Decision Making & Problem Solving

Think clearly. Decide confidently. Solve together.

A full or multi-day facilitated workshop that sharpens how your people analyse, decide, and tackle challenges as a team.

Develop the skill that keeps teams moving. Our Decision Making and Problem Solving workshops blend expert facilitation with hands-on practice — indoors and out — to help your people think more clearly under pressure, weigh options with confidence, and reach better outcomes together.

What This Workshop Includes

Our Decision Making and Problem Solving workshops are practical, collaborative, and grounded in real-world application. Each session is tailored to your team, but typically includes:

Each session is led by an experienced facilitator who guides the group through carefully structured activities focused on critical thinking, collaborative decision making, and problem-solving under pressure.

Topics can include decision-making frameworks, root cause analysis, creative problem solving, managing ambiguity, or bespoke themes relevant to your organisation and the challenges your teams face.

We blend structured indoor facilitation with guided outdoor activities. Working outside shifts perspective, loosens thinking, and creates the conditions for more creative and honest problem solving.

Sessions are designed to suit all backgrounds and experience levels. The day is structured, unhurried, and facilitated to ensure everyone feels confident to contribute, challenge, and engage throughout.

These workshops work equally well across all levels — from frontline teams to senior leaders. When people with different perspectives solve problems together, the results are sharper, more inclusive, and more likely to stick.

One-Day Decision Making & Problem Solving Workshop

Base for this itinerary: Chevin Country Park Hotel & Spa, Otley

This immersive, full-day experience is designed to build sharper thinking, stronger collaborative decisions, and greater confidence when facing complex challenges — through expert facilitation, practical frameworks, and time spent working together outdoors.

RESET, RECONNECT, RECHARGE

09:30 – Welcome & Setting the Scene

• Arrival, light refreshments: herbal teas, fruit, and pastries
• Meet the facilitator and group introductions
• Outline of the day, group agreements, and intention setting
• Opening reflection: “When did you last make a decision you weren’t fully confident in — and what got in the way?”

10:00 – How We Make Decisions

Theme: Awareness & Understanding

• Facilitated introduction to how the brain processes decisions and solves problems
• Group discussion: where decision making breaks down in everyday work
• Self-reflection exercise: “My decision-making style” — recognising your own patterns and biases
• Pair sharing: a decision that didn’t go as planned and what you’d do differently

11:15 – Outdoor Problem Solving Challenge

Theme: Thinking Differently Together

• Guided outdoor activity designed to surface how your team approaches problems under pressure
• Structured challenges exploring collaboration, creative thinking, and group decision making: How does your team divide responsibility when no one’s in charge? What happens to your thinking when time is short?
• Debrief on return: what the activity revealed about your team’s decision-making dynamics

12:00 – Frameworks for Better Decisions

Theme: Tools, Structure & Clarity

• Facilitated session introducing practical decision-making frameworks your team can use immediately
• Root cause analysis exercise: getting beneath the surface of a problem before jumping to solutions
• Small group activity: applying a structured framework to a real challenge from your organisation
• Group debrief: what changed when you slowed down and used a process?

13:00 – Lunch

14:00 – Decisions in Teams

Theme: Collaboration, Conflict & Consensus

• How group dynamics shape the quality of decisions — and what gets in the way
• Group activity: “The Decision We Keep Avoiding” — honest, facilitated conversation
• Exploring the role of bias, hierarchy, and groupthink in team decision making
• Pair work: practising constructive challenge and how to disagree productively

15:15 – Outdoor Closing Activity

Theme: Clarity & Commitment

• Short outdoor session in pairs or small groups
• Guided reflections: What one change would make the biggest difference to how our team makes decisions? What will I do differently from tomorrow?
• Pair sharing and group reconvene

16:00 – Closing Circle & Integration

• Grounding exercise and group reflection
• Written reflection: “One decision I will approach differently after today…”
• Personal commitment cards: one concrete action to carry forward
• Feedback and close

17:00 – Departure

Pricing

One-Day Decision Making & Problem Solving Workshop

From £3,500 ex VAT / team of 12–18

Additional delegates £POA up to 36.

We take care of everything — just bring your team and your thinking hats.