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Signature Workshop

The Collaboration Code

Every team has gaps — between functions, across locations, or simply between people who've never quite found their rhythm together. This workshop brings those gaps into the open and closes them, through honest conversation, structured reflection and mutual understanding. Teams leave with new habits, not just good intentions.

Format

90 min to a full-day

Group Size

5 – 60 participants

Trusted by teams that believe in better

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About This Workshop

Collaboration that’s consistent, not just occasional.

Most team friction doesn’t come from bad intentions. It comes from different assumptions, unclear expectations and habits that made sense in smaller teams but don’t scale. This workshop is for teams that are functional but fragmented —where collaboration happens in pockets but not consistently, and where the gaps between people are costing time, energy and results.

We design Working Better Together sessions around your team’s specific fault lines: cross-functional friction, remote and in-person tensions, post-restructure dynamics, or simply a team that’s grown faster than its ways of working. The session combines structured reflection, honest conversation and practical tools — leaving teams with concrete agreements and new habits to put into practice immediately.

WHERE IT HELPS MOST

Six situations this workshop is designed for

Cross-functional friction

Teams that work across departments, functions or locations and struggle to maintain consistent ways of working.

Post-restructure dynamics

Teams that have been reorganised, merged or grown quickly and haven’t recalibrated how they work together.

Remote and hybrid tensions

Teams navigating different working arrangements who need explicit agreements about presence, communication and collaboration.

New team formation

Teams coming together for the first time who want to build healthy working habits from the start rather than fix problems later.

High-growth teams

Teams that have scaled faster than their habits — where informal norms that worked at 5 people don’t hold at 25.

Leadership team misalignment

Senior teams whose collaboration gaps are cascading into the broader organisation and creating confusion below.

What Participants Leave With

Six things that change how
the team works together

01

A clear picture of how the team works

A shared, honest view of where collaboration is strong — and where it breaks down.

02

Agreed working norms

Communication expectations and working agreements the team has genuinely committed to.

03

Practical tools for friction

Frameworks for giving feedback, handling disagreement and navigating difficult conversations.

04

Stronger cross-team relationships

Better understanding and trust across functions, levels and locations.

05

Accountability mechanisms

Structures to sustain the changes beyond the session — not just good intentions.

06

Energy to work differently

Teams leave motivated and ready to change — not just informed about why they should.

How we design your session

Every Working Better Together session is scoped in advance. We meet with the session sponsor to understand the team’s specific fault lines, dynamics and context, so the facilitation is built around your team’s actual situation, not a generic agenda. This scoping conversation is included in the booking.

“The session was crisp, on point, and highly relevant. The best part is that we managed to cover quite a lot in a short period of time. Everyone felt super engaged and left with very valuable takeaways.”

Amar Abbasi

Regional Legal Director · Procter & Gamble

Ready to turn friction into forward momentum?

Most groups book 4–6 weeks in advance. Get in touch to discuss your team’s specific dynamics and the right format for where you are.