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Team Building Workshop

Reset how your team works together — build trust, clarify roles and agree the ways of working that make you better as a team.

You may have the idea, expertise or ambition — and still want more confidence in how you express it. Meetings, presentations, feedback and difficult conversations shape your experience of work and your next career step. We understand that growth is personal, not just a line on a development plan.

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Duration

Half day or full day · half day: 3.5 hours; full day: 9:30am–5pm

Group size

6–8 delegates

Format

Face to face

Price — Face to face

From £1,100

+ VAT · Format options below

where understanding becomes useful —

Why this course matters

Better teamwork begins with understanding the people you rely on and how you work together.

What you’ll explore in the Lab

A team can be full of capable people and still struggle to work well together: roles blur, frustrations go unspoken, and nobody finds time to step back and reset. This workshop gives your team that time.

Delegates look honestly at how the team currently works, what helps it and what holds it back, then agree what each person needs from the others to do their best work. A half day covers the essentials — trust, working styles, communication and team dynamics — while a full day goes deeper, creating space for real issues, role clarity and live practice of the conversations teams find hardest. Delivered face to face at your venue, in a group of 6–8.

a real challenge. a purposeful response.

The challenges this addresses

  • Assumptions about colleagues weakening everyday cooperation and collaboration
  • Team challenges discussed without any shared practical experience
  • Unclear roles creating confusion over responsibilities and working expectations
  • Team discussions ending without agreed actions or shared ownership

What this can change at work

Working together reveals things that talking about teamwork alone may miss. Shared practical activity helps colleagues examine how they communicate, cooperate and understand their roles, then agree ways of working they can own together. For the team and the wider business, the value lies in turning that insight into visible actions that support clearer responsibilities and more open everyday collaboration.

Assumptions discussed openly

Colleagues refer to shared workshop experiences when discussing how their team communicates, rather than relying only on impressions of each other.

Working agreements made explicit

The team sets out agreed responsibilities and ways of working so colleagues can check expectations when coordinating shared tasks.

Team actions revisited

Colleagues return to their agreed team actions in working discussions and identify what needs attention to keep progress moving.

Inside the workshop

Working in a small group of 6–8, the session moves from reflection to conversation to commitment: short input on trust, communication and team dynamics, breakouts where the team surfaces what is helping and what is getting in the way, and time to agree how you will work together. A full day adds deeper work on roles, strengths and difficult conversations, with live practice and a set of team agreements written before anyone leaves.

Make Team Building Workshop relevant to your business

Tell us where you want to make progress with what makes a team work: trust, roles and communication. We can discuss suitable workplace examples, priorities and access needs before agreeing the scope. This workshop brings people together face to face; UK and European delivery arrangements are agreed with your organisation.

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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.

  • What makes a team work: trust, roles and communication
  • Understanding different working styles
  • How your team shares information and makes decisions
  • Handling disagreement and difficult conversations
  • Agreeing ways of working everyone owns
  • Strengths, gaps and using each other better

What’s included in your booking

Your booked time and format
Half day or full day · Face to face · 6–8 delegates. Choose one of the formats shown in the booking options; alternative formats are not additional included sessions.
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:

  • Understand how your team currently works
  • Agree clear ways of working everyone owns
  • Communicate and cooperate more openly
  • Leave with team actions that keep momentum going

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: Understand how your team currently works.

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 Team Building Workshop 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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