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What’s holding your leadership team back?

27/12/2024

 
Move from silos to synergy. How we can help you tackle challenges in your leadership team in 2025 and beyond.
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Is your leadership team struggling with silos, misalignment, or interpersonal conflicts that hinder collaboration and progress?

These challenges don’t just slow you down - they erode trust, weaken decision-making, and prevent your team from reaching its full potential. But it doesn’t have to be this way. By focusing on what truly works - building meaningful connections, fostering cohesion, and creating space for open, honest conversations - you can unlock your team’s ability to thrive and lead with purpose.
At School of the Wild, we've guided diverse teams - from purposeful digital agencies and environmental charities to michelin-starred restaurants and teams from corporates - towards meaningful connections and actionable strategies. Our unique, nature-based programmes have transformed challenges into opportunities for growth and unity. Discover how we can help your leadership team overcome obstacles and achieve shared success.
By running programmes outdoors around a fire, we create space for teams to forge meaningful connections, uncover valuable insights and develop actionable strategies to address key questions such as:
  • how to  give feedback well,
  • how to overcome the challenges of hybrid working,
  • how to resolve tension between team members,
  • how to rebuild trust in leadership and each other after rounds of redundancies,
  • how to bring a new team together quickly,
  • and so much more.
Mostly the things that we helped teams with in 2024 can be categorised as being about trust, hybrid teams being too siloed, and occasionally about conflict between team members.

We get great feedback from clients, including: 
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“the best day spent together as a team in the history of the business”
Rebecca Smart, CEO, Autonative

"Nigel and the whole team were incredible. The safe and non judgemental space they created was unreal. The way the whole thing was structured to build trust and connection was so clever"
Amy Bosley, Head of Brand & Creative, Relex


A new development programme for leadership teams

To build on our success, we've developed a new programme specifically for leadership teams that we can run all year run round, including during the colder months - based at inspiring indoor rural venues, where we can venture into the outdoors when it's possible.

As part of this we’ve been asking leaders what kinds of issues they struggle with in their leadership teams.

Does your leadership team have these challenges?

So far, the top challenges we're finding that leaders say about their leadership teams:
  • people prioritising their own department over collaboration,
  • newly promoted directors not realising their focus is now on business results rather than personal results,
  • people not thinking creatively or sharing a strategy that they all agree on,
  • a toxic team culture driven by financial pressures,
  • dysfunctional personalities: some people in the team don’t get on or don’t speak to each other, while others have anger issues.

Any of these sound familiar?

The first one particularly - people prioritising their own department - seems to be a common challenge in leadership teams, so if you’re experiencing that, you’re not alone!

How our leadership team programme works

Our leadership team development programme is designed to help your team listen, talk and work together better, so that you can undo the restraining forces that get in the way, and focus on shared goals and results instead.

We use nature-based settings because they are completely away from your usual workplace, and because Nature brings out the best in people - plus it offers benefits to connection, wellbeing and creative thinking.
So if you need some help to work through human issues in your leadership team, and want to solve them together, have a look at our Transform programme.

And get in touch if you’d like to chat about what you’re struggling with in your team.

Our mission at School of the Wild is to help organisations transform their teams and learn to work together better, by enabling a positive and collaborative workplace culture. We believe that Nature brings out the best in people so we bring leaders and teams outside to help you reconnect and think differently.

Take a look at our Seed team building programme, Shift company offsite retreat, and Transform leadership team development programme  or get in touch for more information.
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  • For Teams
    • Seed: One day team building
    • Shift: Two+ day company offsite
    • Outdoor Team Building in London
    • Outdoor Team Building in Brighton
  • For Leaders
    • Transform: Leadership Team Development
    • Threshold: for leaders at a crossroads
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