Team Coaching Program
How walnut.coach helped VisionSpring — a leading social enterprise dedicated to providing affordable eyecare — align their team around shared values, sharpen decision-making, and build deep collaboration through an immersive 2-day coaching experience.
- 2Day Program
- 5+Activities
- Values &Coaching Focus
- ICFCredentialed coaches
A Mission-Driven Team That Needed Better Tools
VisionSpring's team was deeply committed to their social mission — but like all high-performing teams, they needed sharper frameworks for decision-making, values alignment, and genuine collaboration.
Decision-Making Blind Spots
Teams were making decisions quickly and often — but unconscious biases and mental shortcuts were getting in the way of the best outcomes. The Ladder of Inference was at work, often invisibly.
Values Weren't Yet Lived
The organisation's values existed on paper but hadn't been deeply explored and owned at the team level. A values exercise was needed to make them real and personal.
Collaboration Needed Structure
Teams worked hard together but lacked shared frameworks for cooperative problem-solving, especially under pressure.
Learning Had to Be Experiential
Given VisionSpring's mission-first culture, any coaching intervention needed to feel meaningful, participative, and directly applicable — not abstract.
2-Day Immersive Coaching Experience
An intensive 2-day program blending values exploration, game-based learning, and hands-on team activities to unlock collaboration and sharper decision-making.
- Day 1Values
- Day 1Game
- Day 2Activities
- Team values exercise exploring personal and collective values
- Critical reflection on values in the context of work
- How behaviours align with deeply held values
- Making organizational values real and personal
- Building values as a foundation for collaboration
What made this work
VisionSpring needed more than a standard team workshop. We designed an experience that honored their mission while building foundational collaboration skills.
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Values Before Skills
Day 1 started with values because sustainable team behaviour grows from shared values, not rules. Making the implicit explicit created a foundation for everything that followed.
- 2
Games as Mirrors
The Mavericks game wasn't entertainment — it was a mirror. The debrief surfaced real-world patterns in how the team makes decisions, so they could improve with awareness rather than effort.
- 3
Hands-On Learning, Hands-On Impact
Day 2's practical activities simulated real team dynamics — scarcity, coordination, interdependence — giving teams a felt sense of the principles being taught.
“Day 1 changed how I see my own thinking. The Mavericks game showed me exactly where I was making assumptions I didn't even know I was making.”
What changed after the programme
Across the 2-day program, VisionSpring's team moved from intellectual understanding to embodied knowledge — and from knowing to doing.
Values That Teams Actually Own
Participants moved from knowing the organisation's values to genuinely feeling connected to them. Values became a lived reference point, not a wall poster.
Sharper, Bias-Aware Decision-Making
The Ladder of Inference debrief gave teams a shared language to call out cognitive shortcuts. Decisions became more deliberate, more inclusive, and more data-driven.
New Collaborative Frameworks
Day 2 activities gave teams practical, repeatable frameworks for working together under pressure. Broken Squares and Marble Exercise became team references for how to ask for help and share.
Stronger Team Energy & Bond
Across both days, participants found their team identity strengthened. The shared experiences created trust, humour, and a renewed sense of mutual commitment to the mission.
From first call to follow-through
Every Walnut engagement follows the same five steps, run by ICF-credentialed coaches.
- 1
Discovery
Understanding the organisation's culture, challenges and people
- 2
Custom design
Tailoring content, examples and exercises to the team
- 3
Delivery
An interactive, gamified session with real-time engagement
- 4
Commitment
Each participant leaves with one action to try straight away
- 5
Follow-through
Ongoing coaching for deeper individual growth
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Ready to build a thriving team?
Your programme starts with a conversation. Book a 30-minute call, or try the 7-minute game first.