Event - Teams on Track 2026

From insight to impact.We empower teams & leaders to achieve clear communication, purposeful events and effective collaboration through strategic visuals and expert facilitation.

Visuality

Greenbizz.brussels

Teams don’t get stuck because people don’t know their job. Teams get stuck when pressure goes up and the relationship side of work comes under pressure: trust becomes thinner, assumptions grow, and small frustrations turn into patterns. Sometimes this is loud and visible. More often it is quiet: avoiding topics, talking in the hallway, people holding back, decisions that don’t really land.This year, Teams on Track focuses on what happens when tensions are rising - or when tensions have already risen. Not to “fix people,” but to strengthen the team as a system: helping the team stay present, speak openly, and handle friction without losing connection.Expect practical tools, clear language, and small interventions you can use right away - whether your team wants to prevent escalation, or find its way back after things have already heated up. SPECIAL GUEST - Prof. Martin Euwema<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-c-euwema-162b475/" title="https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-c-euwema-162b475/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Martin Euwema</a> is Professor of Organizational Psychology at KU Leuven. His research and teaching focus on conflict in organizations, conflict management, mediation, leadership, and teamwork. He is active in international research networks and regularly publishes on how individuals and teams deal with tension and conflict at work.What characterizes Martin’s work is his ability to connect solid academic research with everyday organizational reality. He does not start from abstract models, but from what people in teams actually experience: pressure, change, differing expectations, and the challenge of working well together.That combination of scientific grounding and practical relevance makes him a strong intellectual anchor for Teams on Track, helping participants better understand conflict, where it comes from, and how teams can engage with it constructively.

Agenda

Doors  Open

This keynote will explore how tension and conflict show up in today’s organisations - sometimes quietly under the surface, sometimes loud and visible - and how both forms shape collaboration, decision-making, and relationships at work. Martin Euwema brings together four angles: the real impact of conflict (whether it escalates or lingers), the role of workplace habits like caution and avoidance (often familiar in our context), the way constant and accelerated change amplifies friction in teams, and what research and practice suggest about prevention, conflict handling, and mediation. Expect a clear framework and shared language to understand what’s happening when things get tense, without dramatizing conflict or brushing it aside.

Keynote - When tension calls for attention by Martin Euwema

Healthy Coffee break

We see a move towards more horizontal working structures and self-steering teams. This shift is reshaping how teams operate, collaborate, and achieve their goals. But as we move away from traditional hierarchies, new challenges and opportunities arise. What working structures do teams need to thrive in this new reality? Which competencies are essential for navigating these changes, and what skills are we still missing?

We invite you to share your experiences, whether they're success stories, creative ideas, or even mishaps.  Let's inspire one another and build a collaborative space during a fishbowl debate. 


Interactive Q&A

We offer you a healthy, sustainable and local lunch!

Lunch

Every team runs on more than tasks, roles, and deadlines. Beneath the visible work lies an invisible mesh of relationships: trust, tension, assumptions, and unspoken expectations. This relational tissue determines whether work flows smoothly or gets stuck, whether people feel safe or slowly disengage.
In this workshop, we explore why relationships are not a “soft extra” but a critical condition for effective collaboration. You’ll gain simple, concrete ways to shift attention from task-only thinking to relational awareness, and learn small interventions that help teams stay connected, even under pressure. 

Workshop - Tending the relational tissue

Most negotiations get stuck because people argue positions: what they want, what they refuse, what they think is “fair.” Underneath those positions sit the real drivers: needs, concerns, values, constraints, and hopes. When those interests remain hidden, conversations escalate, trust drops, and outcomes become win–lose or painfully slow.
In this workshop, we introduce the core principles of interest-based negotiation and practice the shift from positions to interests. You’ll learn simple questions and moves that help uncover what matters, create options, and reach agreements that work for all sides. Practical, concrete, and designed to be used immediately in everyday conversations.

Workshop - Introduction to interest-based negotiation

Tension in teams is often treated as something to solve, soften, or move past as quickly as possible.
In this short teaser workshop, we look through a regenerative lens at tension as the meeting of necessary forces that, when held with awareness, can unlock higher-quality collaboration, decisions, and outcomes.
Rather than focusing on fixing problems or adding new resources, this session introduces resourcing as a leadership practice that strengthens the team as a system — increasing its capacity to stay present with tension instead of avoiding it, and to access capabilities that already exist within the team but are often unavailable under pressure.
This workshop offers a first insight into how working with tension can open the door to higher value, clarity, and development in teams.

Workshop - Resourcing teams for higher value

In conflict, words speed up, assumptions harden, and people start talking past each other. What’s happening often becomes more complex than what anyone can hold in their head - especially under pressure. Visualization slows the conversation down and makes the dynamics visible: the different perspectives, the underlying interests, the points of tension, and the real decision that needs to be made.
In this workshop, we explore how simple visual tools can support conflict conversations without turning them into a “drawings session.” You’ll experience how mapping viewpoints, agreements, needs, and next steps can reduce confusion, lower defensiveness, and help teams move from stuck to constructive. Practical, light, and immediately applicable - even if you “can’t draw.”

Workshop - Using visualization to manage conflict

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