Building a Healthy Leadership Team Workshop

This practical, interactive session helps your leadership team strengthen trust, clarify purpose and priorities, and define clear roles so you work better together, make faster decisions, and reduce stress, confusion and friction across the team.

Read time: 4.5 minutes

Most leadership teams don’t lack intelligence. They lack alignment.

They work hard. They care.

But they often pull in different directions without realising it.

Priorities drift. Roles blur. Decisions stall.

And under it all, trust erodes quietly until the leadership team stops functioning like a team.

In this article, I’ll walk you through a workshop I’ve designed to tackle exactly that.

It’s a practical, two-hour session that helps leadership teams get clearer, faster, and stronger together.

Based on the bestselling book The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni, the workshop focuses on building trust, creating shared clarity, and identifying what matters most right now.

That may sound simple. But it’s where most leadership teams fall short.

They skip past clarity because everyone assumes they already have it.

They avoid honest conversations because it feels easier in the moment.

They spread their energy across too many priorities and end up making slow progress on all of them.

The result? Good people, working hard, but often in conflict or confusion.

Here’s what I believe:

If your leadership team isn’t healthy, no amount of talent or strategy will save you.

It’s not a weakness to focus on team health. It’s the foundation of execution.

This workshop gives leaders a space to pause and reset.

To rebuild alignment around what they’re here to do, how they’ll behave, and what they need to focus on now, not later.

If you run this session, your leadership team will walk away with:

It’s not about transformation in two hours. It’s about traction.

I’ll share the full workshop structure below so you can run it, adapt it, or just steal what’s useful.

Let’s get into it…

Workshop Title

The Real Advantage: Building a Healthy Leadership Team

Duration: 2 hours

Audience: Leadership teams of any size (ideal for 4–12 participants)

Workshop Objectives

 Build trust and vulnerability within the leadership team
Answer Lencioni’s six clarity questions together
Identify one shared, organisation-wide priority
Strengthen commitment and accountability

Materials Needed

 Flipcharts or whiteboard
Markers
Sticky notes (two colours)
Printed handouts with the six clarity questions
Timer
Poster of Lencioni’s 5 Behaviours Pyramid (included in the download)

Workshop Plan

Welcome and framing (10 min)

Facilitation Tip: Set a relaxed tone. Encourage openness. Avoid overloading with theory.

The Trust Line (20 min)

Activity: Vulnerability Trust Walk

Creating clarity together (35 min)

Activity: Six Questions Sprint

Aligning on top priority (15 min)

Activity: Thematic Goal Voting

Who must do what (20 min)

Activity: Role Clarification Wall

Facilitation Tip: Focus on ownership, not just titles. Highlight where handoffs fail or ambiguity exists.

Personal commitments (10 min)

Activity: One Commitment Circle

Close (5 min)

Conclusion

Most leadership problems aren’t caused by bad strategy or poor talent.

Confusion, mixed signals and misaligned priorities cause them.

And those issues don’t fix themselves.

They build up slowly and invisibly until the team loses speed, trust and clarity.

That’s why workshops like this matter.

Not because they solve everything in two hours, but because they start the right conversations.

They create space for honesty. They get the team looking in the same direction again.

If you’re in a senior role, you don’t need another model or framework.

You need a leadership team that trusts each other, agrees on what matters, and follows through.

That’s what this session is designed to do.

If you’ve read this far, maybe it’s time to run it.

Or at least talk about what’s getting in your team’s way.

Because when a leadership team gets healthy, everything else gets easier.

If you want the slides and handouts for this workshop you can buy them here.

They are also part of my Bestselling Book Workshops Bundle, which brings the price per workshop down considerably.

You get everything you need to run it including the process, statistics, visuals, templates, workbooks and handouts.

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See you next week.