Workshops
Dr Alison Edgar MBE runs six interactive workshops for teams, in person and online. We tailor every one to your team and what you’re facing, and we’re always happy to help you choose.
What WISA said
“Alison hosted a workshop at our Summit and was a fantastic asset to the event. Alison’s session was oversubscribed with standing room only.”
What happens in an Alison Edgar workshop?
Your team gets stuck in from the start. Alison builds every workshop around your business, so the exercises are about the challenges your people are actually facing. There’s plenty of small-group work and conversation, and Alison moves round the tables the whole time.
There are six to choose from: The Intrapreneur Mindset, Safe to Speak Up on psychological safety, Leading Through Change, SMASH IT!® goal-setting, Read the Room on understanding each other, and Alison Edgar’s Big Balls® on prioritising. A keynote gets a whole room thinking differently, and a workshop gives your team the time to try it for themselves, so they go back to work with new habits they’ve already practised.
The workshops
Each one is built around your team before the day, using your business and your challenges for the exercises. Just tell us what’s going on and how many people you have, and we’ll happily suggest the best fit.
The Intrapreneur Mindset
Alison’s flagship keynote, turned into a working session. Your team takes her three questions and applies them to their own roles and decisions, so they leave having practised thinking like owners.
Safe to Speak Up: Psychological Safety
Helps your team understand why good people stay quiet, and how to make it feel safe to disagree, own up to a mistake and say what they really think.
Optional extra: a teamXrays survey, so you can see where your team is before the workshop and what’s changed after.
Leading Through Change
For teams going through change, or about to. Alison helps you understand why people push back and what it’s really telling you, so you can bring the whole team along with you.
SMASH IT!® The Art of Getting What YOU Want
Goal-setting based on Alison’s Amazon international bestseller, SMASH IT!. It helps people line up their personal and work goals, so they genuinely want to hit the targets in front of them.
Read the Room
A workshop on behaviour styles for teams who need to work well together. Everyone learns their own style and how to read other people’s, which really helps break down the silos between departments.
Optional extra: Clarity4D profiles for everyone in the team.
Alison Edgar’s Big Balls®
Alison’s hands-on take on prioritising, based on the Eisenhower Matrix. Using basketballs, tennis balls and ping-pong balls, your team works out what’s important, what’s just urgent and what they can let go of.
Why teams book Alison's workshops
We want your team doing things differently the week after, so every workshop is built with that in mind.
Everyone gets involved
There’s lots of small-group work on your own business, and Alison moves round the tables the whole time, so nobody gets left out.
Practised on the day
Alison brings the behavioural psychology from her keynotes into the room, so your team tries it out together and can carry it on the next morning.
Built for your team
Every session starts with a conversation about what’s going on, so the exercises use your business and the situations your team deals with every day.
What clients say
From our first phone call through to the very well received workshops Alison ran with our Leadership Team, I found Alison and her team a pleasure to work with. Communication was clear and Alison delivered superb, highly motivational content in a relatable and actionable way. Highly recommended.
A big thank you to Alison Edgar MBE for giving us her "Why Sales and Customer Service are EXACTLY the same thing!" one-hour workshop. Kaizen Business Consultants and our core customers took huge value from the session and had a lot of fun. If you want to increase your sales and deliver better customer service then I'd highly recommend reaching out to Alison.
Tim, Kaizen Business Working with Alison and her team was a brilliant experience. When organising an event like this what you want to find is a perfect fit speaker who needs little intervention – this is Alison! She completely understood our goals and brief and had perfectly aligned content to share with the team. I was pleasantly surprised to get a detailed briefing call to review content, so she could tailor what she did on the day specifically for us – not many speakers/trainers do that. On the day itself she brought the energy we needed, it was interactive, thought-provoking and the content she covered around colour profiles and big balls appeared in most of the feedback forms we got from attendees on the day. A pleasure from start to finish. With the bonus of signed books. AMAZING. Would highly recommend it and hope to work together again soon.
Kerry, GN Hearing
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Frequently asked questions about workshops
What workshops does Alison Edgar run?
Alison runs six: The Intrapreneur Mindset, Safe to Speak Up (psychological safety), Leading Through Change, SMASH IT!® goal-setting, Read the Room and Alison Edgar’s Big Balls®. We tailor every one to your team and what you’d love them to walk away with.
What will my team actually do in a workshop?
Most of the session is your team talking and working in small groups, on exercises built around your own business, with Alison moving round the tables. Artifax said the workshops she ran with their leadership team were superb, motivational and actionable.
Can you tailor a workshop to our team?
Yes, always! Everything Alison creates is bespoke. We’d start with a chemistry call so you can talk the event through with her, then we build the content and go through it with you on a sign-off call before the day. For Shiseido’s UKI Summer Conference, that meant a two-hour keynote and workshop built around their theme of thinking big.
Does Alison Edgar run a psychological safety workshop?
Yes, it’s called Safe to Speak Up. It’s for leadership teams where people nod along in the meeting and say what they really think afterwards. Alison gets everyone asking themselves, ‘what would I say if this were my best friend?’ You can also add a teamXrays survey, so you can see where your team is before the workshop and what’s changed after.
What’s the difference between a keynote and a workshop?
A keynote is Alison on stage for under an hour, getting the whole room thinking differently. A workshop is longer and hands-on, so your team gets to practise it. Alison owns a training company, so she’s one of the few keynote speakers who can run the longer interactive sessions too, and lots of clients book both. Shiseido had an hour of keynote followed by an hour of workshop.
How many people can take part?
Anything from a leadership team of a dozen to a couple of hundred people round tables at a conference. The numbers change how we design it, so just let us know how many you’re expecting and we’ll happily build around that.
Can Alison run a workshop online?
Yes, absolutely. Alison has been running interactive sessions online for years, including for MetLife’s 500-strong women’s salesforce, and she once kept a 10,000-strong virtual audience with her from start to finish.
How much does a workshop cost?
It depends on how long it runs, how many people are in the room, how much bespoke content we’re building, and whether you add teamXrays or Clarity4D profiles. Drop us a line with what you have in mind and we’ll be happy to come back to you with a proposal.
Want to get your team in a room with Alison?
Let us know what’s going on and how many people you have, and we’d love to put something together for you.