16 May Intercultural Team Building

Intercultural studies is a discipline that has been developing in the last few years and it’s now recognised and accepted as an interdiscipline that accepts and welcomes an range variety of humanities and social studies. But what does interculturality have to do with team building? Well… Everything.

Nowadays it’s unimaginable to enter an office and find people from the same race, religion or customs, and fortunately it almost never happens. The reality is that we live in an intercultural word, but we don’t always accept or notice it in some extreme cases. And that’s part of the problem. Interculturality is taking awareness in realizing the other is different by acknowledging the differences as enrichment. Another key element of this discipline is listening: being ready for what the other has to say and how this will complete my experience as a human being.

In some offices we find ourselves with 2/4, or even 3/4, of our colleagues with different cultural background and not only is it difficult to agree on an specific subject, but the variety of points of view are overwhelming and time consuming.

How can you approach the elephant in the room?

By recognising the contrats and giving them their appropriate importance and weight… Listening to different cultural perspectives can help a company reach the world and not only the small confine of a country. More importantly, reaching the world using the same cultural language will make it seem as if it were at the point of your fingertips, instead of something afar and foreign.

Learning how to do so is one of the hardest things to do and in order to break the cultural boundaries and start building a team that will go somewhere (…anywhere…), you have to learn to listen to the other.

Team building tactics are an efficient way to do so, because they combine psychological techniques with a more fun and rapid approach that allows people to work towards the same objective, amicably and creatively. It reinforces each individual and encourages her/him to integrate.

In ten years we have cultivated relationships in Italy, Spain, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and so many other countries. Our goal is to unite people and have fun. We point to the different elements of a team as a way to reach different cultures and perspectives, and, we most say, it has been an evolving process that has carried so many rewards…

What are you waiting to start being in the XXI century? Become part of the trends and not a thing of the past and wait to see how your team and your company will grow exponentially!