Leading High-Performance Teams: Accountability, Trust & Collaboration
What separates the leaders who create high-performing teams from those who lead by default instead of by design?
14 - 18 December 2026 | London
What's in store
Leading High-Performance Teams helps participants understand what leaders of strong teams do differently and how they can create the conditions for sustained performance. The course blends proven models with live practice, so participants do more than discuss theory. They learn how to create greater clarity around purpose, outcomes, roles and decision-making, build trust and psychological safety without lowering standards, coach and develop people more effectively, delegate with greater confidence and create stronger ownership and better results. The programme also shows leaders how to install simple operating rhythms that strengthen execution and keep commitments visible.
Build trust, psychological safety, and collaboration while maintaining clear standards and accountability
Strengthen coaching, feedback, delegation, and empowerment skills to foster ownership and development
Navigate conflict and encourage constructive challenge
Lead hybrid teams effectively by strengthening visibility, cohesion, communication, trust, and performance expectations

Led By David Joshua
David Joshua is a leadership adviser, facilitator and executive coach whose clients include C-suite leaders and CEOs in billion-dollar organisations. He helps leaders build stronger teams, strengthen alignment and accountability, and improve performance in complex organisations.
David has trained more than 1,000 leaders - from C-suite executives to early-career professionals - across leadership, communication and performance programmes, both in person and virtually. He is known for combining clear frameworks, live application and thoughtful challenge in a way that is engaging, commercially grounded and immediately useful.
Benefits of Attending
Analyse the behaviours and conditions you create that impact team performance
Evaluate your default conflict patterns and personal triggers to overcome them effectively
Formulate a clear team purpose, priorities, roles, and decision-making processes
Develop coaching skills through effective questioning, feedback, and development conversations
Implement stronger delegation and autonomy to empower others and foster ownership
Establish clear accountability through commitments, structured meeting rhythms, and data-driven follow-through
Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for Executives Leading Cross-Functional Teams, Directors and Heads of Function, Team Leaders and Supervisors, Department Heads and Functional Leaders, Senior Managers and Business Unit Leaders, Project and Programme Managers, Operations and Delivery Managers, and HR, OD and L&D Professionals.

