Team development
For the leaders building what's next.
Bricolas is composed practice — moves drawn from a wide repertoire of frameworks, designed for this team, this leader, this room as it actually is. In team development, the work is what the team is solving for versus what they say they're working on.
We work with HR leaders, Learning & Development leaders, and senior leaders responsible for the development of the people they lead — from a single workshop day to multi-month learning journeys designed for the system as it actually is. Not an off-the-shelf module catalog. Not a day rate with a pre-built deck. Not a program that arrives fully formed and asks the organization to receive it.
The work begins with exploration and discovery — what this team, at this stage, in this organization, is actually navigating. Design draws on a wide repertoire: CliftonStrengths, 360 feedback, experiential learning grounded in the 4MAT cycle, group-relations methodology where the experience in the room is just as important as the concept we're trying to impart — so people don't just learn the concept, they feel it and live it. What gets composed is what fits — coaching woven into workshop arcs, strategy sessions informed by what the room surfaced, follow-through designed into the engagement rather than bolted on after.
Team engagements range from a single workshop day to multi-month learning journeys, scoped to the leaders involved, the depth of design, the systems being shifted, and the duration of follow-through.
A doctorate in Leadership Studies and eight years designing for senior teams across sectors — from Fortune-500 retail leadership summits to municipal-government leadership academies to national public-health accreditation organizations. The composition is the craft.
The repertoire
What gets composed is what fits the team in front of us. The repertoire — assessments, topics, modalities, engagement structures — draws from a stable set, composed for what the team is actually navigating.
Assessments
CliftonStrengths · WorkPlace Big Five · Hogan · Insights Discovery · MBTI · FIRO-B · Interview-based 360s · CCL Benchmarks for Managers
Commonly requested topics
Navigating change and complexity · Influencing across the organization · Working in systems · Group dynamics awareness · Coaching skills at work · Effective feedback · Leading vs managing
Modalities
Simulations · Experiential workshops (online and in-person) · Team coaching · Coaching for the entire team
Built as
Standalone workshops · Full learning journeys · Corporate retreats and off-sites
Common questions
What does team development at Bricolas look like?
Engagements range from a single workshop day to multi-month learning journeys. Each follows a six-step arc — Explore, Discover, Design, Deliver, Assess, Celebrate — but what gets composed inside Design depends entirely on what the team is navigating. Coaching, facilitation, workshop arcs, and strategy moves all live in the orchestration library.
Who buys team development from Bricolas?
HR leaders, Learning & Development leaders, and senior leaders responsible for the development of the people they lead. The work fits intact teams, leadership cohorts, and organization-wide development initiatives where the organization wants something designed for its system — not a pre-built module catalog or a day rate with the same deck everywhere.
Do you offer team coaching specifically?
Yes. Team coaching is a discipline within team development — coaching the team as a unit, attentive to authority, role, and task at the team level. It lives inside the Design step of the arc as one of the moves the orchestration library can compose. Engagements that lead with team coaching are scoped accordingly.
What's the 4MAT cycle?
A learning cycle developed by Bernice McCarthy that sequences learners through four questions — What? Why? How? What if? — to engage different learning preferences and deepen retention. John was personally trained by Bernice McCarthy. The 4MAT structure shapes how Bricolas workshops and learning journeys get designed.