Ways to work together

When capable people keep producing outcomes that fall short, don't start by trying to fix them.

Start with the conditions that shape their performance.

Growth Edge works with senior leaders and leadership teams to build future-fit leadership and turn strategy into results - addressing the patterns that slow decisions, waste effort and hold back performance.

The problems that keep coming back

"Departments behave like separate companies."

"Transformation is launched. Old patterns are still running."

"The team agrees in the meeting. Later, decisions unravel."

"The strategy is clear at the top. Teams still don't know what it means for them."

Dustin Woods - 25+ years inside complex organisations. Helping leaders tackle difficult issues, make clearer decisions and turn agreement into action - with warmth, purpose and playful provocation. More about me →

Leadership & team effectiveness
Talent & organisation development
Senior leadership facilitation

Fix the conditions first, not the people.

Three ways to shape the conditions

Building future-fit leadership

Future-fit leadership goes beyond individual competencies. It's the ability to create the conditions for people to perform - within teams, across boundaries and across the organisation. Start where the work is stuck.

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Teams

Team Effectiveness

Clearer priorities. Stronger decisions. Shared accountability.

Understand what's holding the team back, reset the conditions for performance, or work through a specific challenge together.

Team Diagnostic Survey

Leadership team effectiveness

See what's really holding the team back and turn the findings into practical changes. Uses the Team Diagnostic Survey (TDS), built on Harvard research into the Six Conditions that predict up to 80% of team effectiveness.

Problems addressed: Strong leaders run strong functions - but together they're not leading the organisation. Priorities compete, decisions unravel and cross-functional work stalls.

Who it's for: C-suite / CEO direct reports · functional leadership teams.

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Use the findings to agree what needs to change in the conditions around the team, then turn insight into practical action.

Survey + Debrief

TDS survey + 1-hr results, insights & recommendations session.

Survey + WorkshopRecommended

TDS survey + full-day action workshop + two 1-hr follow-through reviews.

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Get Stuff Done

Facilitated working sessions

Focused working sessions that help teams tackle real work together - with a facilitator holding the structure, pace and dynamics.

Problems addressed: New teams need a shared starting point. Restructures disrupt how people work together. A new strategy needs translating into clear team priorities, or a difficult challenge keeps returning without progress.

Who it's for: Team leads and their teams · functional or cross-functional groups.

Explore the experience

You can start with a focused working session. A diagnostic survey is not a prerequisite.

The Launch - New team or new leader. Agree purpose, priorities, roles and ways of working before bad habits set in.

The Regroup - After a restructure or rough patch. Acknowledge what's changed, rebuild focus and agree how to move forward.

The Cascade - A new strategy has landed. Translate it into clear team outcomes, risks, priorities, and accountabilities.

New Ground - The team needs to unlock new thinking, not just optimise what's already there.

Across teams & functions

Working Across Boundaries

Step into the pressure. See the whole system.

Immersive simulations that make familiar organisational patterns hard to ignore.

Competing priorities, power, pressure and the gaps between teams come alive. Experience the consequences, test different choices and connect the learning to how your organisation works.

Leading through complexity & uncertainty

The Organisation Workshop

Participants are flung into a chaotic, dramatic, energetic - and above all, real - organisational system. Familiar patterns quickly emerge. What causes them: the people or the conditions?

Problems addressed: Under pressure, familiar patterns take over. Leaders carry too much, middle managers get pulled in every direction, and frontline teams feel unheard and powerless.

Who it's for: Entire departments or divisions of 30-50 people · cross-level leadership groups · transformation teams.

Explore the experience

Nobody has the full picture, the ground keeps shifting and every group faces a different pressure. The debrief connects what happened in the room to how your organisation responds when things get complex and uncertain.

Core DayRecommended

Full-day flagship simulation, flat package for 30-50 participants.

+ Embedding Day

Optional second day to turn insight into changes in how people work together.

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Enterprise thinking & innovation

Friday Night at the ER

Step into the roles of departmental managers running a busy hospital through a brutal Friday night. A fast-paced tabletop simulation for 8-24 participants.

Problems addressed: Capable people optimise their own area - and collectively constrain the whole. Silos harden, established ways go unchallenged and innovation stalls.

Who it's for: Functional or cross-functional teams · leadership cohorts · groups working across organisational boundaries.

Explore the experience

Competing priorities and stretched resources become tangible - and so do the rules nobody questions. Reflection and experimentation help participants challenge their assumptions, think beyond their own department and find new ways to make the whole organisation work better.

Half-Day

One simulation round + facilitated debrief.

Full-DayRecommended

Two rounds with reflection and redesign between them + full debrief.

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Organisation

Culture in Action

Shape a culture that delivers your business strategy.

From redefining your values to making them show up in everyday work. I've helped organisations of over 30,000 people rewrite their values and turn them into behaviour playbooks.

Most start with one of the workshops below: agree the few behaviours that matter, build on what already works, help leaders model them visibly and line up the decisions, rewards and habits that make them stick.

Problems addressed: Your values promise collaboration, ownership and trust. Everyday decisions, rewards and tolerated behaviours can undermine them - slowing delivery, weakening confidence and leaving the same problems unresolved.

Who it’s for: Leadership teams and People and Culture teams bringing new or existing values to life.

Explore the workshops

Values into Action

Your values sound good - but what do they mean in practice? A facilitated working session to agree the few behaviours that matter most, using situations people recognise.

Leave with: A practical Culture Playbook with clear behaviours and everyday examples.

Lead by Example

Would people recognise your values from watching your leaders? A leadership team workshop to agree what they will visibly and consistently model - in decisions, disagreements and what they reward or tolerate.

Leave with: Individual and team commitments, with a way to review progress and hold each other accountable.

Culture Hacks

Bring team leaders and people others trust together to redesign the everyday rituals - meetings, decisions, habits - that shape how work gets done. Test them in real work, review what sticks and adapt what doesn’t.

Leave with: Practical experiments, named owners and a follow-up review.

Align the Signals

What you reward, measure and tolerate tells people what really matters. A leadership working session to identify where processes, targets and leadership practices undermine your values - and agree what needs to change.

Leave with: The key contradictions to address, practical changes and clear ownership.

Half-day or full-day workshops, depending on your needs. Each session can stand alone or work alongside the others. Interviews and focus groups can help shape the work where needed.

Want to explore? Let's talk.

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What people say after the work

I learned that culture shifts when we change the conditions around people - the structures, routines, habits, and signals that make certain behaviours easy and others hard. Stop trying to change mindsets. Start changing the setup of work.

Participant · Organisation Workshop

The session was fantastic. Very creative and engaging. Playing the game is a great way to learn - the lessons were very relevant and well linked to our jobs and the corporate structure.

Participant · Friday Night at the ER

The most practical workshop I've attended - offering learning tools that can be directly applied. It helped me see how I can better bridge the understanding between top management and frontliners.

Participant · Organisation Workshop

Dustin's sense of humour is natural - which made the workshop interesting and engaging. Positive energy and motivational throughout.

Participant · Leadership Programme

Moving it from abstract to more tangible action points - real shifts in perspective in terms of our role in shaping the culture and team experience.

Participant · Organisation Workshop