A shared, honest picture
You see both what carries your collaboration and what holds it back.
An intensive process in which your team turns its tensions into a shared language and works through them in two days – and a development programme that anchors what the workshop sets in motion in your everyday collaboration.
Most teams feel it before they can name it. Meetings go round in circles. Decisions get made, then made again. The difficult conversations keep getting postponed. And there is a sense that you are capable of more together than you are showing.
It is rarely will or competence that is missing. What is missing is a shared language for what is actually going on between you.
In a Team Acceleration, we don't work from our analysis of you. We work from your own experience of reality, as it is here and now. It is an approach we have practised and refined for more than 20 years – and it has stood the test in many teams.
The material comes from you – and each person also looks at their own part in the dynamic.
You write the material yourselves. Before the workshop, every team member – including the leader – answers three questions:
The second half of that last question is the difference between a satisfaction survey and a development process.
The questions are simple. It is the space around them that makes the difference.
Openness with consent. Contributions are not anonymous, but no one is exposed. You send a draft that only your consultant sees. You get sparring in a one-to-one conversation. Then you decide for yourself what goes into the shared theme document. You are the author of your words, not their subject. That is what gives the words ownership.
The leader takes part on equal terms. The leader submits their own contribution and receives feedback like everyone else. Everyone shares responsibility for the team's trust and collaboration – and the leaders carry the main responsibility.
We walk the whole team through the process, the three questions and the principles. From the start, you know what happens to what you write, when it happens, and who sees it.
Each participant writes a draft and then has a one-to-one with one of our two consultants. The conversation explores and sharpens your contribution – it does not rewrite it.
The approved contributions are gathered in one document. You receive it two days before the workshop, so you have time to read and digest it.
We build trust and openness, prioritise the few themes that matter most, and work through them in depth – both the problems on the surface and the dynamics that drive you forward and hold you back. The workshop ends with personal feedback and commitments from each team member.
You receive a document with the feedback, themes and agreements, captured verbatim – and a proposal for how to build on them.
Based on the themes, we design a programme together that anchors the development in your everyday work, until the new patterns stick.
You see both what carries your collaboration and what holds it back.
A few themes worked through thoroughly, rather than a long list on a flipchart.
The difficult conversations happen in a safe space – and you feel it afterwards.
Personal feedback and concrete commitments from every team member.
Simple structures that hold in everyday work – not just good intentions.
A well-grounded picture of where you stand and what will make the biggest difference.
Two days can open a lot. But new patterns don't settle by themselves – they need to be practised, held on to and built into everyday work.
After a Team Acceleration, the team stands somewhere new. The themes have been spoken out loud, the knots have been loosened, and each person has made commitments. It is a strong starting point – and a fragile one. Under pressure, old habits quickly return, and the deeper dynamics the workshop has brought to light do not disappear in two days.
That is why Team Acceleration is strongest as the first phase of a development programme. The themes from the workshop become a precise picture of where your team stands, and the programme is designed from there. It might include:
This is where deep integration happens: when new ways of talking, deciding and handling disagreement are tried again and again in everyday work, until they stick. That is when the acceleration becomes a real upgrade of how you collaborate, think and act together. Read more about our approach on How we work.
Can a Team Acceleration stand alone? Yes. It then ends with the report and the agreements you carry forward yourselves. We are clear about it: embedding the change is then in your hands.
Team Acceleration suits teams that want to move on – whether they have stalled or want to move up a level.
It is a good fit when:
If trust in the team is seriously broken, asking everyone to write down and read each other's experiences is not always the right first step. Then we start somewhere else. We will work that out together in the first conversation.
Write to us, and we'll have a no-obligation conversation about where your team is and what a Team Acceleration and a follow-on programme could look like for you.