Tall Trees Corporate Workshop

Grow Your Life — Grow Your Team.

The Tall Trees Corporate Workshop is a transformative team development experience designed to lay foundations for communication, trust, productivity, and collaboration across every level of an organization. Using the Tall Trees Leadership Profile and our memorable Tree Type metaphors, teams gain insight into themselves, their colleagues, and the dynamics that shape their daily work.

This workshop is practical, visual, interactive, and suitable for everyone — from support staff to senior leadership — because it focuses on human behavior, leadership, and the unique and valuable contributions of each team member, not hierarchy.

At the heart of the workshop lies the Tall Trees philosophy:

“Personal growth doesn’t only change what you do; it changes how you think, how you lead, and how you inspire others.”

What Makes this Workshop Unique

A Three‑Dimensional Profile for Every Participant

Each team member receives a comprehensive Tall Trees profile that explores three dimensions:

• Work Profile — how you approach tasks, make decisions, and function under pressure
• Social Profile — how you communicate, express emotion, and handle conflict
• Life View Profile — how you grow, learn, adapt, and process change

Together, these dimensions form the participant’s Tall Trees Leadership Profile (TTLP) — a nuanced, practical view of who you are as a leader, regardless of your job title.

The Tree Language: A Memorable Way to Understand People

The workshop uses Tall Trees’ well‑known Tree Types (Rose Bush, Pine Tree, Palm Tree, and Boxwood Tree) to explain patterns of interaction and contribution in teamwork. These metaphors are simple, visual, and memorable — teams naturally begin using “tree language” in their daily communication, even before the workshop ends!

Participants discover that we don’t fit in boxes and that there are many permutations:

• The 4 Primary Tree Types
• The 6 Combination Trees
• The 4 Contra‑Trees

And most importantly:

“Differences aren’t obstacles; they are assets.”

The 6Fs of Team Growth

The workshop guides teams through Tall Trees’ powerful framework for understanding how people work, grow, and connect:

1. Fields of Greatness — the tasks and environments where each team member naturally excels
2. Frostbite — the factors that drain energy and predict burnout or quiet quitting
3. Forest Fires — communication and conflict tendencies
4. Fast Forward — practical steps toward personal and team growth
5. Forces Within — the innate strengths each person brings to any task
6. Fertilizer — the conditions each person needs to thrive

Every participant identifies and shares their top Fs, and the team learns how these differences complement and strengthen one another.

What Teams Gain from the Workshop

A Shared Vocabulary for Understanding and Collaboration

The workshop replaces judgment with insight through the Valuing Ladder, which maps the journey from Judging to Valuing.

“I understand why you are different… You may do things your way… Your uniqueness strengthens me.”

Practical, Applicable Tools

Teams learn:

• How to leverage each other’s strengths
• How to reduce stress triggers
• How to communicate more effectively
• How to defuse conflict
• How to build a culture of trust

Interactive Group Activities

Creative team exercises — including building a team mascot — encourage humor, connection, and deeper understanding. Participants discover that no-one should lead all the time. Each has a time to follow and a time to step up and lead.

“Leadership is knowing when to bend, when to stand firm, and when to dance with others.” – Hettie Brittz

The Growth Plan

Each participant has a follow-up opportunity to work through a four‑step personal Growth Plan:

1. Embrace — acknowledge and accept key aspects about you are as a leader
2. Explore — reflect on the value and application of your traits
3. Explain — communicate your traits confidently, advocating for yourself and others
4. Expand — grow toward your full potential by enlarging your sphere of leadership

This plan helps teams integrate workshop insights into their daily culture and the Fs that bring most clarity indicate which of the Corporate Follow-up Workshops would ideally come next!

Who Benefits from this Workshop?

Ideal for:

• Leadership teams
• Project teams
• Unusually diverse teams
• Support departments
• Newly formed teams
• Teams navigating change
• Teams experiencing conflict, friction, or low morale
• Organizations wanting to strengthen a culture of trust

The Impact

Companies experience:

• Reduced conflict
• Improved communication
• Higher productivity
• Stronger trust
• Increased team loyalty
• Enhanced leadership
• A culture of growth and understanding

Book the Tall Trees Corporate Workshop

If you want a team that:

• understands one another,
• complements one another,
• values one another,
• and grows together —

this workshop is the perfect starting point.

“What stops growing soon dies. What keeps growing is alive — and spreads its life beyond itself.”