Influence, How and Why
Jorge Araújo – Team Work Consultores When investigating human behavior, it is essential to address the relational phenomenon of INFLUENCE. Whether at a scientific, neuroscientific, or philosophical level, in everything that concerns human beings and their relationships with each other, it has been proven that we not only INFLUENCE but are also INFLUENCED. All of […]
Attitude Makes the Difference!
A fundamental premise in sports or behavioral training lies in the acquisition of habits. Whenever we train something, our body acquires “knowledge” (body knowledge or bodily knowledge), thereby acquiring a specific habit. Habits such as walking and running, grabbing, throwing, kicking, playing instruments, using rackets, canes, etc. In acquiring these habits, we acquire abilities (skills, […]
Personal Opinion or Study of the Problem
By Jorge Araújo Former professional basketball coach Today we live in a national cult of “opinion”. Commentators proliferate, we watch a continuous debate live on our televisions, we read daily “opinion columns” in newspapers and magazines, social networks “crush” us with their impunity as to what each person thinks about the most varied subjects. […]
Benfica, Sporting, F. C. Porto, what soccer?
By Jorge Araújo Former professional basketball coach The fans’ concern or delight at the results of their soccer teams has been evident. In this sport, as in others, Benfica, Sporting and F. C. Porto are therefore a source of constant observation and analysis. That’s why fans always react enthusiastically when they are presented with so-called […]
Intelligent Teams
By Jorge Araújo Former professional basketball coach From a very early age, I was concerned with teaching and training people and teams so that, by working together, they could create a positive and effective working environment. This goal has always proved particularly difficult because there are anonymous areas of behavior in the relationships between these […]
The Importance of Behavioural Activities
By Jorge Araújo Team Work Consultores Over the 28 years we’ve been working as trainers in the behavioural field, there has been a lot of speculation about why our methodological approach is based on training (behavioural activities) and not training (knowledge approach). In other words, why we favour what we call “learning by doing” (training) […]
High Performance Teams
By Jorge Araújo Team Work Consultores What is a High Performance Team anyway? A group of people with a certain degree of specialisation who interact in the service of common objectives. This obviously entails enormous complexity, as it involves achieving high levels of collective performance among people who, in their individual professional practice, are mainly […]
Training Behaviours
TRAINING BEHAVIOURS By Jorge Araújo Former professional basketball coach I’ve been a professional basketball coach for almost 40 years. But my experience is by no means exclusive to my sporting past. Also at community level, in the family, at primary or secondary school, at university, in the club or in the training of company staff, […]
Launch of the book – The Philosophical Reflection of the Coach, by Jorge Araújo
ANNOUNCEMENT The launch of Jorge Araújo’s new book, “A Reflexão Filosófica do Treinador” (The Philosophical Reflection of the Coach), will take place on Saturday, April 5, at 11 a.m. at the Académico Futebol Clube pavilion in Porto. We would like to invite all our readers to take part in this initiative. Whatever we consciously […]
Team spirit VS. Teamwork
TEAM SPIRIT AND TEAMWORK By Jorge Araújo Team Work Consultores It’s important to clarify the differences between Team Spirit and Teamwork. A team is a group of people who interact with each other in the service of common goals. It is made up of People (not Human Resources, much less Human Capital) who interact […]