Team Workshops That Turn Friction Into Flow

Your team is full of capable people. The right workshop is what gets them rowing in the same direction, so the talent you already have starts adding up instead of canceling out.

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Is a Team Workshop Right for Your Team?

A CTL Leadership team workshop is built for leaders whose teams are talented but out of sync. New teams finding their footing, established teams stuck in old patterns, and groups heading into a big project, a reorg, or a season of change. If your people are working hard and still not clicking, this is for you.

When Talent Isn't the Problem

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You can have smart, committed people and still watch the work drag. Meetings circle the same points. Decisions stall. People step on each other in some places and leave gaps in others. The same friction shows up week after week, and everyone is a little more worn out by it.

The talent is there. What is missing is alignment, a shared understanding of how this particular group is built to work together.

That is what a workshop is for, as long as it is the kind that lasts. Most team workshops are a pleasant day that changes nothing. Everyone nods, heads back to their desks, and by the next week it is business as usual. Leslie's are built to stick: grounded in the 6 Types of Working Genius and brain science so your team understands why they work the way they do, with follow-through that turns insight into new habits instead of a fading memory.

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What the Workshop Looks Like

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  • Each person starts with the assessment. Everyone takes the 6 Types of Working Genius assessment and gets a personal debrief, so they understand their own strengths first.

  • The team maps itself together. You see everyone's strengths side by side, and exactly where work flows and where it stalls.

  • You leave with a plan. A clear picture of who should own what, so the right people are on the right parts of the work.

  • Support tapers as your team takes over. Leslie stays involved as much or as little as your team needs.

Leslie's team workshop is called The Collaboration Advantage, and it is built on the 6 Types of Working Genius. Here is how it works:

Every workshop is tailored to your team's real dynamics, projects, and goals. No generic slide deck. Whether you are gathered in one room or working across locations, the experience fits your team, with assessments and follow-up handled online so it works the way your team already does.

What Change Actually Looks Like

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Here is what it usually looks like. A team comes in capable but out of sync, the same handoffs breaking and the same friction surfacing week after week. In the workshop they finally see why. People had been stuck in work that drained them, while the work that energized them sat with the wrong person. Once the team could see it, they started trading and realigning the work almost on their own. The meetings got shorter, the handoffs held, and the room felt different.

That is the shift from grind to flow.

"One of the sharpest executive coaches I've worked with. Her experience with Working Genius changed how I operate with others and how others work with me."
Steve J.

Three Ways to Work Together

Every team starts in the same place, seeing itself clearly. Where you go from there is up to you. Here are the three ways to work with Leslie, from a single focused workshop to a full year of support.

Intensive Workshop (Fast Clarity)

Best for: teams that want a clear, fast read on how they work together, and leaders who want a strong first step before committing to more.

This is the foundation that every program is built on. Each person takes the 6 Types of Working Genius assessment and gets a personal debrief, so they understand their own strengths first. Then Leslie brings the team together for a focused 2- to 4-hour workshop and maps everyone side by side. You walk away with a team map and an executive summary that lays out your team's strengths, your gaps, and exactly where work tends to stall.

What you get: the assessment and individual debriefs, a team map, an executive summary, and the interactive workshop.

The result: in a single session, your team goes from guessing to seeing, with a shared language for who is built for what and a clear picture of where to put people next.

Momentum Program (Build Momentum, 6 months)

Best for: teams that want to actually change how they work, not just understand it.

Clarity is the start, but habits are what change a team. This program includes everything in the Intensive Workshop, then adds three strategy and implementation sessions across six months. Those sessions are where it gets real. Leslie helps you apply the team map to the work actually in front of you, work through friction as it shows up, and put the right people on the right stages of each project.

What you get: everything in the Intensive Workshop, plus three strategy and implementation sessions over six months.

The result: six months in, the new way of working has taken hold. Your team is not just aware of its genius, it is using it on real work, week after week.

Signature Engagement (Sustain Impact, 12 months)

Best for: leaders who want lasting change and a team that can carry it forward on its own.

This is the most comprehensive option, and it is designed so the team becomes self-sufficient by the end. It includes everything in the Intensive Workshop, plus a one-day team retreat, manager toolkits, monthly strategy and implementation sessions, a 90-day pulse check, and a final executive review. Support is high-touch at the start and tapers as your team takes the reins.

Across the year it moves through clear phases: a foundation phase of assessments, debriefs, and the team workshop; an activation phase with regular coaching; a stretch of strategic momentum through the middle months; and a final shift into guided autonomy and sustained success, where your team runs the system independent of CTL Leadership.

What you get: everything in the Intensive Workshop, plus a one-day team retreat, manager toolkits, monthly strategy and implementation sessions, a 90-day pulse check, and a final executive review.

There is also a two-phase option: a focused 2-hour Executive Leadership Alignment session to set context with your leaders first, followed by the full team workshop rollout.

Not sure which one fits? That is exactly what a first conversation is for.

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Other Ways Leslie Works With Teams

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The Collaboration Advantage is the flagship, but it is not the only way Leslie helps teams. Using the same brain-based CTL Framework, she also leads:

  • Productivity Reset Workshops, to help a team cut the chaos and rebuild focus.

  • Onboarding and Culture Alignment, to bring new people and new teams into a shared way of working.

  • Strategic Planning and Goal Execution, to turn big goals into a plan the team can actually run.

Each is tailored to where your team is and what it needs. If one of these is closer to your situation, the best next step is a quick conversation.

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What Your Team Gets Back

  • Clarity in roles and responsibilities, so people stop guessing and overlapping.

  • Stronger collaboration and accountability across the team.

  • Better communication, with fewer stalls and less friction.

  • A more innovative, strategic, and effective team, and a less stressed one.

  • A system that sustains performance with less effort, long after the workshop ends.

From friction to flow. More done, less drained.

Meet Your Workshop Host

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Leslie Minchin, PCC, PMP, founded CTL Leadership to help leaders and teams get more done with less overwhelm. She brings more than 20 years alongside leaders and is a facilitator of the 6 Types of Working Genius, pairing those tools with brain science so a workshop actually changes how people work together.

Her sessions are fun, engaging, judgment-free, and easy to apply, the opposite of the eye-roll workshop people brace themselves for. No jargon, and nothing that sits on a shelf afterward.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Each team member takes the 6 Types of Working Genius assessment and receives a personal debrief. Then the team meets to map their strengths together, see where work flows and where it stalls, and build an action plan for who owns what. Depending on the program, Leslie stays involved afterward to help the changes stick.

  • You can keep it to a single intensive workshop or build in ongoing support over 6 or 12 months. There is also a two-phase option that starts with a short executive leadership session before the full team workshop. Leslie helps you choose the right fit in your first conversation.

  • This is built to stick. By grounding the workshop in brain science and including follow-through, Leslie turns one-day insights into new habits, so the way your team works together actually changes and holds.

Imagine Your Team Rowing in the Same Direction

Picture the same people, finally aligned. Decisions that move, handoffs that hold, and a team that gets more done without the friction wearing everyone down.

That starts with one conversation. Not a hard sales pitch, a real conversation to understand your team and point you to the right first step.

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