A guided walk-and-talk workshop for hybrid and distributed teams

• Help your team reflect on the hybrid way of working​
• ​Strengthen your team’s happiness and wellbeing, so you can overcome challenges and grow together

Covid has transformed the way we work. As the pandemic recedes, individuals, teams and organisations alike are seeing that the world of work has changed dramatically.

For many organisations hybrid working arrangements are a work in progress - when people don't spend much time together in person, silos are created and it is harder to foster feelings of belonging. So how do you balance the needs of your company and the wellbeing of the individuals in your team?

Covid has also changed our relationship with work as individuals. It has showed us it is possible to work in a way that’s more flexible and balanced with our other needs, and many team members now feel they need this from their employers.

We think businesses could use some help in navigating this territory - including how to balance the needs of organisations, teams and individuals, to build working arrangements that work for everyone.

Find out more about a Making Work Better walking programme and whether it’s right for your team

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with hybrid working and digital acceleration, we needed to disconnect to reconnect; to spend some proper time together.... this was exactly what we needed to re-enter collaborative work with stronger connections and more open minds

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Walk and talk to make teams work better

Our ‘Making Work Better’ review sessions bring dispersed teams together to talk about how work has changed, so that you can move forward and find the best working arrangements for everyone.

We take your team for a walk in the beautiful Sussex countryside for a morning (or afternoon) to give you a relaxing and stimulating environment where we facilitate your discussions to help you reflect on hybrid and remote working and how it has affected work for you all.

The aim is to reflect on these issues together and try to map out a way that you can respond, both as a team and as individuals, in the future.

We can tailor this to your needs, but our suggested programme covers the following areas:

• Your relationship with each other – including how you communicate as team members
• Your relationship with work as individuals – what you want out of it and how you each want to work
• Your work as a team or organisation – the work you do, the way you work as a team and the challenges you face

We have built this format to enable you to have a constructive, open conversation about some potentially difficult themes – for example, some team members may want to work at home more, some may be feeling disconnected when working from home, and the company may want people in the office a certain number of hours a week in order for its teams to function properly.

We give you the space to discuss and resolve these issues in a collaborative and productive way.

We’ll even provide tea and cake on the walk!

How it works

• We’ll meet you at a train station in East Sussex and lead you on a guided walk into the beautiful Sussex countryside.
• The walk is either circular or ends at a different train station
• Using our Make Work Better process we facilitate your team in collaborative and productive conversations 
• Walks are moderate and last 3 to 4 hours, suitable for all levels of fitness
• We’ll stop on the way for tea and cake
• Walks are lead by experienced professional facilitators 
• Group sizes: 5 to 25 people

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Follow up options

This initial session brings the possibility of various follow up consultancy and coaching sessions, indoors and outside. These include:
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• Individual coaching - to help individuals redefine their relationship with work, and find the best hybrid working arrangements for them within their employer’s parameters
• Team development - for example to improve your culture, your team relationships and surface practical steps for how you can work together better
• Organisational consultancy - for example, in helping to develop a hybrid working plan based on the initial session. This might include further planning sessions and/or developing the plan on your behalf

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Leaders and facilitators

Nigel Berman

Nigel is founder and Wild Facilitator of School of the Wild. He is passionate about creating space for meaningful conversations that lead to change in the way people work, and facilitates team and leadership sessions for a variety of businesses, NGO's and corporates. Nigel has spent 25 years leading businesses - from publishing to e-commerce - that communicate different ways of seeing the world. School of the Wild is his way of helping to reconnect people and planet for a better world.

Price

Prices start from £1,800, and vary according to how many people are in your group.
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​We offer inclusive pricing so if you are charity or not-for-profit, ​let's talk and see how we can work with your budget.

For more information, and to book:

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