Awaydays and workshops.
Practical learning and development for teams and leaders, we design tailored team development workshops, leadership awaydays, reflective practice and group coaching.
Support for Leaders + Teams.
We design and deliver tailored workshops and awaydays for organisations working across public services, health, education, business and the community sector.
Our facilitation is trauma-informed, creative and practical, supporting brilliant leadership and teamwork through,
- Staff team development
- Board and leadership awaydays
- Annual General Meeting workshops
- Bespoke Leadership Learning Programmes
- Reflective Practice sessions
- Group and 1:1 coaching
Why Learning + Development?
Brilliant development supports organisations to achieve strategic, operational and team ambitions and helps people work together effectively.
Brilliant learning explores real-life situations, challenges and opportunities and helps people collaborate to create outcomes that are are meaningful, tangible and useful.
We provide safe, supported space to explore what is happening, understand different perspectives, develop aligned purpose and turn learning into practical action. Our facilitation is trauma-informed.
Team Development
Practical development that helps teams work well together, make progress and learn from what they do.
We tailor workshops around your team needs or can design a staff development programme with you. Sessions can focus on,
Planning
Turn ideas, priorities and challenges into clear plans, shared priorities and practical action. Teams work with us to create greater clarity around what matters, who is doing what and what needs to happen next.
Facilitation
We work with teams to develop the confidence and skills to lead useful conversations, meetings and collaborative work. Teams work together to learn trauma-informed approaches that encourage participation, make better use of different perspectives and help groups move forward.
Reflection
All workshops create useful space to step out of delivery, understand what is happening and learn from experience. We work with teams to develop ways to share insight, recognise what’s working and identify what needs to change while supporting healthier, more sustainable ways of working.
Team Training
In addition to tailored team development support we offer training for teams which we can deliver as part of a learning and support programme. This includes
- Human Skills at Work: develop compassion, trust and adaptability and learn creative thinking and conflict navigation skills to improve communication and create team dynamics.
- Trauma-Aware Teams: recognise the impact of trauma, respond with confidence and build psychologically safer workplaces and delivery programmes.
Leadership Development
Leadership team development workshops and awaydays set direction, understand impact and lead people through complexity and change.
We tailor workshops and awaydays around your leadership challenge or can design a leadership learning programme with you. Sessions can focus on,
Visioning + Evaluation
Create a compelling direction and a shared understanding of what success looks like. Explore how evidence, experience and learning can help leaders understand impact and make better decisions about what happens next.
Leading Through Change
Develop practical approaches for navigating uncertainty, complexity and competing pressures. Help leaders maintain direction while adapting to change and keeping people connected to the wider purpose.
Influence
Build support for ideas and change. Strengthen the ability to work across teams, departments, organisations and partnerships, navigate different priorities and bring people with you.
Reflective Practice and Coaching
Reflective practice, 1:1 and group coaching create protected space for people to step back from day-to-day pressures, think through real challenges and learn alongside others.
We facilitate reflection through
- Exercises to reflect on shared experience
- Coaching conversations
- Topic Focused groupwork
Participants can explore different perspectives, make sense of what is happening and identify practical ways forward.
These sessions support individual and group development while strengthening shared learning, connection and capacity across a team.
We can design a targeted session with you or deliver regular sessions as part of your employee wellbeing and development support.
Assets that Influence
We encourage organisations to use our learning and development support to produce assets that influence externally across sectors or internally shape organisational culture, stategy and operations.
These assets can be used to communicate the impact of the work or the learning outcomes across wider sectors and partnerships and we can explore with you the podential ripple effect of developing these resources.
We are experienced producing
- Toolkits and resources
- Strategic and Programme Plans
- Vision Mission and Values Documents
- Impact Reports
- Leaning Packs
Read more about our approach to creating assets that influence and see examples here.
The Challenge
When delivery takes over.
When teams are busy delivering, it can be hard to find space to step back and think strategically, improve how work operates or plan for what comes next.
The same pressure can squeeze out the time teams need to build relationships, develop trust, work through tensions and learn together.
Over time, this has consequences. Problems repeat, decisions become reactive, opportunities are missed and collaboration becomes harder, putting greater pressure on people, performance and the organisation’s ability to make progress.
The Opportunity
Protected time and space.
We use your organisation’s real context as the starting point, combining facilitated learning with practical tools, reflection and action. Depending on your needs, we can focus development around:
- planning and shared priorities
- facilitation and collaboration
- reflection and team learning
- vision and direction
- evaluation and impact
- navigating complexity and change
- influence and partnership working
We tailor awaydays and workshop development around the real-world challenges and opportunities your people are facing.
The Results
Real learning people can actually use.
Development can help teams and leaders:
- create clearer priorities and shared direction
- work more effectively across different perspectives
- turn discussion into practical action
- respond more confidently to complexity and change
- build reflection and learning into everyday work
- strengthen collaboration across teams and partnerships
- create healthier and more sustainable ways of working
We aim to leave greater capacity within the organisation than existed before.
Essential Details
Location
Sessions can be delivered in person at your workplace or another venue, with online delivery available where appropriate. We can offer in-person sessions in the North West and South East UK.
Tailored to you
We’ll start by understanding your organisation, the people involved and what you want to be different as a result of the work. We can then recommend the right combination of learning and development support.
- Full day: £1500 +VAT
- Half day: £650 +VAT
- 1hour online: £120 +VAT
Next Steps
If you want to develop your people and strengthen how you work together through team development workshops or awaydays, book a call with us to share what is happening in your team or organisation. We’ll help you identify the development that will be most useful and design a practical way forward.