SCP Leadership off-site and team building
Client: SCP Infrastructure
Project: Leadership Off-site and Team Building | September 2025
What they needed: SCP has transitioned from a small independent consultancy into part of the RSK Group. While this has brought new opportunities, it’s also created cultural and structural complexity. The leadership team wanted to:
Clarify roles and expectations as part of integration.
Improve quality, performance, and efficiency for the future.
Strengthen collaboration and consistency across regional offices.
Reconnect the team and strengthen relationships.
What we delivered: Growth Space designed a two-day off-site, including two strategy and planning workshops to create clarity around future strategy and build a practical shared implementation plan. We also made time for a fun creative team chak an Apprentice-style video challenge, with cross-functional teams managing a fictional budget, creating short films on themes such as Who are SCP? or Why Work With Us?.
Result: The offsite produced clearer understanding of how roles would change, stronger cross-regional connections, and a renewed sense of pride in SCP. Participants left energised, connected, and with practical commitments to take back to their teams.
“We’ve been talking about restructuring for months without implementing anything, Now we are aligned, have clarity on what the changes mean and a practical action plan to make it happen.”
SCP Infrastructure - Leadership Off-site
The Context
SCP is a transport planning and infrastructure consultancy, acquired by RSK in 2022. The shift to a large international group brought access to new markets and growth potential, but also raised challenges, including internal alignment and the transition from small projects to large, multidisciplinary work. The business was looking at clearer definition between project managers and technical lead roles, but decisions needed to be made to align on this and plan how to implement.
The offsite was designed to address these realities: helping people connect across regions, explore evolving roles, and collaborate creatively on a shared output, reinforcing both team spirit and confidence in SCP’s future.
SCP Infrastructure - Team Building
Discovery & Design:
Ahead of the event, Growth Space conducted stakeholder interviews, an employee survey, and planning sessions to identify needs. Themes included:
A need for clarity between the project manager and technical lead roles.
Questions about SCP’s integration with RSK.
Concerns around communication, workload, and collaboration across regions.
A strong desire for an energising, inclusive event, not a “dry” away day.
The design centred on three core elements:
Clarity & Connection: A strategic workshop to explore expectations and team needs.
Collaboration & Communication: An Apprentice-style video challenge where mixed teams produced creative outputs under time pressure.
Learning & Forward Action: A wrap-up session to reflect, capture insights, and agree on commitments.
This blend ensured serious business issues were addressed while also giving space for creativity, humour, and team bonding.
Video Challenge - Team Building Activity
Delivery:
Held at Argrennan House in Scotland, RSK’s country house, the offsite brought together 25 leaders, project managers, specialists and leaders from the 5 regional offices across the UK.
Day 1: Arrivals, an outdoor activity, dinner and a pub quiz to ease people into the experience.
Day 2: A strategy workshop where participants mapped what was changing in SCP, discussed what “quality, performance, and efficiency” look like, and shared commitments to support the transition.
Day 2: The SCP Video Challenge: teams planned, scripted, and filmed short videos on themes such as “Who are SCP?” and “Why Work With Us?”. Each had a fictional £500 budget to manage, deciding whether to allocate it to props, expert coaching, or additional resources. The challenge ended with a high-energy showcase and awards ceremony.
Day 3: Reflections and action planning, to ensure that leaders had a clear map for how to implement the changes and how to communicate them to the wider business.
The insights, actions, and commitments captured during the offsite were captured and turned into a Change Management Plan with KPIs, timeframes and clear accountability. SCP leadership has committed to embedding role expectations, improving cross-office collaboration, and following through on agreed priorities
What They Learned
The offsite built both practical skills and mindset shifts. Real skills developed:
Project planning and time management.
Budgeting and resource allocation.
Presenting and storytelling.
Cross-functional collaboration.
Decision-making under pressure.
SCP - Leadership Off-site
The Impact
A plan to implement and communicate significant organisational changes that would lay the foundations for the future.
Connected to colleagues across functions, regions, and teams.
Valued, heard, and included, regardless of personality or role.
Energised, optimistic, and proud of what we do together.
Inspired by the creativity, humour, and talent in the room.
Feedback
Feedback showed a strong impact: participants described the event as fun, memorable, energising, and purposeful.
“The design was clever, creative and completely relevant to our work.”
“I now have a really clear idea of the changes to our roles and plans to improve processes and most importantly a plan and timeframe to implement it.”
“I rarely see colleagues from the other regional offices, and this was a chance to work with them and build connections that will last.”
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