Team Development

Strong leadership creates strong teams—and strong teams shape thriving cultures.

Overview

At VLC, we believe that teams are living systems, not machines.
How a team thinks, relates, and acts together defines not just their performance, but the culture they create around them.

Our team development journeys create the space for teams to strengthen trust, deepen connection, and align around purpose.
We help teams move from coordination to collaboration - and from performance pressure to sustainable impact.

Because when teams thrive, organisations thrive.

What our Team Journeys focus on:

Every coaching journey is unique—shaped by the context, challenges, and aspirations of each leader. These are some of the areas we often focus on:

Building trust, safety, and relational intelligence

Aligning around shared values, vision, and purpose

Developing collective leadership—not just individual excellence

Creating the cultural conditions where people - and performance -can thrive

Strengthening communication, inclusion, and shared ownership

Navigating tension, polarity, and conflict.

Who it’s for:

  • Senior leadership teams shaping organisational culture

  • Newly formed or restructured teams building new ways of working

  • Teams navigating complexity, rapid growth, or change

  • Purpose-driven businesses scaling their impact

  • Cross-functional teams wanting to collaborate with more trust, clarity, and cohesion

Outcomes you can expect:

  • Stronger trust, connection, and psychological safety

  • Clearer alignment around shared purpose and values

  • Better communication and navigation of complexity

  • Greater collective resilience and adaptability

  • Cultures of collaboration, care, and sustainable high performance

What’s included in Standard Package:

  • Discovery & team culture diagnostic

  • Custom-designed team development journey

  • Facilitation of 3–6 interactive sessions (virtual or in person)

  • Values-based tools for trust, clarity, and collaboration

  • Optional New Leader Assimilation session

  • Team charter or commitments to embed learning and action

Curious how your team could evolve?
Book a discovery call.

Welcoming a new leader to your team?
Start with a New Leader Assimilation Session.

New Leader Assimilation

Start strong. Build trust early.

When a new leader joins a team, the early days set the tone for trust, collaboration, and culture. Our New Leader Assimilation process accelerates connection, surfaces hopes and expectations and builds the foundation for a thriving partnership between the leader and the team.

What’s Included:

🤝 Team Listening Process

•Anonymous input from the team about hopes, concerns, and questions

🧩 3-hour Facilitated Assimilation Session

•Guided dialogue between the new leader and the team

•Surfacing expectations, preferred working styles, and immediate opportunities

🎯 Action Planning

Identify shared priorities and agreements for working together

Who It’s For:

  • Teams welcoming a new senior leader

  • Growing businesses bringing in new leadership

  • Organisations wanting to accelerate trust and alignment during transitions

  • Leaders eager to co-create culture intentionally with their teams

Want to start strong?
Book a New Leader Assimilation Session here.

  • “ An insightful and thought-provoking journey of self-discovery”

    — Svilena Tzekova, Partner KPMG UK

  • “I think about what I learned almost every day.  No other leadership development has had this impact on me.”

    — Lynne Vandeveer, Managing Director LIVEKINDLY Collective

  • “ I continue to reflect (and will do for some time) on the content and impact on me, and I have no question that taking this time will have added value to me – and my team! – as we move forward.”

    – Alison Woods, Partner at CMS Law Firm

  • “The course was extremely valuable with content and facilitation that stimulated reflection, insight and awareness of self – drivers, values and triggers – critical to evolving one’s leadership of self and others."

    – Sarah Power, Global Change and Transformation Executive