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Team Building Concept
The Anglo-Saxon expression Team Building
designates a wide list of activities generally performed in outdoor
format with the aim to promote the team spirit and, through this path,
improve the work teams’ performance. The Team Buildings activities may
go from simple exercises to more complex simulations or even retreats
through a few days in which are made several games of group dynamics.
It’s common that people who work in the
same company, side by side, little know each other when placed before
challenges that require interaction and mutual cooperation, beyond the
habitual routine. It’s also proved that the construction of articulated
and integrated work processes goes by the deepening of the social links
and the knowledge of virtues and faults of each one. This aim is more
easily achieved in an entertaining activity outside of the company,
where prevails an informal and relaxed environment. On the other hand,
Team Building contributes to break the ice among people, decompress,
thrill and motivate, which is reflected in the productivity and attitude
in the individual and team work.
To be efficient, the Team Building
activities should have a strongly emotional content. However, must be
taken into attention that the entertaining-emotional component is only a
learning facilitator, being fundamental to guarantee the pedagogical and
professional component.
Translated from Portuguese
by Susana Saraiva, Portuguese-English and English-Portuguese translation
specialist. Contact: spams@sapo.pt.
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