by Tiberiu Grigore, Teambuilding Division Manager

Preface

I like stories. To listen to them and share them. To learn from them and pass on.

On Saturday, at the end of an event I had a feeling. A feeling that I wish you all and that we will talk about later.

Chapter 1 – Always together

Let’s go back a little in time, to 2010. Together with Cristi and Mihai, we were writing the first pages of a story – the Universum story.
A book with many pages, which grows every day, a story with which we grew up and continue to grow. About us, the story and all the participants in our events.
The 3 characters are always in the foreground – together at every event, each with his own role and with the feeling that we are inseparable.
There is no event that we can implement and one of us is missing. The fact that we are together gives us confidence that we can face any challenge.
Everyone has their skills, like the heroes of Harap Alb, and by collaborating we believe that anything is possible.

Chapter 2 – On my own

Time passes and more and more projects come. Still together until one day. A day in which the first 2 events appear in parallel.
And because the challenges always come as a package, if one of the events was relatively simple, the other was announced to be one of the most complex up to that point.
An event with a conference, 2 teambuilding activities in parallel – both implemented for the first time and a party at the end.

We are crazy and we are not afraid of the unknown, we take all the measures before things happen, even if they are crazy things that we have never done before and most of the time we succeed.
At the end, I had tears in my eyes – of happiness – I was responsible for those activities and they exceeded expectations.

In the evening, Cristi also arrived at the party. We celebrated the success together. I was 3 again.

Chapter 3 – The season of changes

I still remember the first edition of Internet and Mobile World. Before the event, I slept for an hour on a sofa at Romexpo.
It was the event that brought growth to the team. New colleagues came, it was a complex event, a new business that brought us together again.
Again we knew that the only way we can make things happen is to put all our efforts in the same direction.

We had many moments when the easiest thing was to give up. And yet some people gave 200% and it turned out wonderful.

After this first edition, the IMW team became a separate team with a focus in this direction. The project has grown a lot and besides it other beautiful projects such as Bucharest Technology Week which is happening soon and at which I would be happy to meet as many of those who read these lines as possible.

Chapter 4 – The story repeats itself

I was telling you at the beginning about a feeling I had last Saturday. A feeling that you cannot contain in a few lines.
That fulfillment that tells you that what you are doing is good. The feeling of fulfillment comes from so many directions that you don’t know what fills your heart more.
The fact that you have grown, the fact that those around you have grown, the contribution you have.

On Saturday, there were 3 of us again – this time 3 project managers who were implementing 3 different teambuildings at a great distance from each other.
And because, as I told you, good things always come together, other colleagues in the team were just implementing Imobiliarium – a project in its first edition, an effort that I would compare with the first edition of Internet and Mobile World. We weren’t all there anymore and there was no need to work until the morning. No one slept for an hour on a couch. And again things went beyond expectations.

Chapter 5 – The magic number

A popular saying says – if you are irreplaceable, you will never have a vacation. It is.
That’s why the best thing is to build a team that writes the story with you, where people collaborate and are aware of everyone’s role. They know how to work in a team and at the same time be independent. Each responsible for the growth and for his piece.

As you can see, the number 3 is repeated. A magic number that we find in all the stories. What are the 3 things that come to your mind when you think of your team and fill your heart with joy? And what are the other 3 that would bring a plus?

Maybe you will find the answer at one of the 3 conferences within BTW (Sales, HR, Innovation).

Or Hercules Trophy – the third major project, in chronological order after Imobiliarium and BTW which is happening this year and which we are very excited about excited.

Soon and to as many happy stories as possible,

Tibi