Workshop Culture: A guide to building teams that thrive

by Alison Coward, Alex Osterwalder (Foreword by)

Overview

What if every day at work felt like your team’s most productive ‘away day'

The most successful and innovative teams and organisations are highly collaborative, creative and productive — you will find the principles of great workshops infused throughout their culture.

This is a book about how running great workshops, and taking inspiration from them, can lead to a great team environment. Workshop Culture will show you how to create a happy and engaged team through small actions which lead to big results. It features a practical and accessible toolkit to help improve your team’s performance and productivity.

Workshop Culture gives you:

• Inspiring case studies from forward—thinking and innovative teams that have found success from a workshop culture
• A structured methodology that you can follow to bring more happiness, productivity and engagement to your team
• Practical exercises to help you build new skills and knowledge, and increase impact at work

Alison Coward is a team culture coach, consultant and founder of Bracket, a consultancy that partners with ambitious, forward—thinking companies to build high—performing, collaborative team cultures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788604710
Publisher:	Practical Inspiration Publishing
Publication date:	11/21/2023
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Alison Coward is the founder of Bracket, a consultancy that partners with forward—thinking organisations to help them build high—performing teams. She is a facilitator, coach, trainer and keynote speaker. With 20 years’ experience of working in, leading and facilitating creative teams, Alison is passionate about helping teams to thrive and do their best work.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Alex Osterwalder

Introduction

PART 1: IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM

Chapter 1: The impact of the problem

Impact 1: bad meetings

Impact 2: low engagement

Impact 3: lack of purpose

Why are you implementing a workshop culture?

Chapter 2: Why workshops are the solution

Why great workshops lead to great team cultures

What you are designing for in a workshop culture

PART 2: INTRODUCING WORKSHOP CULTURE

Chapter 3: Understanding workshop culture

The four foundations of a workshop culture

Foundation 1: workshops are more than a one—off event

Foundation 2: maintain a constant balance between creativity and productivity

Foundation 3: make tiny tweaks, not sweeping changes

Foundation 4: a workshop culture is designed

Chapter 4: Leading a workshop culture

Collaboration: a collaboration mindset

Facilitation: there’s something about facilitation

Strategic thinking: important, but not urgent

Design mindset: designing for culture change

Turning ideas to action

Behaviour change

If you can run great workshops, you can implement a workshop culture

PART 3: THE FRAMEWORK

The five—pillar framework for high—performing teams

Chapter 5: Alignment – seeing the bigger picture

Dynamic and fluid teams

The bigger picture – setting your team’s direction: alignment, clarity and purpose

Strategy development – ideas into action

Crystallizing team values

Chapter 6: Cohesion – self—awareness and connection

Balancing the team and individual

Building self—awareness for team performance

Individual productivity, team productivity

Building empathy for team cohesion

Chapter 7: Communication – meetings and workshops

Impactful meetings use design and facilitation

The responsibility of a meeting facilitator

Make your meetings more workshop—like

Facilitation techniques to improve your meetings

A holistic look at our meetings

Chapter 8: Design – designing ways of working

Team culture as a product in development

Designing routines and rituals over ‘team building’

Optimizing team productivity – what design can address

Designing connection

Chapter 9: Change – continuous improvement

A new approach to change

Understanding behaviour change

Tools and techniques to initiate and sustain change

Building a workshop culture – a blended approach to change

Conclusion

Toolkit

Workshop Culture: A Guide to Building Teams That Thrive (summary)

Notes

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Index