Team workshop: working together to achieve sustainable results
Benefits | Procedure | Methods | Moderation & attitude | FAQ
Imagine your team working together clearly, openly and with shared responsibility. With a team workshop, we create a framework in which exchange is successful, tensions are clarified and new perspectives emerge. Especially when communication falters or roles are unclear, we help you to deal with issues in a structured and targeted manner.
Our team workshops are more than just meetings: they promote trust, create clarity and strengthen cooperation in everyday working life. We design the process to suit your team – structured in its approach, open to what emerges and consistently focused on realizable results.
Typical occasions for a team workshop
These occasions often form the starting point for a joint reflection process:
- Potential for improvement in cooperation
- Inefficient workflows and processes
- Unclear roles, tasks and responsibilities
- Inadequate communication structures and a lack of feedback culture
- Weak sense of unity and lack of shared values
- Smouldering conflicts in the team
- Challenges in dealing with change
- Lack of common goals and strategic orientation
Target group
- new teams, departments or divisions
- Existing teams and units
- Project and working groups
- Management and management teams
Typical group size: 5 to 40 people.
We accompany larger groups of up to 200 people with large group moderation.
In an initial exchange, we clarify your concerns, your goals and possible next steps for your team.
Your benefit: What is different after the workshop?
After the workshop, your team will work together in a clearer, more coordinated and more effective way:
- Roles, tasks and responsibilities are clarified and comprehensible
- Conflicts are addressed at an early stage and dealt with in a solution-oriented manner
- Binding agreements provide orientation in everyday working life
- Noticeable reduction in coordination effort and friction losses
- Decisions are made more clearly and quickly
This results in concrete, practicable agreements that are sustainable in everyday life and have a direct impact.
Typical procedure and cooperation
In our team workshop, we support your team in a clearly structured, moderated process to work on the topics that are currently relevant. The focus is on day-to-day collaboration, an open exchange on expectations, roles and communication as well as the development of concrete agreements that take direct effect. Depending on the issue, we delve deeper into two to four key topics that actually influence or block collaboration. The process combines a clear structure with methodological diversity and sufficient space for exchange:
Preparation
- Preliminary discussion on current team dynamics, challenges and goals
- Clarification of group size, duration and general conditions
- Development of a tailor-made process with varied formats (cognitive, visual, activating)
Implementation
- Introduction with welcome, objectives and process clarification as well as icebreaker or round of introductions
- Collection of participants’ expectations and needs
- Structured work on the main topics, e.g. in small groups
- Use of specific methods such as “away from – towards”, SWOT or retrospectives
- Joint evaluation in plenary with moderated discussion, feedback and consensus building
- Deepening through exercises or working on further aspects – depending on the objective
- Derivation of concrete measures, responsibilities and next steps
- Conclusion with summary and feedback round
Duration: usually between 1/2 day and 2 days
Format: face-to-face, online or hybrid
Follow-up
- Photo protocol and structured summary of the results
- Securing agreements for sustainable implementation in day-to-day work
- Joint evaluation meeting
Methods and work formats
In our team workshops, we work with different methods and formats that support the joint work process:
- Structured reflection phases
- Work in small groups and in plenary sessions
- Moderated exchange rounds
- Interaction and participation
- visual forms of work
- creative-artistic and playful methods
The methods are selected to best support the specific situation of your team.
Our role in moderation
We take responsibility for the process – your team for the content.
Our task is to:
- Create structure and clarity
- Involve all stakeholders
- Create a safe framework for open discussions
This results in solutions that are supported by the team and work in everyday life
Our approach to cooperation
We understand team development as a joint clarification process.
Our work is characterized by:
- an appreciative and impartial attitude
- the inclusion of different perspectives
- the conviction that teams can develop their own solutions
This attitude forms the basis for constructive and results-oriented cooperation.
Contact us
In a non-binding initial meeting, we will examine together how your team workshop can be organized in a target-oriented way and discuss the occasion, framework and possible next steps.
FAQ – Frequently asked questions about the team workshop
What is a team workshop?
A team workshop with Coachingwerk is a moderated work process in which teams work together on topics relating to collaboration, communication and alignment. The solutions emerge from the team itself.
Who are team workshops suitable for?
Team workshops are aimed at new and existing teams, management and leadership teams as well as project and working groups.
In which situations is a team workshop useful?
For example, when there is a need for clarification in cooperation, in the event of conflicts, management changes, in change processes or when teams want to review their direction.
How does a team workshop work?
A team workshop consists of preparation, implementation and follow-up. The duration is usually between 1/2 day and 2 days.
What role does the moderator play?
The moderator structures the process, creates a trusting framework and supports the exchange within the team. Responsibility for content and results remains with the team.
Expert tip
from team coach Daniela Wirtz
Not every development need in a team can be clarified in a single workshop. Depending on the issue, a different suitable format may be required:
Team coaching for long-term team development.
Team mediationwhen it comes to resolving conflicts.
Team strength profileto make personalities visible and strengthen interaction with one another.
LEGO Workshop as a creative method for complex topics.
Large group moderationif you want to involve more than 40 participants.
In a non-binding initial consultation, we clarify together which format is best for your needs.