Workshops designed to develop people skills and great culture

Workshops are a great way to inspire learning, build skills and support a people-focussed tech culture. Workshops can be standalone or part of a wider programme including coaching.

Popular courses are outlined below, or get in touch for bespoke workshops, courses and facilitation.

Feedback Mastery for Tech Leaders

Course description

Learn how to succeed at seeking, giving and receiving feedback in a safe and supportive environment. Practice applying these skills as a tech leader to help your teams learn and grow.

Key outcomes

  • Create the environment for effective feedback by breaking down the challenges and implementing practical steps to address them.

  • Design effective feedback using recipes for seeking, giving and receiving feedback, and practice these in interactive exercises.

  • Develop a plan to support you and your teams to increase the flow of feedback using tried and tested approaches.

  • Practice and learn to master feedback alongside a cohort of fellow tech leaders in a safe, supportive environment.

Coaching skills for people-first leadership

Course description

Learn how developing core coaching skills can help you become a better leader. Whether you’re new to leadership and want to enhance your toolkit of people skills, or a senior leader wanting to build high-performing teams, this workshop will equip you with practical coaching techniques to help you get the best out of people.

Key outcomes

  • Develop your communication skills to allow you to coach people effectively and practice these in a supportive and engaging environment.

  • Learn how to balance support with inspiring action, using tried and tested coaching skills to get the best out of your teams.

  • Build your emotional intelligence to be able to manage and adapt to the challenging situations that come with leadership roles.

A tech leader’s guide to psychological safety

Course description

Turn the concept of psychological safety into a practical playbook that delivers results. Psychological safety isn’t about being nice, it’s about creating an environment where people can speak up, to challenge, to bring ideas and to turn mistakes into learning. This workshop will equip you as a tech leader with the understanding and tools to help foster a culture of challenge and excellence, rather than quiet acceptance.

Key outcomes

  • Build understanding of psychological safety and its impact on tech team performance

  • Design rituals and approaches to help foster a psychologically safe tech culture

  • Practice and apply tools and techniques to help people speak up

  • Learn the leadership traps to avoid in order to prevent a culture of silence

Collaboration skills for tech teams

Course description

Learn approaches to collaboration to build trust rather than tension. Through practical frameworks and exercises, participants will explore what enables effective collaboration — and what gets in the way. Participants will leave with tools to communicate more effectively, understand different perspectives and value diverse opinions, enabling better outcomes for all.

Key outcomes

  • Develop approaches for fostering psychological safety in a group and why this is important.

  • Design effective collaboration sessions through understanding the factors that enable or destroy collaboration and ways to address these.

  • Practice collaborative conversation, including seeing and understanding others perspectives.

Managing impostor syndrome

Course description

Build your understanding and awareness of impostor syndrome and the widespread impacts it can have on both individuals and team performance. Using practical approaches, learn how you can manage it effectively and apply this to both yourself and those you lead, reducing the cost and impact for your organisation.

Key outcomes

  • Better knowledge and understanding of what impostor syndrome is, and isn’t and the career and business impacts it can have.

  • Practical approaches to help yourself and others manage impostor feelings, enabling people to reach their full potential

  • How tackling impostor syndrome in a supportive and empathetic way can help foster an engaging and high-performing company culture.