Local Government
Strengthen leadership, team collaboration, and service delivery across your council with Strengthify’s strengths-based development programmes.
Local government teams operate at the heart of our communities — delivering essential services, responding to complex needs, and adapting to constant change. Yet with rising demand, tight resources, and growing expectations from residents and partners, maintaining momentum and morale can be a challenge.
At Strengthify, we help councils unlock the full potential of their people — enabling managers, leaders, and teams to work more effectively together, lead with confidence, and build a culture of trust and wellbeing.
Why Strengthify for Local Government?
Our practical, strengths-based approach is grounded in positive psychology and designed to meet the unique pressures and opportunities faced by local authorities across the UK.
We help people:
- Feel more confident and motivated in their roles
- Navigate change and complexity with greater ease
- Strengthen communication and collaboration across teams
- Build resilience and support staff wellbeing
- Deliver better services by focusing on what works
Whether you're leading a directorate, managing a service, or part of a cross-functional delivery team, we support you to lead with clarity, work with purpose, and thrive together.
Public Sector Employee Engagement Insights Report
Disengagement is a significant challenge for the UK public sector, costing the UK economy billions annually and undermining talent, performance, and service delivery. Issues like burnout, high turnover, and underperforming teams are not just HR concerns but critical leadership challenges. This report highlights how a strengths-based approach can effectively address these problems, fostering engagement and driving better outcomes for teams and organisations.
Based on a year-long study, the report consolidates our findings, key actions, and practical steps to shift engagement and create a sustainable culture of growth, performance, and retention. Simply click below to register for access.
Discovery Workshops
Our interactive workshops introduce you to a strengths-based way of working — unlocking potential and energising performance from day one. Participants explore their individual strengths and learn how to apply them to:
- Day-to-day work and team interactions
- Service delivery challenges
- Organisational transformation
- Collaboration with partners
These sessions are ideal for leadership teams, frontline services, and programme groups — and often used to support strategy refreshes, culture change, and joint working across departments or sectors.
Management Development Programme
Our flagship Management Development Programme (MDP) equips local government managers with the mindset, skills and tools to lead confidently and compassionately. Delivered across four modules, this strengths-based programme helps participants:
- Lead with authenticity and impact
- Build high-performing, engaged teams
- Manage people and performance with trust and clarity
- Improve confidence when handling pressure, feedback, and complexity
It’s particularly valued by managers in housing, environmental services, HR, social care, planning, customer services, and transformation roles. MDP cohorts are also a great way to build leadership consistency across your council.
Our team workshops support local authority groups to improve how they work together — by recognising and building on their collective strengths.
These tailored sessions help teams:
- Improve communication and reduce friction
- Understand and appreciate different working styles
- Strengthen team relationships and morale
- Align around shared goals and purpose
Suitable for:
- Directorate and senior leadership teams
- Cross-departmental working groups
- Programme and project delivery teams
- Health and care integration or partnership teams
These workshops are best used to embed the learning from a Discovery Workshop or Management Development Programme.
