Lead your next team Liftoff with clarity and confidence.
Learn how to start any [liftoff_rotate words=”team,project,programme,business,side-hustle,passion project” speed=”1600″]
Learn how to design and facilitate a high-stakes team Liftoff—so your team starts strong, stays aligned, and delivers.
How your team starts, determines how it will continue.
You’ve been tasked to set up a new team—or turnaround a struggling team.
But you’re unsure how to set up a team for high performance.
This workshop gives you the structure, confidence, and tools to run a Liftoff that sets up the team for high performance from day one, and prevents dysfunction before it starts.
What You’ll Learn
Everything you need to run a Liftoff that works—under pressure.
- ✅ Design a complete team Liftoff from scratch
- ✅ Facilitate the high-stakes conversations between team members and leadership, with calmness and confidence
- ✅ Co-create the team’s purpose, alignment and context – together with the team and sponsors
- ✅ Adapt the Liftoff to any new team, team pivots (re-Liftoff), agile orgs, or startups
- ✅ Surface hidden tensions and risks before they become blockers
What You’ll Gain
A skill for life. Tools and techniques you can use as from next week!
- 🧠 Guidance on team dynamics, complex adaptive systems, agency and entropy
- 📄 Facilitation Techniques that have been tried and tested
- ✍️ Access to editable Liftoff templates and how to use them
- 🔍 Question banks and heuristics
- 🧭 Practice time for designing and co-facilitating a Liftoff
🧑💼 Who this workshop is for
A new team lead: Tried and tested approach you can use on Monday —without learning the hard way
A turnaround manager – Tools that actually work with messy, real-world teams
A coach or agile facilitator – Increased confidence and reusable templates across orgs that will get buy-in from leaders and support their aspirations
Leaders and founders – A better way to support your teams – show your engagement from day one.
🔍 Workshop Format
Delivery: Live online
Group size: 8–12 people (interactive cohort)
Time commitment:
- Part I: Concepts & design (1.5 hrs)
- Part II: Co-facilitated mini Liftoff (2 hrs)
- Part III: Retrospective + action plan (1 hr)
Follow-up: Optional clinic at 30 days
🧑🏫 Your Guides
Diana Larsen
Co-author of Liftoff: Start and Sustain Agile Teams and a globally respected advisor on team formation, leadership, and purpose.
Neal Taylor
Startup founder, enterprise agile coach, certified teacher, and experienced Liftoff facilitator. Has led transformation programs, coached agile at scale, and helped launch cross-functional teams in high-stakes settings.
| Package | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | £450 | 1-day workshop + toolkit |
| Pro | £650 | + 1:1 coaching + feedback on your Liftoff plan |
| Team Package | Custom | Bring 3+ team leads from your org, includes internal adaptation review |