Creative working methods for optimal team development at Cevora, customer story
From three sub-teams to one strong collective
At Cevora, the training fund that supports thousands of white-collar workers and organisations in Belgium with training and development, the Business Administration team plays a silent but indispensable leading role. With the Finance, Procurement and Data & Reporting subteams, they ensure every day that everything is right behind the scenes, so that the rest of the organisation can keep running smoothly like a well-oiled machine. Thanks to their work, Cevora can continue to do what it does best: make people and organisations grow.
Although cooperation within the team was already going well, at the same time they felt there was still more potential in their mutual dynamics. Because how do you get to know each other's talents even better? When is it logical to ask for help, and when can you support someone else? And how do you ensure that accessible communication becomes natural, even in a bilingual team?
With these questions as a starting point, the goal was also clear: not only to make the cooperation run smoothly, but also to make it stronger, more spontaneous and smarter. Through creative forms of work, game-based learning and creative team building, the team wanted to build a better understanding of each other, more confidence to address each other and a firmer basis for further team development.
Game-based learning as a starting point for team development
The morning started with an interactive team challenge based on game-based learning. We deliberately chose a game that reinforces what is already present in the organisation: three strong teams, each delivering quality work. The challenge was not in improving one team, but in how the collective can become even stronger when the teams join forces.
During the game, participants worked in three teams that had to achieve their own goal, while at the same time focusing on the collective result of the whole group. This creative team building immediately brought out interesting dynamics.
Who takes spontaneous leadership?
Who builds bridges between the teams?
When does confusion or miscommunication arise?
When do we dare ask for help from another team?
The playful setting created a safe space to observe behaviour, test new approaches and discover how low-key communication and collaboration can make a difference to the whole collective.
Creative work forms to make talents visible
In the second part of the workshop, we took the conversation to another layer: what talents are actually already living in this team?
We introduced the model “Talents in the Collective” as a clear framework for understanding how different roles and energies reinforce each other in a team. Not as heavy theory, but as an accessible model that helps give words to what is often implicit in collaboration.
Participants then got creative with an exercise around “your own frame”. Everyone was literally given a frame in which they could display with paint:
where their talent lies
what they are strong at
where they can support others
and where they could use help themselves
Making this visible created an open conversation about what everyone contributes to the collective. It revealed how much talent is already present in the team - and how valuable it is when people communicate easily about what they are good at as well as where they can ask for help.
The exercise then took on an added dimension. Using the frames as a starting point, the participants literally started building and painting bridges between the different talents. A beautiful symbol for what happens in strong teams: when people show their talents and know how to find each other, bridges between teams, roles and projects naturally emerge.
The result was not only a creative work, but also a tangible reminder of an important insight: the strength of a team is not only in individual talents, but in how those talents know how to find each other. 🎨
What do we take from this for our team development?
The workshop not only provided insights, but also some clear lessons for the team.
A first insight is that a test in itself says little. Models and self-tests can be interesting, but their real value lies in the conversation that develops around them. When colleagues share with each other what energises them, where their strengths lie and where they sometimes need support, much more understanding and connection is created. Participants also indicated that this approach felt much more natural and fine than classic personality tests such as MBTI or Insights, because the focus was on the conversation and not the label.
A personality test an sich, makes no sense. Although it is a powerful tool when used strategically.
In addition, the combination of theory, creative exercises and games proved particularly refreshing. By alternating between thinking, doing and creating, a dynamic emerged in which people opened up faster, got to know each other in a different way and gained new insights about their cooperation.
The playful approach ensured that the conversation about talents, cooperation and asking for help did not become heavy or theoretical, but rather just energised the group. This is precisely where the power of this team development method lies: insights are not only created by talking about them, but by experiencing them together.
Fancy getting your team moving in a different way too?
Do you and your team also want to get to know each other's talents better, strengthen low-threshold communication and discover how to ask for or offer help more quickly within projects? With our creative teambuilding and team development methods, we help teams to come to new insights in a playful but well-considered way - and to translate them immediately into practice.
Are you curious about what such a trajectory could mean for your organisation?
Please feel free to contact Mossels from Brossels. We like to think along with you about a programme tailored to your team, sector and challenges. Together, we provide an experience that connects, inspires and lingers on the shop floor.
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14 July 2026
26 June 2026
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