{"id":7277,"date":"2025-06-10T08:44:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T06:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/uncategorized\/is-team-spirit-born-out-of-family-time\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T08:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T06:53:04","slug":"is-team-spirit-born-out-of-family-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/governance\/is-team-spirit-born-out-of-family-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Is team spirit born out of family time?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We talk about work-life balance in many companies, but why are team dinners at 18.30? Maybe why team-bonding happens when someone&#8217;s child falls asleep or a partner is looking forward to a little time together in the evening? <br\/><br\/>I&#8217;ve worked with several teams to do things like Christmas lunches or different breakfasts, so that team building, which is also work, still happens at the agreed working hours. Creating a sense of team is exactly the same job as, for example, customer service. <br\/><br\/>If we are a family-friendly company, we also try not to make people choose between work and private life in these situations.<br\/><br\/>I believe we need a culture where a sense of belonging does not depend on giving up one&#8217;s private life, even if it happens \u201crarely\u201d.<br\/><br\/>If you feel that it&#8217;s time to look at leadership and teamwork from a new angle &#8211; in a way that really matters to people &#8211; I&#8217;m there. That&#8217;s what I do. <br\/><br\/>Because the old ways often lead to the same results, but it&#8217;s like we&#8217;re all looking for a new smartphone and a new way of doing things. So let&#8217;s try small things \ud83d\ude42 From team dinners to team lunches or breakfasts, for example. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/tiim.jpeg\" alt=\"If we are a family-friendly company, we also try not to make people choose between work and private life in these situations.\" class=\"wp-image-7262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/tiim.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/tiim-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/tiim-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/tiim-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/tiim-650x650.jpeg 650w, https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/tiim-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/tiim-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talk about work-life balance in many companies, but why are team dinners at 18.30? Maybe why team-bonding happens when someone&#8217;s child falls asleep or a partner is looking forward to a little time together in the evening? I&#8217;ve worked with several teams to do things like Christmas lunches or different breakfasts, so that team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7278,"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions\/7278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}