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When change doesn’t just test systems — it tests people

Even the most capable teams can lose momentum during periods of transition.
Morale dips. Communication breaks down. Pressure builds as leaders try to maintain performance while juggling competing demands.

If your people are showing signs of change fatigue, disengagement or burnout, this workshop helps you re-energise and refocus them.

We’ll help your leaders sustain motivation, protect wellbeing, and rebuild clarity — so that high performance continues, even through uncertainty.

A bespoke, evidence-based workshop for your organisation

Every team experiences change differently. That’s why every Planet Positive Change session is bespoke — built around your culture, your current challenges, and your outcomes.

Drawing on proven frameworks from organisational and positive psychology, this session helps leaders and teams turn disruption into growth. You’ll work with your own live examples to create immediate, practical outputs you can implement the next day.

We integrate models such as:

  • Bridges’ Transition Model – understand what people need at each stage of change
  • Emotional Agility (Susan David) – manage emotion → clarify value → plan next step
  • Growth Mindset – replace fixed-mindset triggers with learning-focused language
  • Kobasa’s 3Cs – build resilience through Commitment, Control and Challenge
  • Seligman’s 3Ps – reframe setbacks to reduce permanence, pervasiveness, and personalisation
  • Change Curve, Tuckman’s Team Development, Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions, CLEAR Coaching, and more

Your team leaves with an individual and collective action plan, a toolkit of checklists and reflection guides, and a renewed sense of direction, trust and ownership.

Outcomes

By the end of the workshop, participants will:

  • Create a live transition phase map for their team with matched leadership actions
  • Draft an Emotional Agility script for a real issue (emotion → value → next step)
  • Diagnose their position on the Change Curve and define one targeted intervention
  • Identify top three fixed-mindset triggers and design small replacement experiments
  • Apply Kobasa’s 3Cs to sustain resilience (one commitment, one control, one challenge)
  • Reframe a current setback using Seligman’s 3Ps
  • Design a Progress Ritual to maintain motivation
  • Define a personal renewal safeguard and capacity “fence” to prevent burnout
  • Triage current workloads using the Control / Influence / Accept model
  • Diagnose team development stage and plan one action to accelerate performance
  • Identify one key team dysfunction and agree a practical solution
  • Select an appropriate leadership stance using Tannenbaum & Schmidt
  • Complete one CLEAR Coaching plan for a direct report

Format

  • Duration: Half-day or full-day (virtual or in-person)
  • Facilitators: Viv Dutton & Gill Thackray — business psychologists, lecturers and authors
  • Audience: Senior leaders, managers and teams navigating transformation or organisational change
  • Delivery: Bespoke workshop including interactive exercises, reflection, and live case work

What You’ll Take Away

  • A team transition roadmap with clear actions and owners
  • Personal resilience and mindset strategies that support sustainable performance
  • A toolkit of frameworks and checklists for continued use
  • A shared language for leading through uncertainty
  • Renewed clarity, energy, and alignment across your team

Client Feedback

“I can honestly say that I have never seen such fantastic feedback for any external provider in all of the 25 years I have been in post. Everyone said it had been an investment of their time.”
— Yvonne White, Manager, Wrexham Medical Institute

“The leadership and management training provided by Viv and Gill was one of the best sessions we’ve ever had at Northeastern University.”
— Dr Catherine Brown, Director, Graduate Research School, Northeastern University, London

“Viv ran a Mindful Leadership Workshop for our Bonington Leadership Programme — professional, responsive, and inspiring. The blend of theory, practice and reflection was exceptional.”
— Larissa Morrish, Head of Procurement, Lancaster University

“Professional content with a personable approach — always engaging, always impactful. Feedback from staff is consistently outstanding.”
— Nina Waters, Corporate Services Director, British School of Osteopathy

Ready to help your team thrive through change?

We’ll design a bespoke programme around your team’s needs, combining science, strategy and compassion.

Contact us to start a conversation about sustaining high performance in times of change.