High Performance Learning Lab
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High Performance Learning Lab
Building high-performing teams through trust, safety, and effective leadership behaviours
Event Overview
High-performing teams don't happen by chance. They are built through trust, effective leadership, open communication and a shared commitment to achieving results.
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Yet many leaders spend the majority of their time responding to immediate challenges, leaving little opportunity to step back and examine the factors that truly influence team performance.
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This highly interactive workshop brings together leaders from across the manufacturing sector to explore what truly drives high-performing teams. Through a blend of reflection, discussion and experiential learning, participants will draw on their own leadership experiences to identify the behaviours that build trust, encourage healthy challenge and create stronger team alignment.
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Using practical exercises, attendees will explore how teams respond under pressure, what causes performance to break down, and how leaders can create the conditions for sustained success.
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Anchored in Patrick Lencioni's internationally recognised model of team effectiveness, the session provides a practical framework for understanding the foundations of high-performing teams. Participants will leave with valuable insights, actionable leadership tools and a clearer understanding of how to strengthen collaboration, accountability and performance within their own organisations.
Why Attend?
If you’re looking to build a team that truly performs, not just gets by, this workshop will give you the practical tools and insight to make it happen. You’ll explore what drives trust, healthy challenge, and shared accountability, using the proven Lencioni model as a foundation.
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Through a highly interactive mix of reflection, discussion, and hands-on activities (including LEGO® Serious Play), you’ll gain fresh perspectives on your own leadership style and learn how to create the conditions for stronger collaboration and better results.
You’ll leave with clear, actionable strategies you can apply immediately to strengthen your team’s effectiveness -
along with a deeper understanding of how to lead with clarity, confidence, and impact.
What You'll Experience
This is not a traditional classroom workshop.
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Participants will engage in a range of facilitated activities designed to create deeper reflection, stronger connections, and practical learning.
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Highlights include:
Leadership Lifeline Exercise
Reflect on the experiences that have shaped your leadership style and explore how these influence the way you lead today.
Trust & Psychological Safety
Discover how leadership behaviours either strengthen or undermine trust within teams and identify practical actions to create safer, more productive working environments.
LEGO Serious Play Experience
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Explore what enables high-performing teams, what causes performance to break down under pressure, and how leaders can create the conditions for success.
Lencioni Team Effectiveness Diagnostic
Assess the effectiveness of your own team and identify opportunities to strengthen performance across key areas.
Healthy Conflict, Commitment & Accountability
Bring these insights together to identify portfolio risks, complexity and opportunities for improvement.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is designed for:
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Manufacturing business leaders
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Managing Directors
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Operations Directors
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Department Managers
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Team Leaders
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Emerging Leaders
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Business owners seeking to strengthen team performance
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It is particularly valuable for leaders responsible for developing teams, managing change, or creating stronger organisational cultures.
What You Will Leave With
By the end of the session, participants will:
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Gain a clearer understanding of what drives high-performing teams.
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Identify behaviours that build trust and psychological safety.
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Improve their ability to facilitate healthy challenge and constructive conflict.
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Strengthen accountability and commitment within their teams.
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Leave with practical actions that can be implemented immediately.
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Build valuable connections with fellow manufacturing leaders.
Meet the Speakers
About Coach 2 Improve
Coach 2 Improve Ltd is based in the North East of England and partners with organisations to unlock reflection, intentional growth, and purposeful performance.
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We empower people and teams to lead with clarity, build trust, and solve what matters; through insight-led coaching and tailored facilitation.
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Our approach combines systemic thinking, behavioural science, and proven tools like Insights Discovery and Hogan, enabling transformational conversations and courageous action.
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Whether you’re developing leaders, strengthening team dynamics, or navigating change, we help you reflect deeply, grow intentionally, and perform with purpose
Supporting the Future of Manufacturing
This event forms part of the Future of Manufacturing Leadership Series, hosted by the Future of Manufacturing Foundation.
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The Foundation exists to promote manufacturing as a career destination and connect industry leaders with the next generation of talent.
A donation of £245 per delegate is requested to attend the event.
All contributions support the work of the Foundation.
