Team Overview

All events are designed to be suitable for a wide range of corporate purposes from team building and executive awaydays to leadership development and motivational workshops.

Examples include:

• Executive teams that need space away from the white noise of everyday business to think honestly and creatively about where they are now and where they want to be.
• Teams that are under performing or struggling to hit targets and need encouragement to think more positively
• Teams that are emerging from periods of sustained difficulty and challenge who need to rebuild focus and trust
• Next generation leaders who have shared learning objectives around specific areas of leadership and business development
• Newly established teams who need to build relationships and engagement with the organisation’s goals
• Events can also act as light-hearted ice-breakers and/or morale/energy boosts in between more formal agenda items of corporate retreats

The intention behind all of the events listed on this site is to encourage teams to think, connect and grow together; exploring, reflecting and learning in a way that – I hope - feels fresh, engaging and genuinely useful.

Rather than relying on generic exercises, or predictable team-building activities that team members may well have experienced before, and some might find intimidating, each event uses an unexpected theme - from history and the natural world to mindset and festive stories - as the starting point for exploring real workplace challenges.

This approach helps people step outside their usual context, making it easier to discuss issues of leadership, communication, decision-making, resilience, conflict, change and the meaning of success, without conversations feeling forced or overly personal.

And, because we are using the power of metaphor and story-telling, no-one can predict in advance quite what new thinking might emerge to shape the team dynamic or, indeed, the direction of travel. No one person can dominate and no-one needs to feel awkward about how they might compare with others because there really is no right or wrong way of interpreting the content.

All this without getting your feet wet.

Team events can take place online or in person – either on site, or at a venue of your choosing.

In person events do offer a little more opportunity for the facilitator to read the room, adjust the energy, & address any interpersonal tensions whilst building on emerging themes. They are also better for full day events.

On-line works well for short morale boosting events or ice breakers where time may be restricted – or when distance would be an object.

There is no real minimum or maximum.

Events can work just as well for partnerships of just two or three people as for larger groups. The difference is that, with fewer people we will have more time to think more deeply about specific issues the team would like to explore.

As a guide, the optimum number for getting the most out of these types of events is somewhere between 8 – 20.

Larger groups may require more than one facilitator. This could be someone from your own team – in which case we will need to build in a little preparation time, or I have other trusted coach colleagues that I can invite to join us.

The short answer is YES – depending on the event that you select and the time you are able to invest, there is capacity to create a bespoke event where participants are focusing their attention on specific team objectives.

As a foundation, all titles are fully formed and ready to go as two-hour, ‘off the peg’ events where discussion is guided by the prepared content.

Some titles are designed to stimulate wide ranging discussion for the purposes of team building or leadership development, others are designed around a specific theme to prompt more focused thinking such as teamwork, project management, emotional intelligence, etc, etc. If you have a specific theme in mind, you can use the filters on the relevant pages to help narrow down your search for a title that best suits your needs.

If you are looking for something completely unique to your team, extra thinking time (in the form of questions or activities) can be integrated into the content to focus attention on specific team objectives. This does require a little more time – which is why there is the option to choose longer half, or full, day programmes.

The starting point is to identify the title(s) that best suits your needs and we can then work out together how, and where, to integrate any extra thinking time for best effect.

No – the difference between these events & other more conventional team activities lies in our use of story-telling & metaphor rather than any physical activity.

All that is required is a room that is big enough to accommodate the numbers of people you would like to attend & the means to present the accompanying slides. Access to a break-out room may be useful for bigger groups.

For History or Natural World events, you may wish to arrange an appropriately themed venue to create a more immersive experience - e.g. a tudor hotel or a wildlife conference room - subject to practicalities.

Depending on the event you have chosen, I may send a few very brief notes for participants to read through in advance. The purpose of these notes is generally just to provide some context &, if it is an event from the history collection to introduce participants to some key characters so they feel more familiar on the day. They will literally take no more than three or four minutes to read.

Yes I do – let me know the nature of your organisation when you book our first consultation & we can discuss when we meet.

Yes – I offer a limited number of titles as online taster sessions or in person demos. Available titles are free of charge and are identified with the KCC brand graphic. Terms and conditions apply.