Royal College of Podiatry - Team Coaching
Client: Royal College of Podiatry
Project: Systemic Team Coaching Programme
What they needed: To rebuild trust, improve collaboration, and align a dispersed team around shared goals and values following significant conflict and organisational change.
What we delivered: A tailored, multi-session systemic team coaching programme grounded in Peter Hawkins’ Five Disciplines and Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions, blending in-person and virtual workshops with practical tools for embedding change.
Result: Stronger connection, increased psychological safety, clearer shared goals, and greater collective accountability.
Client: Royal College of Podiatry
Project: Team Coaching Programme | Spring 2025
What they needed: To rebuild trust, improve collaboration in a fully remote team. To align behind shared goals and values following some tensions and organisational transformation.
What we delivered: A systemic team coaching programme blending in-person and virtual workshops with practical tools for embedding change.
Result: Stronger connection, increased psychological safety, shared purpose and goals, and greater collective accountability.
“Team Coaching helped us understand each other better, reset how we work together, and start building a stronger team culture.”
Royal College of Podiatry - Team Coaching
The Context
The Royal College of Podiatry is the UK’s professional body for podiatrists, representing members and advancing the profession. The organisation was going through transformation and launching a new five-year strategy under a new Chief Executive.
Growth Space was invited to work with a remote team which had experienced a breakdown in trust, motivation, communication and collaboration. With team members spread across the UK and a mix of long-standing staff and new joiners.
The leadership recognised the need for structured support to reconnect the team, rebuild trust, and create a shared way forward.
Discovery & Design:
We began with a discovery phase to understand the team’s reality. This included:
A confidential team survey measuring trust, psychological safety, conflict, accountability, and results-focused.
Personality profiling to surface communication styles, strengths, and preferences.
Review of organisational strategy, values, and current team priorities.
The findings confirmed the need to rebuild trust, improve constructive challenge, and align the team’s purpose and goals with the wider organisation.
Drawing on Peter Hawkins’ Five Disciplines of Systemic Team Coaching and Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, we designed a tailored five-part programme over three months, combining one full-day in-person workshop and shorter online sessions. We also introduced practical tools: Personal User Manuals and a Team Charter to make agreements visible and actionable.
Delivery:
The programme followed the Systemic Team Coaching journey:
Connecting to Purpose and Stakeholders. We explored why this team exists, who it serves, and the expectations of its stakeholders, linking team purpose to the organisation’s strategic goals.
Agreeing on Goals, Roles and Focus . Through facilitated discussion, we identified shared goals and clarified roles to reduce duplication, ambiguity, and silos.
Strengthening Trust, Behaviours and Team Habits . The heart of the work: building psychological safety, surfacing tensions, and agreeing on new norms through the Team Charter covering behaviours, communication, meetings, decision-making, and accountability.
Improving System-Wide Relationships We explored how the team collaborates with the wider organisation, and identified barriers to influence and connection.
Embedding Reflection and Growth We closed with a focus on sustaining progress, creating habits for regular reflection, celebrating wins, and keeping the Team Charter alive.
Alongside Hawkins’ 5 Disciplines of Team Model, Patrick Lencioni’s framework helped us explore positive behaviours and what happens when they’re missing:
Trust and psychological safety
Healthy conflict
Commitment
Accountability
Focus on collective results
The Impact
The team reported a stronger connection, better understanding of each other’s working styles, and greater willingness to give and receive constructive challenge.
100% felt more connected to their colleagues than they felt before the programme.
100% felt more positive about being part of the team than at the start.
70% said they know and understand teammates better, including how they like to work, communicate, and think.
100% reported that personal user manuals and personality profiling helped them understand others’ communication and working styles.
Feedback
People enjoyed the mix of activities, including reflection, discussion, and group work.
80% rated the facilitation as highly effective in helping the team reflect and make progress.
Testimonials
“Getting to know the team better has made such a difference to how we work together. ”
“The personality profiles and user manuals helped me understand how each team member likes to work — it’s already making collaboration easier.”
“I now feel more positive about being part of this team than I did before.”
“We’re now having more open conversations and understand each other’s perspectives.”
Would you like to help your team work better together?
Get in touch about our Team Coaching Programmes.
Vitis Regulatory Team Away Day
Client: Vitis Regulatory
Project: Summer Team Away Day 2025
What they needed: A high-energy, high-impact team day to connect colleagues across departments, bring values to life, and spark creative collaboration
What we delivered: A unique Team Away Day that was bold, fun, creative and meaningful
Result: 100% of participants said it helped build cross-team relationships and would recommend it to another team: Vitis Regulatory
Client: Vitis Regulatory
Project: Summer Team Away Day 2025
What they needed: A high-energy, high-impact team day to connect colleagues across departments, bring values to life, and spark creative collaboration.
What we delivered: A unique Team Away Day that was bold, fun, creative and meaningful
Key result: 100% of participants said it helped build cross-team relationships and would recommend it to another team
“The best team away day I’ve ever done.”
Vitis Regulatory Team Away Day
The Context
Vitis Regulatory is a consultancy with a distributed team spanning multiple departments and regions. They wanted their 2025 team day to feel anything but corporate. The goal? Connection, creativity, and celebration, not awkward games or forced fun.
The brief: make it bold, make it meaningful, and above all, make it memorable.
What we delivered:
We designed a full-day creative experience: The V Factor, a fast-paced challenge blending storytelling, collaboration, collaboration and communication and a healthy dose of fun.
How it worked:
We began by really getting to know the client, their culture and their people. We learned about previous team away days, what was popular and what wasn’t.
Six teams across roles and departments were challenged to create a 3-5 minute video and choose from one of five themes that explained their work to the outside world. They had to assign roles, plan their project, manage a fictional budget, and bring their idea to life.
They had access to a “shop” where they could buy for fun props (wigs, hats and fancy dress) and technical kit, expert input, sound effects and visuals, and editing help. Each project was presented in a live X-Factor-style showcase, with a judging panel scoring creativity, collaboration, values, technical execution and budget strategy. Prizes were awarded to the winning team, as well as for best performance, funniest moment and creativity.
At the end of the day there was a great sense of achievement, a lot of laughter, new connections and memories made.
What They Learned (Without Realising It)
Project Planning - turning loose ideas into a structured, deliverable piece
Budgeting - making decisions under constraints and trade-offs
Communication - communicating ideas, listening to each other, presenting
Team Dynamics - collaborating quickly across functions and styles
Adaptability – working through tech hiccups and tight deadlines
Trust & Connection – getting to know colleagues as people, not just job titles
The Impact
100% said it helped build relationships across teams.
100% would recommend the activity to another team.
100% rated the day 4 or 5 out of 5.
93% felt more connected to Vitis’ culture and purpose.
87% left with ideas to apply in their day-to-day work.
85% said “Yes, absolutely” it was time well spent, with the remaining 15% saying “Mostly”.
85% rated the facilitation 4 or 5 out of 5.
Testimonials
“The challenge was genuinely brilliant – clever, creative and totally relevant to our work.”
“I learned more about my colleagues in one afternoon than I had in months. There was a real sense of joy from being together.”
“It encouraged us to think outside the box and find creative solutions together.”
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We love to design and create meaningful team events that are tailored to your business, culture and people.