Leading People, Managing Teams
Lead with confidence. Manage with purpose. Inspire every day.
A full-day facilitated workshop that transforms how your people lead, manage performance, and bring out the best in those around them.
Develop the skill that defines great workplaces. Our Leading People, Managing Teams workshops blend expert facilitation with practical application โ indoors and out โ to help your people step into leadership with confidence, manage performance with clarity, and create an environment where their teams genuinely thrive.
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Our Leading People, Managing Teams workshops are practical, honest, and grounded in real-world application. Each session is tailored to your team, but typically includes:
Expert Facilitation
Each session is led by an experienced Fire Events facilitator who guides the group through carefully structured activities focused on leadership style, people management, motivating individuals, and building high-performing teams.
Tailored Themes
Topics can include leadership styles and their impact, managing performance and difficult conversations, delegation, motivation, building trust within teams, or bespoke themes relevant to your organisation and the people challenges you face.
Each session is led by an experienced Fire Events facilitator who guides the group through carefully structured activities focused on leadership style, people management, motivating individuals, and building high-performing teams.
Topics can include leadership styles and their impact, managing performance and difficult conversations, delegation, motivation, building trust within teams, or bespoke themes relevant to your organisation and the people challenges you face.
Indoor & Outdoor Learning
We blend structured indoor facilitation with guided outdoor activities. Working outside strips away hierarchy, levels the playing field, and creates the conditions for more honest conversations about how your team is really being led.
Inclusive and Accessible
Sessions are designed to suit all backgrounds and experience levels โ whether your people are new to management or seasoned leaders looking to sharpen their approach. The day is structured, unhurried, and facilitated to ensure everyone gets maximum value.
Ideal for Mixed Teams
These workshops work equally well across all levels โ from first-time managers to experienced leaders. When people explore leadership together, they build shared language, mutual respect, and a stronger collective culture.
We blend structured indoor facilitation with guided outdoor activities. Working outside strips away hierarchy, levels the playing field, and creates the conditions for more honest conversations about how your team is really being led.
Sessions are designed to suit all backgrounds and experience levels โ whether your people are new to management or seasoned leaders looking to sharpen their approach. The day is structured, unhurried, and facilitated to ensure everyone gets maximum value.
These workshops work equally well across all levels โ from first-time managers to experienced leaders. When people explore leadership together, they build shared language, mutual respect, and a stronger collective culture.
One-Day Leading People, Managing Teams Workshop
This immersive, full-day experience is designed to transform how your people lead and manage โ building the confidence, self-awareness, and practical skills needed to motivate individuals, manage performance, and create teams that are engaged, effective, and proud of what they do โ through expert facilitation, honest conversation, and time spent working together outdoors.
Reset, Reconnect, Recharge
09:30 โ Welcome & Setting the Scene.
Arrival, light refreshments: herbal teas, fruit, and pastries
Meet the facilitator and group introductions
Outline of the day, group agreements, and intention setting
Opening reflection: "When did you last feel truly confident in how you were leading your team โ and what made the difference?"
10:00 โ What Kind of Leader Am I?
Theme: Awareness & Understanding
Facilitated introduction to leadership styles and the impact they have on team culture and performance
Group discussion: where leadership breaks down in everyday work and why
Self-reflection exercise: "My leadership style" โ recognising your strengths, blind spots, and default behaviours under pressure
Pair sharing: a moment when your leadership approach helped โ or hindered โ your team
11:15 โ Outdoor Leadership Challenge.
Theme: Leading When It Matters
Guided outdoor activity designed to surface how your team leads and follows under pressure
Structured challenges exploring communication, delegation, and decision making without a script:
Who steps up when there's no clear structure โ and who steps back?
What does your leadership style look like when the pressure is on?
Debrief on return: what the activity revealed about your natural leadership behaviours
12:00 โ Managing Performance & Motivating Individuals.
Theme: Getting the Best from Your People
Facilitated session on what really motivates people โ and why one size never fits all
Understanding the difference between managing performance and truly developing people
Small group activity: building a practical approach to a real performance or motivation challenge from your team
Group debrief: what changes when you lead the person, not just the task?
13:00 โ Lunch.
14:00 โ Difficult Conversations & Building Trust.
Theme: Courage, Clarity & Connection
How psychological safety and trust define the difference between average and high-performing teams
Group activity: "The Conversation We Keep Avoiding" โ honest, facilitated practice
Exploring how to give feedback, manage conflict, and hold people accountable with confidence and care
Pair work: preparing for and practising a real leadership conversation you've been putting off
15:15 โ Outdoor Closing Activity.
Theme: Clarity & Commitment
Short outdoor session in pairs or small groups
Guided reflections:
What one change would make the biggest difference to how I lead my team?
Who on my team needs more from me โ and what's been stopping me from giving it?
Pair sharing and group reconvene
16:00 โ Closing Circle & Integration.
Grounding exercise and group reflection
Written reflection: "One thing I will do differently as a leader from tomorrow..."
Personal commitment cards: one concrete action to carry forward
Feedback and close
17:00 โ Departure.
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"The best team away day we’ve been on! It really made me stop and think about who the hell is in my team. The resourcefulness of everyone was incredible – even the rain couldn’t stop us – in fact it added to the testing nature of the day!”
Pfizer
Considerations when planning your development programme...
Why?
Need some time out, to have fun, to get to know each other and to feel energised? (If you aim to have a learning outcome, explore our Facilitated Team Building Events)
Who?
Work out exactly who is attending and link this to your 'Why'. Half or full day, indoors, outdoors or more adventurous. It's your choice and needs to fit with the team.
Where?
City centre or country house hotels, training centres to small boutique country pubs on the South Downs. There will always be the perfect venue to suit your team, your aims and your budget
When?
Synchronise your diaries! Q1 or Q4? Half or full day? Evening? Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter?
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