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prestasjonsgruppe / prestasjonsteam

English translation: performance group / performance team

14:00 Mar 21, 2007
Norwegian to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management
Norwegian term or phrase: prestasjonsgruppe / prestasjonsteam
Still in a CV. Background: selection and recruitment services. "Har arbeidet med utviklingsprosjekt med ledergrupper og prestasjonsteam". Also referred to as "prestasjonsgruppe". I see this is used a lot in Norwegian - but what exactly is it? So far my research has come up with "high performance teams", a concept used in similar contexts in English.
brigidm
Norway
Local time: 19:17
English translation:performance group / performance team
Explanation:
Methinks 'high' is better left unsaid, as this is neither stated nor implied in the source.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-03-21 16:07:21 GMT)
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I'm sure you'd agree that in 'performance car', high performance is more than just implied, while in 'performance review', the possibility of substandard performance is very much open - and possibly the reason for holding such a review. Performance team falls somewhere in between - it is a team that understands its performance will be monitored or measured, while the expectation that said performance is of a high nature is at best implied. Prestasjonsteam may indeed be no more dramatic than a group of people whose salary is directly linked to their sales/work/quality performance. So, perhaps "performance" is the wrong word? How about 'yield group'? 'Achievement group? Naah, didn't think so...
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Per Bergvall
Norway
Local time: 19:17
Grading comment
I'm going for "high performance" because this phrase cropped up all the time for my context, recruitment and selection consultancy service.
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5performance group / performance team
Per Bergvall


  

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performance group / performance team


Explanation:
Methinks 'high' is better left unsaid, as this is neither stated nor implied in the source.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-03-21 16:07:21 GMT)
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I'm sure you'd agree that in 'performance car', high performance is more than just implied, while in 'performance review', the possibility of substandard performance is very much open - and possibly the reason for holding such a review. Performance team falls somewhere in between - it is a team that understands its performance will be monitored or measured, while the expectation that said performance is of a high nature is at best implied. Prestasjonsteam may indeed be no more dramatic than a group of people whose salary is directly linked to their sales/work/quality performance. So, perhaps "performance" is the wrong word? How about 'yield group'? 'Achievement group? Naah, didn't think so...

Per Bergvall
Norway
Local time: 19:17
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian
PRO pts in category: 27
Grading comment
I'm going for "high performance" because this phrase cropped up all the time for my context, recruitment and selection consultancy service.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Hmmm.. don't quite agree with that, Per. All my searches for recruitment and selection companies used "high performance", and in a way I can see why. "prestasjon" has, to my understanding, an inherent element of positiveness about it which "performance" lacks.

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