The following essay exposes a peculiar perspective on the formation and strengthening of work teamsdetailing this concept at first and later developing the advantages over the maturation of teams that generates humor seen as the ideal emotional state that must lead members of a work team to achieve the much sought personal achievement but through the scope satisfactory of your team's goals. Nowadays, the quality of human relationships has been greatly devalued, which I wish to emphasize as a key means of promoting team activity, however, this does not occur so easily since the indisposition caused by boredom in the place of work can dominate it and turn the members of a company into apathetic people who only seek to finish a workday and do not expect more of their participation in that place,Our current workers lack the courage to break social paradigms and character to form productive relationships, that is why today's labor communities have forgotten to want what they do and therefore their personal and professional growth does not transcend and become high labor ecosystems. in emotional contamination, this is why humor must be considered a vital tool for the formation of competent work teams.This is why humor must be considered a vital tool for the formation of competent work teams.This is why humor must be considered a vital tool for the formation of competent work teams.
Work teams
A team according to Katzenbach and Smith, is a "small number of people with complementary knowledge, committed to a common purpose, performance goals and a common methodology, for which they consider themselves mutually responsible."
First of all, we have to be clear that anyone who considers themselves a work team must assimilate as part of a group committed to always acting with readiness and a high human sense, since it is the skills and knowledge of all members of that group that determine the results but not the individual participation only.
Teamwork seen as a process is full of challenges for each of its members and to the extent that they manage to integrate these challenges will be satisfactory in the end. The union that is achieved by joining a team is the opportunity to acquire and learn new knowledge and skills, the different capacities that each of its members possesses are discovered and known, and this is how they solve the problems that arise, thus how to create and improve standards, within a team all members get feedback from both those who know, those who do not know and those who know more; in general everyone learns and consequently the company manages to achieve its goals without any problem.
Humor
Humor is a permanent state of mind in the individual, which in turn, in my view, can be defined as a quality that we all possess. Each one has a colored watercolor to paint their humor in the color that seems best to them, sometimes we decide to spend days in a good mood while other days we are the most hated beings on the planet because of our bad mood. My grandfather used to say that, there is no better job or trade than the one that allows you to be the kindest and most cheerful person... This makes me believe that this is how we can realize that what we do every day may or may not be summarized in happiness without precisely thinking of always obtaining excellence. This is how I understand that in life, like at work and in the family,It is not about doing what we want to be happy but about wanting what we do.
It is all a matter of attitude towards us and towards life itself, because there are those who tell us that our temperament will qualify our courage to be happy and our ability to produce more than expected, as Roger Van Dean mentions in the following argument: “ A Fun work environment is much more productive than a routine one. People who enjoy their work come up with more ideas. Fun is contagious. ” (Van Dean, Roger).
So if everyone will stop working and start learning to truly enjoy every second of their life with their family and coworkers, this planet would go out of orbit and stop being routine to become a bright star by herself.
However, this would only be possible if each of us allowed ourselves to laugh at ourselves at the same time that we learn to laugh with others and not at others, since only in this way will we be able to satisfy ourselves with enough freedom to alleviate the needs of our body. and of our mind, satisfying ourselves without leaving empty spaces that at the same time are the ones that make us dark, shy and incapable of infecting others with optimism and confidence to generate more successful groups.
Paradigms in the Work Teams
As rational beings that we presume to be, we must begin to learn a little more about animal nature and its brotherly dynamics in order to be able to understand the benefits of overcoming those limits that we have imposed throughout our lives by not allowing ourselves to break moral schemes due to the concern of social criticism.
A family of chimpanzees knows how to live together, with an active way of doing and a way of being productive, they live in groups of families on the branches of a tree, they move from one place to another during the day, some to get food for all, others to care for the most defenseless and some more to play, they act according to their needs and those of their group, sharing responsibilities without losing the essence of their ability to jump from one branch to another happy and with firm purpose of achieving the objective established for each one for the benefit of others.
I relate this to what Napier mentions in his book "Groups: theory and experience", referring to "humor in a group makes interesting and even exciting what is simply tolerable, as well as makes boring bearable, keeping the same time reality in perspective ”(Napier, Rodney W).
It is about stop doing what we have to do and start doing what we want as we want to do it. If you need to cry to find the best medicine for that pain in laughter, then cry, and if laughter is the first tear to vent that pain, then laugh all you need to calm your crying.
Formation of Work Teams free from emotional contamination
Alberto Spilzinger in his article "The use of humor in therapy" refers to the benefits that humor has on our health and according to his opinion and with the thought of Churchill, who tells us that "imagination comforts people of what they cannot be, humor consoles them of what they are ”(Churchill, Winston). But what is happening in our society nowadays when we all say that we are very busy and do not have enough time to attend to the one that nothing of ours is, when in reality, what we suppose, is that it is not at all reliable to do it because we are afraid to receive an unexpected response or a painful mockery. Why can't we think of it differently and take the risk of appreciating ourselves without waiting for negative criticism from the other,dedicating ourselves to living on the firm condition that, if something arouses in us the desire to laugh out loud, we do it without fear of anything, at the moment we want and in the way that we are most happy to do.
Let us understand that it is our value to exercise our good humor the best communication channel that we can use to know ourselves, to make ourselves known and to give others the opportunity to recognize themselves. This is how one by one we will be able to feel capable and with the same right as everyone to communicate everything we want to transmit as we need the other to listen to us and thus merge any tension in the environment in a sincere gesture of empathy.
conclusion
For these reasons and in accordance with what was cited in the article "Therapeutic humor" by Laura Rojas-Marcos, who mentions the statements of the psychologist Eduardo Jáuregui that " working with a sense of humor strengthens individual and collective motivation, stimulates innovation and optimizes internal communication ”(Eduardo Jáuregui) concluded that it is advisable to study group humor based on the sound that each individual has begun to dance, it is necessary to know the emotional abilities of the individual being to transcend from oneself to a yes for all and thus make possible the art of generating smiles from dynamism, trust, respect and good humor, which in turn will foster creativity and foster group identity. This identity being the origin of theformation of a work team free of social and emotional obstacles that could very likely encourage the results or destroy it by itself.
Bibliographic references:
1. W. Napier, Rodney, Gershenfeld, Matti K., 2008. Groups: theory and experience
4th ed. Mexico: Threshing
2. The effect of humor at work, Human resources
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www.knowledgeatwharton.com.es/article/el-efecto-del-humor-en-el-trabajo/.
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