Workshop Culture: A Guide to Building Teams That Thrive

What if every day at work felt like your team’s most productive ‘away day’?

The most successful and innovative teams and organisations are highly collaborative, creative and productive - you will find the principles of great workshops infused throughout their culture.

This is a book about how running great workshops, and taking inspiration from them, can lead to a great team environment. Workshop Culture will show you how to create a happy and engaged team through small actions which lead to big results. It features a practical and accessible toolkit to help improve your team’s performance and productivity.

Workshop Culture gives you:

• Inspiring case studies from forward-thinking and innovative teams that have found success from a workshop culture
• A structured methodology that you can follow to bring more happiness, productivity and engagement to your team
• Practical exercises to help you build new skills and knowledge, and increase impact at work

Alison Coward is a team culture coach, consultant and founder of Bracket, a consultancy that partners with ambitious, forward-thinking companies to build high-performing, collaborative team cultures.

Alison Coward is the founder of Bracket, a consultancy that partners with ambitious, forward-thinking organisations to help them build high-performing collaborative team cultures. She is a strategist, workshop facilitator, coach, trainer, keynote speaker and author of A Pocket Guide to Effective Workshops. Her clients include Google, D&AD, Barclaycard, Wellcome and Channel 4. With nearly 20 years experience of 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.

Alison’s first book A Pocket Guide to Effective Workshops has sold more than 1800 copies across 38 countries in both digital and hard copy format since its publication in 2015. She has delivered keynote talks on the topics of collaboration, team culture and workshops at conferences in the UK, across Europe and in the US such as Mind The Product, Business of Software and Google’s Sprint Conf. She has also delivered guest lectures at various universities including the University of the Arts London, Kingston University and Cambridge University.