Brazilian Business Teams

In order to ensure good, collaborative team-working within Brazil or from Brazilian colleagues working in international teams, it is important that everybody has the opportunity to get to know each other well and form those all-important relationship bonds.

This might mean that it takes longer to mould a Brazilian team than it would a similar team in the USA or the UK.

Team members will be very keen to fully understand their exact role and responsibilities within the team — as well as the roles and responsibilities of all the other team members. People do not like to be seen encroaching onto somebody else’s area of responsibility. It is also seen as difficult to know if you have done a good job if your role is ill-defined.

Each team member will expect to see a chain of command within the team (as befits a hierarchical culture) and if no such chain of command exists, the team leader can expect that every small problem will be brought to them directly — it is difficult to get inter-team communication on such matters.

Author

This country-specific business culture profile was written by Keith Warburton who is the founder of the cultural awareness training consultancy Global Business Culture. 

Global Business culture is a leading training provider in the fields of cross-cultural communication and global virtual team working.  We provide training to global corporations in live classroom-based formats, through webinars and also through our cultural awareness digital learning hub, Global Business Compass.

This World Business Culture profile is designed as an introduction to business culture in Brazil only and a more detailed understanding needs a more in-depth exploration which we can provide through our training and consultancy services.