What if every day at work felt like your team’s most productive ‘away day’?
The most successful and innovative teams and organisations are highly collaborative, creative and productive – you will find the principles of great workshops infused throughout their culture.
This is a book about how running great workshops, and taking inspiration from them, can lead to a great team environment. Workshop Culture will show you how to create a happy and engaged team through small actions which lead to big results. It features a practical and accessible toolkit to help improve your team’s performance and productivity.
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ENDORSEMENTS
"In author Alison Coward’s telling, a workshop is no longer a time out, away from the real work; it is a time in – a time to focus deeply and collaboratively on what to do and how to do it well. Well-researched and beautifully written, this practical guidebook can be put to immediate use to help leaders build a thriving, engaged workforce."
Amy C Edmondson
Author, Right kind of wrong: The science of failing well
"Great workshops temporarily transform how we work. Alison Coward shows us how to make the transformation permanent. A smart guide to smart teamwork!"
Jake Knapp
New York Times bestselling author of Sprint
"Alison Coward’s advocacy of Workshop Culture is compelling - who among us wouldn’t prefer a work environment that’s responsive, welcoming and safe, and bursting with creative potential? She makes this possibility feel approachable and real. As a facilitator and collaboration designer, this book makes me want to applaud."
Sunni Brown
Social Entrepreneur and Bestselling Author
“An engaging, practical, step-by-step guide for building a healthy, creative, inclusive and innovative workplace."
Dave Gray
co-author, Gamestorming: A playbook for innovators, rulebreakers, and changemakers
"At a time in which work is increasingly uncertain, employees are seeking more meaning and businesses are striving to maintain competitive advantage, this poignant and practical book is the go-to manual for leaders and teams looking to build a better culture. One of the sharpest, most experienced leaders in the field, Alison Coward’s approach offers a robust, unique, and above all actionable roadmap to help teams (and the organisations they work for) flourish and thrive."
Nathalie Nahai
best-selling author, Business Unusual
"As an invaluable tool for teams to learn, strategise, align, and share, workshops have never been more important. Alison has a huge amount of experience in team dynamics and advising on how to get exceptional value from workshops and this book distills her essential insights into a very engaging and practical read to help teams transform how they work."
Neil Perkin
Author of Building the Agile Business and Agile Transformation
Workshop Culture for your organisation

Workshop Culture Keynote
An inspiring and practical talk to introduce your audience to the key principles and practices of a Workshop Culture.

Workshop Culture Masterclass
Engage your team in the transformation towards a Workshop Culture with our masterclass.

Services
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About the author
Alison Coward is the founder of Bracket, a team culture consultancy that partners with ambitious, forward-thinking organisations to help them build high-performing teams. She is a workshop facilitator, consultant and speaker with clients ranging across the creative, media, technology, and digital sectors. Alison is passionate about finding the balance between creativity, productivity and collaboration so that teams can thrive and do their best work together.
Alison has been working in, leading, and facilitating creative teams since early in her career and has an MA in Enterprise Management for the Creative Arts from University of the Arts London. Her first book A Pocket Guide to Effective Workshops was published in 2015 and has sold copies worldwide in both digital and hard copy format. She has delivered guest lectures at universities and keynote talks on the topics of collaboration, team culture and workshops at conferences in the UK, across Europe and in the US.