Inspire
Start with energy. Through real stories and powerful insights, we create openness and motivation for change.
Teams are the engines of organisational impact, and yet, many struggle to thrive in today’s reality. The pace of change, rising expectations and increasing complexity can turn collaboration into friction, and pressure into overload. When teams are expected to deliver results, adapt constantly and stay connected across roles and silos, traditional approaches no longer suffice.
The challenge isn’t a lack of motivation, it’s a lack of shared capacity. Many teams don’t have the tools, habits or relational safety to navigate complexity together. And too often, team development is reduced to one-off trainings that don’t touch the deeper dynamics at play.
To grow and perform sustainably, teams need the ability to:
This requires more than information. It takes shared experience, reflection and real practice, grounded in the team’s everyday reality. That’s what makes growth stick, and what makes the difference between coping and truly thriving together.
At StreetwiZe, our approach is rooted in more than 20 years of experience working with street-connected youth. Street-connected children grow up in environments defined by uncertainty, scarcity and constant change. To survive and move forward, they develop skills that closely mirror what teams need in today’s organisations.
Despite daily uncertainty, street children learn to focus on what is possible. They scan their environment for opportunities, stay alert to what matters most, and keep moving forward instead of getting stuck in what they lack.
Plans rarely survive the day on the street. Children adapt continuously, switch strategies when needed, and recover quickly after setbacks. They don’t cling to one way of working, they adjust and try again.
With limited resources, street children take initiative. They invent solutions, create value from almost nothing, and act rather than wait. Creativity is not optional, it’s a survival skill.
Many street-connected children find belonging and protection in informal gangs. Within these groups, they learn to balance personal survival with group strength, standing up for themselves while working together. They compete for limited resources, yet rely on trust and teamwork to stay safe and move forward. It’s a skill of combining drive with connection.
These skills emerge out of necessity, but they are highly relevant in modern teams facing pressure, ambiguity and rapid change.
At StreetwiZe, we use these Street Skills as a core foundation for our programmes. They are translated into concrete team behaviours and embedded throughout our journeys, supported by tailored workshops and guided by our 6-step framework. This ensures that teams don’t just recognise these skills — they actively develop and apply them in their own reality.
We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all. Every team has its own story, its history, pressure points, ambitions and potential. That’s why we always start with your reality, and co-create a journey that fits.
Each programme is built on the four Street Skills, brought to life through a series of tailored workshops. These aren’t standalone sessions, they’re part of a journey that helps teams shift habits, build trust and grow together over time.
We also don’t separate team development from leadership. In strong teams, leadership is shared: everyone takes ownership, supports others, and contributes to a common goal. Our journeys support this kind of culture: one where teams and leaders use the same language, practice the same skills, and pull in the same direction.
To shape that kind of change, we use a structured, flexible approach, the StreetwiZe 6-step framework, which we explore in the next section.
Lasting team development doesn’t start with content. It starts with clarity. What’s holding the team back? What do they really need to grow, now, and over time?
That’s why we work with the StreetwiZe 6-step framework — a structured process that helps us identify the root causes of team challenges and build a balanced journey in response.
The Street Skills are an inherent part of this framework, complemented by targeted workshops on practical team skills like feedback, storytelling, empathy and leading change, all designed to help teams translate these core capacities into daily action.
Start with energy. Through real stories and powerful insights, we create openness and motivation for change.
Understand the team’s deeper purpose and the challenges they face. Align the development journey with your organisation’s vision and goals.
Strengthen team leadership. Help members take ownership, support one another, and make decisions together.
Build a culture where people can be authentic, resilient and engaged, even under pressure.
Foster real psychological safety and collaboration. Develop communication and feedback that strengthen trust and shared ownership.
Embed new behaviours into daily practice. Make progress visible and keep teams aligned on performance and purpose.
Each journey is guided by experienced facilitators and anchored in clear learning objectives, while remaining adaptive to context and group dynamics. There is structure, but no standardisation. The journey adapts to the team, not the other way around.
StreetwiZe has worked with teams across a wide range of organisational contexts, from frontline and operational teams to cross-functional and leadership teams. While each journey is different, the ambition is always the same: helping teams develop the capacity to own their collaboration, decisions and results, even in complex and changing environments.
Empowering Factory team leaders
How can you empower blue-collar factory team leaders working in a production environment to enhance their soft skills, improve team communication, and effectively handle challenging situations, including shift handovers, while also fostering an overarching approach to strengthen team collaboration and communication?
The Factory Outreach Program for Daikin International adopts a comprehensive approach to empower blue-collar factory team leaders. This approach includes team facilitation, setting common goals, and improving team communication to strengthen overall team collaboration. Simultaneously, individual coaching occurs on the job floor, offering support in handling challenging situations, conversations, and shift handovers.
Drawing from the Mobile School outreach approach, the program ensures a continuous and unconditional presence in the factory environment, fostering individual empowerment and skill development. The ultimate goal is to equip individuals and teams to independently manage their soft skills and communication.
The program's progression involves implementing these principles in a first operational unit, with plans to extend the initiative to all the units. Over time, the aim is for HR and management to gradually assume most of the program's responsibilities, ensuring sustained success.
First line team leaders
Can you help us tailor trainings, both on content and on the best possible formats, that meet at the same time our first line team leaders’ and our management’s needs and requirements?
We conducted targeted outreach to first-line team leaders in each business unit for this specific audience. We organized co-creation workshops where we examined and compared the needs and requirements of Equans management with those of the first-line team leaders, discussing both content and format. Building upon this assessment, we held additional co-creation workshops with HR Business Partners from each business unit to prioritize initiatives and incorporate new ideas into existing programs. As a result, our training and communication offerings have been customized to effectively meet the needs of all stakeholders.
All StreetwiZe profits support MobileSchool.org. Every leadership journey contributes to opportunities for street-connected children worldwide.
That connection is not symbolic. It's where our work began, and why it matters.
All profits generated by StreetwiZe are invested in MobileSchool.org to develop the talents of street children worldwide.
