Decision Making & Problem Solving
Think clearly. Decide confidently. Solve together.
A full or multi-day facilitated workshop that sharpens how your people analyse, decide, and tackle challenges as a team.
Develop the skill that keeps teams moving. Our Decision Making and Problem Solving workshops blend expert facilitation with hands-on practice โ indoors and out โ to help your people think more clearly under pressure, weigh options with confidence, and reach better outcomes together.
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Our Decision Making and Problem Solving workshops are practical, collaborative, 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 critical thinking, collaborative decision making, and problem-solving under pressure.
Tailored Themes
Topics can include decision-making frameworks, root cause analysis, creative problem solving, managing ambiguity, or bespoke themes relevant to your organisation and the challenges your teams face.
Each session is led by an experienced Fire Events facilitator who guides the group through carefully structured activities focused on critical thinking, collaborative decision making, and problem-solving under pressure.
Topics can include decision-making frameworks, root cause analysis, creative problem solving, managing ambiguity, or bespoke themes relevant to your organisation and the challenges your teams face.
Indoor & Outdoor Learning
We blend structured indoor facilitation with guided outdoor activities. Working outside shifts perspective, loosens thinking, and creates the conditions for more creative and honest problem solving.
Inclusive and Accessible
Sessions are designed to suit all backgrounds and experience levels. The day is structured, unhurried, and facilitated to ensure everyone feels confident to contribute, challenge, and engage throughout.
Ideal for Mixed Teams
These workshops work equally well across all levels โ from frontline teams to senior leaders. When people with different perspectives solve problems together, the results are sharper, more inclusive, and more likely to stick.
We blend structured indoor facilitation with guided outdoor activities. Working outside shifts perspective, loosens thinking, and creates the conditions for more creative and honest problem solving.
Sessions are designed to suit all backgrounds and experience levels. The day is structured, unhurried, and facilitated to ensure everyone feels confident to contribute, challenge, and engage throughout.
These workshops work equally well across all levels โ from frontline teams to senior leaders. When people with different perspectives solve problems together, the results are sharper, more inclusive, and more likely to stick.
One-Day Decision Making & Problem Solving Workshop
Base for this itinerary: Chevin Country Park Hotel & Spa, Otley (www.chevinhotel.co.uk/)
This immersive, full-day experience is designed to build sharper thinking, stronger collaborative decisions, and greater confidence when facing complex challenges โ through expert facilitation, practical frameworks, 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 make a decision you weren't fully confident in โ and what got in the way?"
10:00 โ How We Make Decisions.
Theme: Awareness & Understanding
Facilitated introduction to how the brain processes decisions and solves problems
Group discussion: where decision making breaks down in everyday work
Self-reflection exercise: "My decision-making style" โ recognising your own patterns and biases
Pair sharing: a decision that didn't go as planned and what you'd do differently
11:15 โ Outdoor Problem Solving Challenge.
Theme: Thinking Differently Together
Guided outdoor activity designed to surface how your team approaches problems under pressure
Structured challenges exploring collaboration, creative thinking, and group decision making:
How does your team divide responsibility when no one's in charge?
What happens to your thinking when time is short?
Debrief on return: what the activity revealed about your team's decision-making dynamics
12:00 โ Frameworks for Better Decisions.
Theme: Tools, Structure & Clarity
Facilitated session introducing practical decision-making frameworks your team can use immediately
Root cause analysis exercise: getting beneath the surface of a problem before jumping to solutions
Small group activity: applying a structured framework to a real challenge from your organisation
Group debrief: what changed when you slowed down and used a process?
13:00 โ Lunch.
14:00 โ Decisions in Teams.
Theme: Collaboration, Conflict & Consensus
How group dynamics shape the quality of decisions โ and what gets in the way
Group activity: "The Decision We Keep Avoiding" โ honest, facilitated conversation
Exploring the role of bias, hierarchy, and groupthink in team decision making
Pair work: practising constructive challenge and how to disagree productively
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 our team makes decisions?
What will I do differently from tomorrow?
Pair sharing and group reconvene
16:00 โ Closing Circle & Integration.
Grounding exercise and group reflection
Written reflection: "One decision I will approach differently after today..."
Personal commitment cards: one concrete action to carry forward
Feedback and close
17:00 โ Departure.
The problem solving options are endless but the pricing is simple...
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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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