Should your Company promote Sports at Workplace? Why?


Developing the practice of physical activity, making sports a choice, endorsed by the CEO and employees, can be a new managerial tool with the potential to put people back at the heart of the corporate project. 


Sports teach us something about : 
1. Team spirit
2. Exchanging and sharing
3. Success
4. Common goals
5. Individual accomplishments


Sports can help make work meaningful and promote a sense of responsibility among staff. 
Because sports can convey emotion, energy, innovation, they can fit into a managerial system that cares for the professional development of each employee. 


Because sports allow one to dare, to question oneself, to analyze one’s failures and victories, they can promote recognition of courage and initiative at work, as well as the right to make mistakes. For all these reasons I wish to encourage the largest possible number of CEOs to bring sports into their companies. 



By Philippe Joffard

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