Workshop Culture: a guide to building teams that thrive - Alison Coward

The Future of Work Scotland team are thrilled to start the 2025 program with a session with author of Workshop Culture - Alison Coward.

When we run great workshops, teams can achieve amazing things together. With the support of an expert facilitator, a team collaborates effectively, builds new ideas, moves projects forward and even builds better relationships as colleagues.
Alison Coward loved the results she got for teams in the collaborative sessions that she facilitated, but often wondered when they finished, why does it have to stop here? Don’t we need all of these outcomes, every day? So she started to explore what facilitators did to make teams gel and how that could be extended beyond the end of a workshop.
She coined the term “Workshop Culture” and published a book on the concept in November 2023. The book explores the question – “what if every day felt like your team’s most productive away day?”
In this session, Alison will introduce you to the concept of Workshop Culture and explain its main ideas.

Learning Objectives:

What You'll take away from this session:

• Why workshops are the solution to ineffective collaboration
• How facilitation skills enable high-performing teams
• The foundations of a Workshop Culture

Here's a little more about our amazing guest speaker:

Alison Coward is the founder of Bracket, a consultancy that partners with ambitious, forward-thinking companies to help them build high-performing team cultures. She is a team culture coach, workshop facilitator, trainer, keynote speaker and author of “Workshop Culture: a guide to building teams that thrive” and “A Pocket Guide to Effective Workshops”. Clients include: Google, Meta, Wellcome and the V&A. With 20 years’ experience working in, leading and facilitating creative teams, Alison is passionate about finding the balance between creativity, productivity and collaboration so that teams can thrive and do their best work together.