and shared standards connect their work.

What you’ll explore in the Lab

High performance depends on more than individual capability: leaders need clear goals, shared standards and the trust for people to speak up, challenge constructively and take ownership. This one-day course helps team leaders and managers at any level, including those taking over underperforming teams and leadership teams raising the bar together, understand what distinguishes high-performing teams.

Delegates assess their team against a high-performance model, exploring goals, roles, psychological safety, healthy conflict, decision-making and ways to recognise and stretch their people. They translate that diagnosis into a practical 90-day team development plan, with clear priorities for strengthening teamwork and raising standards.

a real challenge. a purposeful response.

The challenges this addresses

  • Capable people working to different expectations
  • Team issues addressed individually without a shared diagnosis
  • Team goals disconnected from everyday standards and shared ownership
  • Concerns left unspoken while performance problems become established habits

What this can change at work

A capable group needs shared expectations to perform as a team. Leaders assess current performance, clarify goals and standards, and explore how people can speak up and take ownership together. A practical 90-day development plan helps turn that diagnosis into action. For the business, this can mean more focused team effort, clearer accountability and a more deliberate response to the issues holding collective performance back.

A shared diagnosis

Team reviews use a common performance model to discuss current strengths and gaps before choosing where to focus improvement.

Standards people understand

Managers translate team goals into clear expectations, checking that colleagues share an understanding of what good performance looks like.

Development made visible

A 90-day team development plan sets out agreed actions, with progress discussed alongside opportunities to speak up and take ownership.

Inside the workshop

Working in a small group of 6–8 delegates, leaders move from exploring the traits of high-performing teams to diagnosing their own team's strengths and gaps. Breakouts, peer-to-peer learning and live practice provide opportunities to clarify expectations, encourage constructive challenge and practise conversations that build trust and ownership. Delegates leave with clear development priorities and a practical 90-day plan for their team.

Make Building High-Performing Teams relevant to your business

Tell us where you want to make progress with the traits of high-performing teams. We can discuss suitable workplace examples, priorities and access needs before agreeing the scope. Choose live online or face-to-face training for your UK or European team, with delivery arrangements agreed before booking.

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What the training covers

The scope below sets out the subjects covered. Workplace examples and practice are shaped around your team within the booked format.

  • The traits of high-performing teams
  • Setting clear goals, roles and standards
  • Building trust and psychological safety
  • Healthy conflict and decision-making
  • Recognising and stretching your people
  • Diagnosing your own team's strengths and gaps

What’s included in your booking

Your booked time and format
1 day · Live online or face to face, agreed before booking · 6–8 delegates.
Included in every course
  • Interactive, facilitator-led learningLive, hands-on sessions built around practice and participation.
  • Group discussionsShared conversations about real situations, so people learn from each other as well as the facilitator.
  • Breakout exercisesSmall-group practice, role-play and problem-solving, online or in the room.
  • Take-away materialsCourse materials, tools and templates to use back at work.
Facilitated learning and practical application
The subject coverage, exercises and facilitator feedback described above, with space to connect the learning to relevant workplace situations. The workshop description sets out the specific plans, prompts or tools developed in this course.

Follow-up coaching, refresher sessions and additional delivery days are not automatic inclusions; any additions are agreed in your proposal. Travel, venue arrangements and any software licences are confirmed separately where relevant. Prices exclude VAT.

Outcomes

The capabilities delegates work towards through the training and practice:

  • Assess where your team is today against a high-performance model
  • Set clear goals and standards everyone understands
  • Create an environment where people speak up and take ownership
  • Build a 90-day team development plan

the next conversation is where it counts —

Take it back to work.

Choose a real situation where you want to apply the learning. Use it to turn an outcome into a manageable first step, then reflect on what changes.

Choose

Start with one priority: Assess where your team is today against a high-performance model.

Apply

Try the approach in a relevant task or conversation. Note what felt useful and what you would adapt.

Review

Reflect on what happened, seek feedback where appropriate and choose your next step. Follow-up support can be discussed separately.

Bring this topic to your next event

We can discuss adapting Building High-Performing Teams into a keynote or large-group session, focusing on the themes most relevant to your audience. Depth, activities, timings and any follow-up depend on the format and package you choose; an event session is not a substitute for the full course.

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