TEAM BUILDING AS A MEAN TO CHANGE SELF-PERCEPTION OF PARTICIPANTS.

Introduction . The integration of work teams with feedback is part of the most commonly applied techniques to achieve awareness of the positive or negative influence of one’s behavior on others, as well as to get synergy, reach consensus goals and detect the management skills that should be developed by members of a team Also, to provide means to allow discerning managerial skills in need of betterment. Participants. The experimental group was composed by six executives from the Packaging Department of a world class brewery company; the control Group was formed by six executives in the Maintenance Department of the same company. All of them were male, married, with an engineering degree. The mean age was 42 years in the experimental group and 41 years in the control group. Therefore, participants in both groups were similar. Method : Interviews were applied to the staff involved. It was designed and administered a self-assessment of mentoring. Answers were scored by an independent judge. It was subsequently held a one day session of integration of work teams with each group, and asked them to answer a self-assessment questionnaire prior to the session and after it. The experimental group received feedback from peers using the Mentor model (Leal, 2012) as an anchor. Afterwards the control received the same type of intervention. Results : Based on Wilcoxon ranges test, there were observed statistically significant differences between the self-evaluations results from the control group and the self-evaluations results from the experimental group: (p=0,02 for the experimental and p=0.99 for the control group) in time 1. Then the control group received the same treatment as the experimental group in time one. Results were then statistically significant. Discussion . The feedback process during the Team Building exercises increased the self-perception and self-awareness of the participants.