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Team narrative workshop

Team narrative workshop: Align your people, purpose, and story

Team narrative workshop: Align your people, purpose, and story

Teams work best when they know who they are.

A Team Narrative Workshop helps you uncover your shared identity, clarify your purpose, and articulate the story that guides your decisions, culture, and ways of working.

This is not a generic offsite exercise.

It’s a foundational alignment process for teams navigating:

  • Growth

  • New strategy

  • Leadership changes

  • Role transitions

  • Rapid scaling

  • Cultural shifts

  • Moments of uncertainty

When your story is clear, your direction becomes clear.

And when direction is clear, teams move with purpose.

Why teams need narrative work

Why teams need narrative work

Teams that lack a shared narrative often struggle with:

Teams that lack a shared narrative often struggle with:

friction in communication

misaligned expectations

confusion about priorities

low emotional connection

inconsistent decision-making

Teams with a strong story experience:

Story is the glue that holds teams together.

Story is the glue that holds teams together.

Clarity and cohesion

Faster decision-making

Stronger culture

Shared meaning

More resilient collaboration

What we create in the workshop

What we create in the workshop

Your team identity

We articulate:

  • Who we are

  • What we stand for

  • What makes us unique

  • The history that shaped us

  • The strengths and patterns that define us

We articulate:

  • Who we are

  • What we stand for

  • What makes us unique

  • The history that shaped us

  • The strengths and patterns that define us

Your purpose & direction

Together we define:

  • Why we exist

  • What we’re trying to build

  • The change we want to create

  • What success looks like now


This becomes your north star.

Values & leadership principles

We explore:

  • The behaviors you expect from one another

  • The leadership philosophy you share

  • The values that guide decisions\


These anchor your culture.

Team rhythms & ways of working

We clarify:

  • How we communicate

  • How we make decisions

  • How we handle conflict

  • How we maintain momentum


This reduces friction and speeds up execution.

Your team story

By the end, you have a cohesive, written narrative you can use internally and externally — a foundation for culture, strategy, and communication.

Who this workshop is for

Who this workshop is for

This training is ideal for

This training is ideal for

  • Founders & leadership teams

  • leadership teams

  • founder teams

  • product teams

  • organizations facing change

  • fast-growing companies

  • teams entering new markets

  • Founders & leadership teams

  • teams entering new markets

  • leadership teams

  • founder teams

  • product teams

  • fast-growing companies

  • organizations facing change

  • Founders & leadership teams

  • leadership teams

  • founder teams

  • product teams

  • organizations facing change

  • fast-growing companies

  • teams entering new markets

Perfect during:

Perfect during:

  • Offsites

  • Strategic planning

  • Team resets

  • New leadership cycles

What you walk away with

What you walk away with

After one session, you’ll leave with

A clear, shared team narrative

A clear, shared team narrative

Aligned purpose and direction

Aligned purpose and direction

Defined values and leadership principles

Defined values and leadership principles

Agreed ways of working

Agreed ways of working

Increased trust and connection

Increased trust and connection

A written narrative summary you can share across the company

A written narrative summary you can share across the company

Leaders describe the experience as

Leaders describe the experience as

Clarifying

Grounding

Clarifying

Energizing

“The moment things clicked”

Practical Details

Format

3–4 hour workshop

Group Size

Ideal for 4–20 people

Includes

Worksheets, narrative templates, team story document

Ready to align your team?

If your team needs clarity, connection, and direction — start with your story.

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