Team Development and Coaching: Better Conversations. Stronger Teams. Meaningful Change

Creating the Space for Teams and Leaders to Learn, Grow, Navigate Change and Work Even More Effectively

Every individual, leader and team is different. Whether you are bringing a new team together, experiencing change, seeking to develop people’s leadership capability or simply wanting to work more effectively as a team, creating a dedicated space to pause, reflect and explore can make a real difference.

A range of 1:1 coaching, team coaching and team development sessions are available, tailored around the needs, challenges and desired outcomes for your leaders and teams.

These sessions are carefully designed to enhance the confidence, skills, behaviours and performance of your leaders and teams, drawing on a wide range of practical and tested tools and approaches to apply in the workplace. All sessions create a safe but appropriately challenging space where people can think differently, have meaningful conversations and turn insight into action.

Meet Abby Oates | Leadership & Team Development Specialist & Executive Coach

Abby is a highly skilled, experienced & engaging Executive Coach, Coach Supervisor and Leadership & Team Development Specialist, with a passion for enabling people, leaders and teams to develop, improve and achieve. Her creative coaching and facilitation style enables clients to uncover strengths, navigate complexity, develop fresh perspectives, and unlock their potential to achieve sustainable growth and organisational impact.

Abby brings extensive experience working with NHS, public and VCSE sector organisations, and is known for excellent facilitation skills, creativity and working in partnership with clients to shape bespoke solutions to meet their needs & priorities.

Team Coaching Workshops | Enabling teams to think, learn and perform together

Teams are complex. They are more than a collection of individuals, and creating an effective team requires attention to both what the team is trying to achieve and how the team works together. Team coaching creates dedicated space for teams to step out of the day-to-day and explore how they are working together.

Through carefully designed conversations and activities, supported by a range of models and tools, sessions will enable teams to explore their own challenges, strengths and opportunities. The aim is not simply to have a good conversation. It is to create insight that translates into meaningful changes in how the team works together.

Who is this for?
• New teams coming together
• Teams navigating change or facing challenges
• Teams wanting to work even more effectively together

Team Development for Leaders Workshops | Enabling leaders to create the conditions for effective, connected and high-performing teams

Leading a team is about more than delivering results. It is about creating the conditions in which people can work well together, have the conversations that matter, take ownership and contribute to shared success. 

Team development for leaders workshops, available on a range of topics, give your leaders dedicated space to step back from the day-to-day and explore their leadership approaches, how they and their team are working, what can get in the way and what could make the biggest difference.  Through a combination of facilitation, coaching, reflection and practical tools, leaders will learn to understand themselves and their teams and identify the opportunities to strengthen how they work together.

Who is this for?

  • New leaders wanting to grow their knowledge and skills
  • Experienced leaders wanting to enhance their expertise
  • Leadership teams wanting to learn and apply key skills and behaviours in their own team context

1:1 Coaching | Enabling Leaders to Think, Reflect and Lead with Purpose

1:1 coaching provides a confidential space for leaders, away from the day-to-day, to step back, explore what matters and consider new possibilities.

Sometimes we are too close to a situation to see it clearly. Coaching provides the space to pause, think things through and explore what might be possible, without someone telling you what to do. The coach’s role is to be your thinking partner: listening, questioning, challenging and enabling you to make sense of what is happening for you as a leader, and in your teams, so that you can decide what is right for you.

Who is this for?

Leaders who want a facilitated thinking space to enable them to:

  • Build confidence and enhance self-awareness
  • Navigate change, challenge or uncertainty
  • Explore career and development goals
  • Strengthen leadership capability
  • Identify and overcome barriers
  • Develop new perspectives and approaches
  • Turn thinking into purposeful action

All Courses Delivered Face to Face Or Online | To Suit Your Needs | All Sessions Designed to be Interactive, Practical & Relevant

Masterclasses

What is it?

A one-hour Masterclass on a key aspect of team or leadership effectiveness.

Topics

Masterclasses available on a wide range of topics relevant to team leadership and development including:

  • High Performing Teams
  • Leading change
  • Team development
  • Courageous Conversations
  • Leader as Coach
  • Resilience
  • Influencing beyond authority

Contact us if there is a particular topic you would be interested in.

Why do it?

To build people’s knowledge around key leadership and team topics.

Masterclass Details

Online or in Person
Interactive Training
Session Length: 1 hour Masterclass | online or in person
Cost: AVAILABLE ON REQUEST 
Maximum Numbers: Negotiable | Please contact us to discuss

Team Coaching Workshops 

What is it?

Facilitated full day workshops run with teams to enable them to step back, have the conversations they need to have, and agree how they want to work together. 

 *Workshops can be combined to create a team programme or be stand alone.

Topics

Topics or areas of focus could include:

  • Building a high performing team
  • Developing shared purpose
  • Exploring team values & behaviours
  • Strengthening relationships and collaboration
  • Navigating change
  • Understanding team dynamics
  • Communicating in teams
  • Creating trust & psychological safety
  • Enabling productive conflict
  • Unlocking collective strengths
  • Making & committing to decisions & improving accountability
  • Focussing on collective rather than individual success

Why do it?

To enable a team to explore challenges and strengths, navigate change and create insight that translates into greater effectiveness.

Workshop Details

Session Length: Full Day | In Person
Interactive Workshops on Specific Topic

 

Cost: £1,500+VAT for Full Day Workshop

Costs include all session design and facilitation. Additional costs may apply for team diagnostics, travel, accommodation, follow up meetings etc.

*Workshops can also be combined to create a series of team interventions, supported by diagnostics.

Maximum Numbers: Up to 12 people per team.  *For larger teams, please contact us for further options.

 
 

Team Development for Leaders Workshops

 

What is it?

Half day workshops with leaders and managers to develop their skills, behaviours and confidence in leading teams & change.  NB Workshops can be delivered stand alone or as a programme.

Topics

Topics could include:

  • Creating the foundations for effective teams
  • Leadership roles and personal impact
  • Leading teams through change
  • Leader as team coach
  • Engaging teams
  • Leader’s role in team culture
  • Influencing & negotiating effectively
  • Creating productive team relationships
  • Building trust and psychological safety in teams
  • Managing challenging conversations and conflict
  • Motivating teams

Get in touch if there are other topic areas important to you.

Why do it?

To develop leaders’ ability to confidently lead, grow and develop teams to perform effectively.

Workshop Details

Online Interactive Training

Session Length: Half day workshops (online).

Cost: £850+VAT Half day workshop (online)

Costs include all design and delivery. Additional costs may apply for diagnostics, travel, accommodation, etc.

*Workshops can also be combined to create a programme for leaders with diagnostics.

Maximum Numbers: Up to 16 people per workshop. For larger groups, please contact us for further options.

1:1 Coaching

What is it?

A series of one-hour confidential 1:1 coaching sessions with leaders to explore their leadership and team effectiveness.  A typical coaching programme might include up to 6 sessions per individual.

*Coaching can be particularly valuable to implement alongside team coaching or team development for leaders workshop options.

Topics

Coaching sessions are bespoke and will be shaped around each leader’s needs & personal aims.  Example topics often explored in coaching include:

  • Leadership style and impact
  • Working relationships and team dynamics
  • Leading change
  • Resilience & wellbeing
  • Personal values and strengths
  • Confidence building
  • Motivation and influencing
  • Communicating effectively
  • Organisational skills and prioritisation
  • Career & professional development
Why do it?

To develop and enable leaders to explore their leadership role and impact, team dynamics and the conditions they create for a team to perform.

1:1 Coaching Details 

Session Length: Series of 1 hour coaching sessions (online) Typical example online coaching programme: 6 x 1 hour coaching sessions.

Cost: Coaching – £125+VAT per 1 hour session (online)

*Face to face coaching sessions can also be arranged – please contact us for details & costs.

Costs include all preparation and coaching.  Additional costs may apply for any relevant diagnostics, travel, accommodation etc

Maximum Numbers: Coaching is undertaken on a 1:1 basis.

Register Your Interest in Running a Course for your team – Please contact us to discuss your requirements