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    • Saskia Gense
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Team building / Team training

Helping teams and leaders who want to grow, innovate and perform

Developing agile teams that adapt, create, and perform

Our Approach
Learning with us is active, inspiring, and never boring. Your team will work hands-on with the themes that matter most – in a way that truly works.

Our approach combines insights from positive psychology, design thinking, and action learning. That means building on what’s already working, thinking creatively in solutions, and learning by doing.

With tools such as team games, systemic constellations, and real-world business cases, we bring energy, depth, and momentum to every team session. Always safe, always spot-on.Learning with us is engaging, practical, and transforms your team from day one.From this foundation, we help teams grow in the areas that matter most today:

Embracing Change

In today’s fast-changing world, resisting change is no longer an option. We help teams see change not as a disruption, but as an opportunity for growth.
Just like getting back in shape after years of inactivity, teams and individuals need to regain their behavioral agility. When you’ve been doing the same work for a long time, habits harden, and limiting beliefs can quietly take root. We work on behavioral plasticity – the ability to flex, unlearn and re-learn – so that change becomes less threatening and more energizing.
Through interactive exercises, leadership dilemmas, and reflective sessions, team members build the mindset and confidence to handle uncertainty – and to lead others through it.
Change-readiness becomes not just a skill, but part of the team DNA.

Building Agile Mindsets

Agility is more than reacting quickly – it’s about thinking flexibly, acting with clarity, and learning continuously.
We help individuals and teams step out of rigid roles, embrace experimentation, and build shared ownership. Through real-life simulations and co-reflection, we create space for teams to stretch, shift, and succeed – even when the path isn’t linear.

Strengthening Team Skills and knowledge

With over 25 years of experience, we’ve built a rich library of training programs. But no matter how much we’ve done, every program is made fresh – fully tailored to the team in front of us.
Whether it’s collaboration, ownership, conflict management, design thinking or courageous decision-making – every skill requires a different approach.
We design learning journeys that truly land, helping teams and professionals fill their toolbox with the knowledge and capabilities that matter – for now and for what’s next.

Driving Co-Creation & Innovation

Innovation thrives where people collaborate across functions, silos, and perspectives.
We train teams in design thinking, creative problem-solving, and building real trust around new ideas. In co-creation sessions, teams learn how to listen differently, prototype quickly, and shift from abstract thinking to real-world action.
Because the best ideas don’t come from individuals – they come from teams that dare to create together.

Creating an Open Feedback Culture

Feedback is the engine of team growth – but only when it’s safe, consistent, and mutual.
We train teams in practical feedback techniques that are clear, constructive, and human. Leaders learn how to role-model feedback that builds trust and drives improvement.
We also introduce future-focused methods like feedforward, and help leaders build psychological safety into everyday team interactions – especially across cultures.
In international teams, we pay special attention to intercultural feedback styles, helping teams balance directness and sensitivity across different backgrounds.
We help create feedback cultures where differences are acknowledged, conversations are safe, and growth becomes second nature.

Connecting Cultures & Generations

Today’s teams span not only time zones but generations and cultural worlds. These differences can create friction – or become powerful sources of insight.
Using tools like DISC, MBTI, and the Culture Map, we help teams understand and talk about what makes them different – and how to use those differences for stronger collaboration.
We create spaces where curiosity replaces judgment, and where inclusion becomes more than a value – it becomes how people work together.

Quotes on workshops

Face to face training

“They have a wonderful way of opening up possibilities to challenge, test and stretch people’s abilities, whilst maintaining a fun and engaging approach to people development.”

– Oliver, New Zealand –
Online training

“In your workshop, however, everyone stayed present and focused the whole time. In my memory that was a first! Every person interacted and was a present part of the exercises, with the topics being insightful and playful at the same time. No wonder literally each of the little zoom pictures showed a smiling person during the checkout :)”

– Mona, Berlin –

More information?

If you are interested, please contact us — we’d be happy to tell you more.

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Saskia Gense
06 4096 1576
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Ardine Verhoog
06 1207 1187
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