Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Me, myself and Saturday the 9th…


We went on an office outing few days back to Manas Resorts, Pune. I wrote an article on it...and my boss who took the entire training session did not let me take a single pic of hers...very bad!!!


The weather was pleasant with the charismatic breeze blowing all over the water, occasionally becoming strong and gusty. I felt like being on a cruise on a river with the greenery all around fading away into her eyes.

Wake up… wake up you are in the middle of a team building session at Manas resorts. HKPPL is in the growing mode and therefore it is important for the team to realize the dynamics of teamwork and leadership.

It started with the ‘introduce your partner’ session where everyone was provided with a partner and 3 minutes to know about him or her and 1 minute to introduce that person. This was followed by some very interesting games like ‘stepping on the paper’ where it was necessary for a team to move forward and keep their foot on pieces of paper which were very difficult to hold in place.

‘Identify the picture’ again demonstrated the different perceptions scenario. The ‘animal game’ found us all doing ‘bow wow…moo moo, kaa kaa, quack quack’ to identify our team members. Well I was a horse so instead of saying anything I listened to find out that there were only two horse team members including me.

There were two blind- folded games among which one of them required to keep dumb and then how can I forget ‘passing the ball’? The aircraft crash scenario discussion saw us crashing into each other with our opinions.

But we soon settled down to get mesmerized by one of my coworkers playing ‘Zara zara behekta hai’ from ‘Rehna hai tere dil mein’ on the flute.

Soon it was time to leave and we extended our team building sessions to boat paddling and go-karting. Though I missed her presence, she had left lasting memories of a day conducted so well with perfect time management.

The importance of the day and the significance of the training session will stay deeply etched in my memories as I aspire to follow whatever I have learnt which I can pass to others. And yes I have taken a lot of pictures, but then you don’t always need a camera for it.

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