Improve Team Culture Workshop

This practical hands-on workshop helps your team build a stronger team culture, communicate more openly and align around what matters so everyone feels safer, more connected and better equipped to work together.

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Most teams don’t talk about culture until something goes wrong.

Someone quits unexpectedly. A project drags on with no clear reason. Meetings feel tense or too quiet. Trust dips, but no one knows exactly when it happened.

This workshop is designed to give teams a way to catch that earlier. To take team culture seriously while things are still working, not just when they start breaking down.

Here’s what I’ll walk you through: a simple, structured team workshop based on The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle.

It focuses on the three things that shape team culture the most.

Safety, vulnerability and shared purpose.

And helps your team explore all three in just two hours.

Why does that matter? Because those three ingredients aren’t “nice to have” values.

They’re the difference between a team that plays it safe and one that works well together.

The problem is that most teams try to improve culture through abstract values, vague goals, or one-off surveys.

None of that changes how people act with each other day to day.

Culture comes from behaviours, not posters.

And that’s what this workshop targets.

Here’s something I believe strongly:

You don’t need a full reset to change your team culture. You just need the right conversations.

This workshop gives your team space to have them.

After this workshop, participants will:

The full workshop outline is below, along with tips if you’d like to run it yourself.

You won’t fix culture in two hours. But you can shift the atmosphere. You can make space for better conversations.

And you can start building the kind of culture people want to be part of.

Let’s get into it…

Workshop Title

Improve Team Culture: Safety, Vulnerability and Purpose in Action

Duration: 2 hours

Audience: Teams of any size (ideal for 6–20 participants)

Workshop Objectives

 Experience how small behaviours shape culture
 Reflect on how safety and vulnerability show up in their team
 Strengthen trust through open dialogue
Align around shared purpose and values

Materials Needed

 Flipchart or whiteboard
Sticky notes and markers
Handouts with definitions of the 3 key ideas from the book
Timer
Post-it voting dots (optional)

Workshop Plan

Welcome and Set-Up (10 min)

Safety Check-In (15 min)

Activity: "Belonging Signals"

Facilitation Tip: Watch for tone—keep it warm, not clinical. Encourage short, real examples.

The Vulnerability Loop (30 min)

Activity: "What I Need Help With"

Stories of Purpose (30 min)

Activity: "Best Team Moment"

Culture Commitments (20 min)

Activity: "One Thing We’ll Do"

Close and Reflect (10 min)

Facilitation Tips

Conclusion

You don’t need to overhaul your whole organisation to improve team culture.

You just need to start with how people treat each other in the day-to-day.

This workshop isn’t a magic fix.

But it gives your team a real chance to pause, reflect and reconnect.

To notice the things that are working. To name what’s getting in the way. And to take a few small steps that actually stick.

Because culture isn’t a plan, it’s a pattern.

It’s what we do when we show up.

And when you give a team the space to practise safety, vulnerability and shared purpose, you set that pattern in motion.

It doesn’t need to be flashy. It just needs to be real.

If that’s something your team needs right now, this is a good place to start.

If you want the slides and handouts for this workshop, they are in my Bestselling Book Workshops Bundle.

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.