A StrongSuits Group- or Team- Building workshop is an entry-level workshop to get people having fun and feeling energised while discovering their own and each other’s strengths and interaction styles. It’s designed to be highly engaging while generating high impact conversations about how people behave and how they can develop.

This workshop is suitable for

• Energising a 1 to 2 hour slot at a staff conference, team away day or team learning day.
• For a more in-depth workshop you may want to consider the half-day StrongSuits Team Strengths Workshop™.

The StrongSuits Team Strengths™ Workshop focuses on helping a team or group identify and play to each other’s strengths and communication styles. It can be used in any team or working group of up to 30 people. For larger groups you may want to consider a StrongSuits Group- or Team-Building Workshop.

This workshop is suitable for

• A team away day or team learning day where at least half of the day is spent discovering how to play to each other’s strengths and communication styles
• Any newly forming team or working group of up to 30 people
• Any team that wants to start to build psychological safety in the team before addressing more challenging topics in a follow-up StrongSuits Team Insights Workshop™

This workshop includes a basic exploration of the StrongSuits Team Strengths Map™.

Topics covered

• The Big Ideas – StrongSuits is based on the most current insights from modern psychology about what makes teams work and what limits them
• Your Winning Hand Game – You will identify the strengths of each individual and develop an appreciation of the team’s strengths
• Your StrongSuit Game – You’ll identify how each team member prefers to interact and communicate
• The StrongSuits Team Strengths Map™ – You’ll map your strengths and interaction styles as a team and start to explore what this means for what you each bring to the table and how you can develop

The StrongSuits Team Insights Workshop™ helps the team identify the points of breakthrough for each member of the team. The emphasis is on identifying and resolving difficulties and building the resilience and psychological safety of the team.

The purpose of the workshop is to take stock of how the team is working together, identify those areas where they are working together well and where they might improve. Each member of the team will identify a personal breakthrough goal based on feedback from members of the team.

This workshop is suitable for

The StrongSuits Team Insights Workshop™ is best used with a mature team or a team that has started to be confronted with the need to improve or deal with difficulties. This could be a team where there is some low-level conflict or that has low morale or it could be a highly effective and high performing team that is committed to excellence.

This workshop includes a deeper exploration of the StrongSuits Team Strengths Map™.

Topics covered

• Taking stock of the team – You will create a common understanding of team performance including where you are doing well and where you might improve as a team.
• Team communication styles – You will explore the communication style of each individual and what this means for how they prefer to communicate and how they handle challenge or difficulty.
• Overplayed strengths – You will explore your strengths as a team and how your strengths can become limitations if they are overplayed.
• Your point of breakthrough – You will ensure that each member of the team has a clear point of breakthrough; clarity about the shifts in behaviour that they can most usefully focus on in bringing about a shift in the way you work as a team.