
Alla Ivanova
2010
We enjoy outdoor activities with our colleagues! It's nice to admit that even outside working time the same people with whom we spend eight hours of the working day are enormously amusing, delightful and smart, following all possible and crazy ideas so that time spent together is always 100% quality.
The unity of the SORAINEN team is not an accident, but the realisation of thoroughly worked out details. The decision of the firm to support the idea and implementation of team events is a vital detail for forming a unified crew.
Working relationships are tricky and sensitive. It is about a group of people who are sitting close to you and with whom you cooperate during one third of the day, on whose advice you would like to rely, but whom we can not choose ourselves. The peculiarity of work relationships is that despite how different people are, it is unavoidable to find the same language by making different compromises as we are acting with one successful aim in view.
A functional team requires trust. Trust can appear only if we know our team members well enough. Days full of duties and work don't leave us much time to get to know each other, so leisure time spent outside the working environment helps to solve this deficiency.
As SORAINEN divides personnel into teams with different practice areas, team events are especially welcome. The team event is meant for a smaller group of participants and gives the opportunity to spend more time with specific colleagues. This tugs you out of the comfort zone ensured by duties, so that colleagues suddenly appear to be just regular people with their strengths, weaknesses, hobbies, jokes and food preferences. We experience all together new and exciting things like a bike trip in an autumn storm, snowboarding and skiing full of adrenalin, exciting parachute jumps, a mud car race, a romantic yacht ride, an educational walk in the old town with the city guide, mud modelling, glass blowing, laughter therapy, cooking sushi and truffles, wine tasting, visiting team members at their homes, dancing lessons, combined golf training, horse riding, going to the theatre and movie evenings. Shared experiences unite us and help us to get to know each other. Team events increase our knowledge of our colleagues and enrich the whole picture about them. We get to know more about their thoughts, interests, family and about themselves. Knowing each other better helps us to understand the differences and builds a bridge for harmonious cooperation.
Feeling the team spirit constructs a better safe network which makes us sure that we have a strong and cosy backup – our working family.