Leading People, Managing Teams

Lead with confidence. Manage with purpose. Inspire every day.

A full-day facilitated workshop that transforms how your people lead, manage performance, and bring out the best in those around them.

Develop the skill that defines great workplaces. Our Leading People, Managing Teams workshops blend expert facilitation with practical application — indoors and out — to help your people step into leadership with confidence, manage performance with clarity, and create an environment where their teams genuinely thrive.

What This Workshop Includes

Our Leading People, Managing Teams workshops are practical, honest, 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 leadership style, people management, motivating individuals, and building high-performing teams.

Topics can include leadership styles and their impact, managing performance and difficult conversations, delegation, motivation, building trust within teams, or bespoke themes relevant to your organisation and the people challenges you face.

We blend structured indoor facilitation with guided outdoor activities. Working outside strips away hierarchy, levels the playing field, and creates the conditions for more honest conversations about how your team is really being led.

Sessions are designed to suit all backgrounds and experience levels — whether your people are new to management or seasoned leaders looking to sharpen their approach. The day is structured, unhurried, and facilitated to ensure everyone gets maximum value.

These workshops work equally well across all levels — from first-time managers to experienced leaders. When people explore leadership together, they build shared language, mutual respect, and a stronger collective culture.

One-Day Leading People, Managing Teams Workshop

This immersive, full-day experience is designed to transform how your people lead and manage — building the confidence, self-awareness, and practical skills needed to motivate individuals, manage performance, and create teams that are engaged, effective, and proud of what they do — through expert facilitation, honest conversation, 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 feel truly confident in how you were leading your team — and what made the difference?”

10:00 – What Kind of Leader Am I?

Theme: Awareness & Understanding

• Facilitated introduction to leadership styles and the impact they have on team culture and performance
• Group discussion: where leadership breaks down in everyday work and why
• Self-reflection exercise: “My leadership style” — recognising your strengths, blind spots, and default behaviours under pressure
• Pair sharing: a moment when your leadership approach helped — or hindered — your team

11:15 – Outdoor Leadership Challenge

Theme: Leading When It Matters

• Guided outdoor activity designed to surface how your team leads and follows under pressure
• Structured challenges exploring communication, delegation, and decision making without a script: Who steps up when there’s no clear structure — and who steps back? What does your leadership style look like when the pressure is on?
• Debrief on return: what the activity revealed about your natural leadership behaviours

12:00 – Managing Performance & Motivating Individuals

Theme: Getting the Best from Your People

• Facilitated session on what really motivates people — and why one size never fits all
• Understanding the difference between managing performance and truly developing people
• Small group activity: building a practical approach to a real performance or motivation challenge from your team
• Group debrief: what changes when you lead the person, not just the task?

13:00 – Lunch

14:00 – Difficult Conversations & Building Trust

Theme: Courage, Clarity & Connection

• How psychological safety and trust define the difference between average and high-performing teams
• Group activity: “The Conversation We Keep Avoiding” — honest, facilitated practice
• Exploring how to give feedback, manage conflict, and hold people accountable with confidence and care
• Pair work: preparing for and practising a real leadership conversation you’ve been putting off

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 I lead my team? Who on my team needs more from me — and what’s been stopping me from giving it?
• Pair sharing and group reconvene

16:00 – Closing Circle & Integration

• Grounding exercise and group reflection
• Written reflection: “One thing I will do differently as a leader from tomorrow…”
• Personal commitment cards: one concrete action to carry forward
• Feedback and close

17:00 – Departure

Pricing

One-Day Leading People, Managing Teams 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.