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Four Building Blocks for Stronger Teams

Effective teams are built on a combination of psychological safety, insight into personality, practical training, and the ability to manage both the inner and outer game of collaboration. In our team development work, we bring these four elements together to create real, lasting improvement.

We begin by establishing psychological safety — the foundation that allows people to share ideas, challenge each other, and take risks without fear of negative consequences. We then use the Five Factor Model (Big Five) to give the team a shared language for strengths, differences, and preferences, making it easier to understand one another and work together more effectively.

To ensure that insight becomes action, we use MindPlay — engaging and structured learning experiences that make communication, teamwork, and problem-solving practical and tangible in everyday work. At the same time, we work with Play Together, inspired by W. Timothy Gallwey, to help the team reduce internal noise, strengthen focus, and create more flow in how they collaborate.

Together, these four building blocks form a holistic and practical approach to team development — strengthening collaboration, performance, and overall well-being.

MindPlay

MindPlay offers structured learning experiences designed to strengthen relationships, collaboration, and communication within teams. Through engaging activities, psychological games, and practical tools, participants gain insights and skills that make a real difference in everyday work.

The exercises are suitable for all types of teams — leadership teams, project teams, and operational teams — and help build trust, improve teamwork, and create a stronger, more resilient team culture.

The Five Factor Model: A tool for Team Development

The assessment provides clear, research-based insights into each team member’s personality, preferences, and work style. This understanding makes it easier to identify what drives collaboration, communication, and performance — and what might be holding the team back.

Each participant receives an individually tailored report offering increased self-awareness and concrete development points. In addition, the team receives a comprehensive team profile that highlights collective strengths, differences, and team dynamics — and how these factors influence interaction and goal achievement.

Psychological Safety

Psychological safety is the foundation of high-performing teams. We help you build a culture where people feel safe to share ideas, ask questions, and admit mistakes — without fear of negative consequences.

When teams experience true safety, creativity, learning, and problem-solving all increase. This is supported by findings from Google’s Project Aristotle, which show that openness and trust are the strongest drivers of successful team performance.

Play Together

Play Together is a team development concept inspired by the principles of W. Timothy Gallwey. He distinguishes between the outer game — the tasks we want to accomplish — and the inner game — the stress, self-doubt, and internal criticism that often get in the way. In many cases, the inner game is the biggest barrier to performance.

Play Together helps teams quiet this internal noise and strengthen focus, presence, and natural learning. Through simple and engaging activities, teams learn to communicate more clearly, support one another, and build trust.

The result is a work environment where people play each other better — and where collaboration and performance grow hand in hand.

Team development

Four Building Blocks for Stronger Teams

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Team
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