A one-day workshop designed to help embed FidesOak’s ‘High Performing Team Habits’
Summary
A one-day workshop designed to help embed FidesOak’s ‘High Performing Team Habits’ – a practical framework defining the everyday behaviours that support team cohesion, leadership, psychological safety, and more. This wasn’t just an introduction to a new model – it was a dynamic, hands-on session to explore what high performance looks and feels like in action.
“Introducing a new framework is one thing but embedding it is another. I designed this session to help the team move beyond knowing what the High Performing Team Habits are, and begin to explore how they show up day to day. We used metaphor and playful challenge to bring the habits to life, challenge assumptions, and reflect on the part each person plays in shaping team performance.”
– Alison, AHC Learning Ltd.
About The Client:
FidesOak is a values-led leadership development consultancy based in the UK. They support individuals, teams, and organisations to create high-performing, purpose-driven cultures. This session brought together their internal team – people who not only design and deliver transformation programmes for others.
What We Did:
The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® session was structured around FidesOak’s High Performing Team Habits framework. These habits define the elements that drive team effectiveness: cohesion, communication, leadership, vision-sharing, and psychological safety.
We began by building LEGO® minifigures to represent how each person was showing up that day – encouraging presence and personal reflection. From there, the team explored the five core elements through a series of metaphor-rich builds and structured reflections:
- Unusual animals: Challenge assumptions and reflect on hidden strengths.
- Structure builds: Explore shared vision and alignment.
- Scene creation: Surface behaviours that support or hinder team cohesion.
- Blind individual builds within a group task: Highlight how information is shared, and withheld.
- Bridge building: Explore leadership and accountability.
Throughout the session, the group connected each activity back to the relevant “I will…” and “I will not…” habits from the HPT framework, bringing theory into tactile, experiential learning.
Challenges
Having a remote participant in a highly tactile and visual session may have posed a challenge and with thoughtful facilitation and the group’s openness ensured they remained included and engaged.
Feedback and Results
Here’s what participants said:
“A great learning experience.” Finance Director
“Engaging, interactive and insightful.” Programme Manager
“Be open and willing to take part and you will get the best out of it.” Coach Support
“A creative, hands-on workshop that fosters team collaboration and reflection.” Operations Manager
“I loved the day. At first I was apprehensive however I quickly started creating with the Lego pieces and during the exercises that Alison facilitated it was amazing to see the real life applications of playing with Lego.” Programme Manager
“Insightful, engaging, and transformative team-building experience.” Marketing Strategy Consultant
“A truly engaging and fun way to reflect on how we work together and individually.”
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