Building high-performing teams
High-performing teams are at the heart of every successful organisation. When people understand one another, trust one another and know how to harness their complementary strengths, collaboration improves, communication becomes more effective and performance accelerates.
Team development is one of Longshaw Consulting Group’s core areas of expertise. Since 2002, we have designed and delivered more than 500 team development workshops, including over 200 since 2020 alone, for organisations across the private and public sectors, particularly within the banking and insurance sectors. Whether supporting executive teams, senior leadership teams, departmental teams or newly formed teams, our focus is always the same: helping teams unlock their full potential and perform at their very best.
Our approach combines two powerful psychometric tools, Insights Discovery® and Motivational Maps®, to help teams understand both how people prefer to work and what motivates them to perform at their best. Together, they provide a powerful framework for increasing self-awareness, strengthening relationships, valuing complementary strengths and creating a common language that transforms the way teams work together.
In addition we have recently become accredited in BRIKX . It uses LEGO-based building and visual thinking to help individuals and teams make ideas, challenges and relationships more tangible, enabling them to explore issues from different perspectives and develop solutions collaboratively.
A powerful blend of pyschometrics and problem-solving tools.
Our clients consistently tell us that within three to six months, teams are actively applying the insights from the workshop in their day-to-day work. They communicate more openly, collaborate more effectively, build stronger relationships and move significantly closer to becoming high-performing teams.
Available as half-day and full-day workshops, every programme is practical, highly interactive and inclusive. Participants leave with a shared understanding of one another, practical tools they can apply immediately and a 30-day team challenge designed to embed new behaviours and create lasting improvements in team performance.
Flexible Delivery
Our team development programmes
Programmes can be delivered as
Half-day workshops
Full-day workshops
Tailored team development programmes delivered over several weeks or months
Suitable for
Executive teams
Senior leadership teams
Departmental teams
Newly formed teams
Why Us
What makes our team development different?
Over Two Decades of Experience
With more than 500 team development workshops delivered since 2002, we bring extensive experience across a wide range of industries, cultures and leadership teams. Every workshop benefits from years of practical insight into what helps teams perform at their best.
A Powerful Blend of Psychometrics
We combine Insights Discovery®, Motivational Maps® and Bricx lego® Serious Play to provide a richer understanding of team dynamics.
Insights Discovery® helps people understand communication styles, preferences and strengths, while Motivational Maps® reveals what energises and motivates and Bricx® encourages creativity and collaboration, helping teams explore challenges from different perspectives and build solutions together
These TOOLS create a powerful platform for lasting behavioural change.
Tailored to Your Team
No two teams are the same. Every programme is designed around your team’s objectives, challenges and culture to ensure the learning is relevant, engaging and immediately applicable.
Highly Practical and Interactive
Our workshops are energetic, inclusive and discussion-based. Participants don’t just learn about high-performing teams; they experience what great teamwork looks and feels like and leave with practical actions they can implement immediately.
Focused on Lasting Behaviour Change
Learning doesn’t stop when the workshop ends. Every team leaves with a practical 30-day challenge that helps embed new behaviours, strengthen accountability and turn insight into sustainable habits.
Proven Impact
Clients consistently report stronger relationships, improved communication, greater trust and more effective collaboration within three to six months of attending our programmes.
The Outcomes
What teams gain
By the end of the programme, teams typically experience:
A deeper understanding of one another’s strengths, preferences and motivators.
Greater trust, openness and psychological safety.
Improved communication and stronger working relationships.
Greater appreciation of complementary strengths and different perspectives.
Increased collaboration and shared accountability.
More effective ways of managing differences and resolving conflict.
Higher levels of engagement, motivation and team cohesion.
A shared language that continues to strengthen the team long after the workshop.
Practical actions and a 30-day challenge to embed new habits and improve performance.
A clearer pathway towards becoming a truly high-performing team.
What we cover
Workshop topics
Insights Discovery® Workshop
Half Day (3½ Hours)
Understanding Yourself and Others
Ideal for: New teams, existing teams, leadership teams or departments.
Outcomes
Participants will:
- Understand their own Insights Discovery® profile.
- Recognise their strengths and potential blind spots.
- Appreciate different communication preferences.
- Learn how to adapt their style to build stronger relationships.
- Develop greater trust and collaboration within the team.
Motivational Maps® Workshop
Half Day (3½ Hours)
Understanding What Motivates People
Outcomes
Participants will:
- Understand their top motivators.
- Recognise what increases and decreases motivation.
- Appreciate motivational differences.
- Learn how to keep themselves and others motivated.
High-Performing Teams Accelerator Workshop
Full Day (7 Hours)
combining insights Discovery® & motivational maps®
The programme equips teams with a deeper understanding of both how people work (Insights Discovery®) and what motivates them to perform at their best (Motivational Maps®), creating the foundations for sustainable high performance.
Our High-Performing Teams Accelerator takes teams on a practical journey of discovery and development. Participants begin by understanding themselves, gaining greater awareness of their own strengths, communication preferences and motivators through Insights Discovery® and Motivational Maps®. They then develop a deeper understanding of one another, building trust, appreciation and stronger working relationships. With these foundations in place, teams focus on unlocking team performance by leveraging complementary strengths, improving collaboration and agreeing new ways of working together. The programme concludes by accelerating success, leaving teams with a shared action plan, practical tools and a 30-day challenge to embed new behaviours and create lasting improvements in team performance
Programme Outcomes
Participants will:
- Understand their own strengths, communication preferences and motivators.
- Develop a deeper appreciation of colleagues’ different styles, strengths and motivations.
- Build greater trust, collaboration and psychological safety.
- Communicate more effectively by adapting to different personalities and preferences.
- Leverage complementary strengths to improve team performance.
- Increase motivation, engagement and accountability across the team.
- Identify practical actions to strengthen team effectiveness.
- Create a shared Team Charter for working together successfully.
- Commit to a practical 30-day Team Challenge to embed new behaviours.
- Leave with a shared language and practical tools to accelerate team performance.
She gets great results because she brings out the best in individuals, teams and the cultures she works with. She has been an asset to both organisations I have worked with her in and she has always been a trusted partner and sounding board to me along the way. She is a great advocate for neurodiversity as she brings together her personal experience, her experience as a mum and her professional training experience.
I am looking forward to the programmes she is developing in this area and think it is most definitely needed in the modern corporate environment“