Collaboration
Bringing teams together to think clearly and work well together
Collaboration work at Great Minds Don’t is about creating the conditions for teams to think properly together.
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This is in-person facilitation for moments when a team needs to pause, reflect and realign. When people are capable and committed, but something is getting in the way. When conversations feel careful, decisions feel heavy, or everyone is busy without feeling properly connected.
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These sessions are designed experiences. They are structured, engaging and purposeful. Teams leave clearer about themselves, each other and how they want to work together.
What this work is really about
Most teams spend very little time reflecting on how they work together. Day-to-day pressures reward speed and output, not shared understanding.
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Collaboration sessions create space to slow things down just enough for people to notice patterns, surface assumptions and make sense of difference. The work is not about fixing people or forcing agreement. It is about helping teams see more clearly and decide, together, how they want to move forward.
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When that happens, energy shifts. Conversations become easier. Progress feels possible again.
How Hayley works with teams
These sessions are facilitated by Hayley Brackley, whose style is calm, thoughtful and quietly confident.
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Hayley is known for creating rooms that feel safe without being soft. She brings structure without rigidity, curiosity without judgement, and just enough challenge to help teams move beyond surface conversations.
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People are not put on the spot, but everyone is involved. Difference is welcomed and worked with. Insight emerges through reflection, discussion and hands-on activity, rather than being delivered as content.
Using LEGO Serious Play, Facet5 and TeamScape
Collaboration sessions draw on a small number of well-chosen tools, used thoughtfully and with intention.
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LEGO® Serious Play® is used as a thinking tool, helping teams make ideas visible and share perspectives that are often hard to articulate. It levels the room, slows thinking down and invites contribution from everyone.
Facet5 and TeamScape are used to support team exploration. They provide a shared, non-judgemental language for understanding preferences, behaviours and patterns at team level. Rather than labelling individuals, they help teams see how difference shows up under pressure and how strengths can sometimes collide.
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Used together, these tools reduce blame and guesswork. They help teams talk about friction, difference and ways of working in a practical, constructive way.
What collaboration sessions look like
Collaboration work is typically delivered as half-day or full-day, in-person sessions. This time matters. Teams need space to explore complexity properly, not rush towards tidy answers.
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Sessions might take the form of a team away day, a strategy or planning day, a team reset, or a facilitated working session at a key moment of change or growth.
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Each session is designed around your team, your context and what you want to achieve. Short activities may be woven in, but the value comes from depth, reflection and shared thinking.
Ongoing team coaching and facilitation
For some teams, the most meaningful work happens over time.
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Ongoing team coaching involves a series of facilitated sessions with the same team, allowing insight, trust and ways of working to develop gradually. This creates space to notice patterns, test new approaches and adapt together.
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This is learning-focused, reflective work. It is not conflict management or therapy. It is about helping teams learn how to work well together, over time.
What teams notice afterwards
Teams leave with greater clarity and shared understanding. Conversations feel more direct and less cautious. Decisions are easier to make and easier to stick to.
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There is often a noticeable shift in how it feels to work together. Less friction. More trust. More confidence navigating difference. The work feels lighter, not because it is easier, but because people are no longer working against unseen tension.
