Is team building over 2000 years old?

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    A portrait of Plato and Aristotle

    The theories behind team building could be a much older than originally thought. In fact Plato may have been the first ever team building expert!

    Plato and Aristotle possibly talking about their recent team building event.
    Plato & Aristotle possibly talking about their team building event.

    For some years we’ve been saying “teams that play together, work together” and it seems that although team building is thought to be a comparatively new addition to business training Plato, one of the world’s most influential philosophers, had a similar view over 2000 years ago; “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation” Plato

    So we’d encourage you to make time to play with your colleagues this week, take a ball to the park, eat ice cream in the afternoon or play darts at lunchtime – whatever you think would be fun.

    We spend most of our waking lives with our colleagues so let’s enjoy it.

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