When i received the calender invite for the Skin Cascade - 3rd September 2012, i really wondered why it was scheduled from 12pm - 7 pm. The nagging question was, why would any cascade take so long?
Little did we all know we were in for a very very big and pleasant surprise. It started with completely letting go of our laptops (which i think we really need once in a while).
Once inside the learning centre, we were all asked to rechristen ourselves to whatever we pleased and why was i not surprised? Of the top of my head i remember some quirky ones like True Man, Green Lam and of course, one of my favorites - BART, among the ladies there was a Mirage, Rainbow and Spectrum, aren't we a colourful lot?
Then, to really up our energy - we were made to do the Mexican Wave, the spa treatement and the different handshakes to get all our JOSH out.
We then played the Numbers game, which had three rounds wherein we were supposed to punch the number pads in ascending order and each team mate had to punch at least one pad. Both the teams had to go through three rounds and even though the first team had an awesome strategy, team two won despite redoing each round twice. I guess, we were more agile :)
The game of blindfold to make overlapping squares was quite interesting with all of us unleashing the true "Animal" in us and quite a few of us were caught on camera "Mew-ing".
We then spent some time on giving feedback on the things that mattered to us and ideating on how we could definitely improve and an inspirational Al Pacino video of "Fighting for Inches" from the Movie - Any Given Sunday. In case anyone wants to watch it again, i am posting the link-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=530xNKy2nqs
We wrapped up singing "Nothing's gonna stop us now" and also believing in it. We are a high performace team and nothing is going to stop or change that as long as we stand by each other, shoulder to shoulder like we did initially.
Were given certificates and treated to Jhappis from our team mates ended the event on a High Note. :) :)
I would like to thank Shashank, CSN, the FOCUS team and everyone else involved in making the entire event a grand success.
A lot of the team mates were not in office yesterday and we surely missed them all.
This one day - i don't think we will forget!!!
Little did we all know we were in for a very very big and pleasant surprise. It started with completely letting go of our laptops (which i think we really need once in a while).
Once inside the learning centre, we were all asked to rechristen ourselves to whatever we pleased and why was i not surprised? Of the top of my head i remember some quirky ones like True Man, Green Lam and of course, one of my favorites - BART, among the ladies there was a Mirage, Rainbow and Spectrum, aren't we a colourful lot?
Then, to really up our energy - we were made to do the Mexican Wave, the spa treatement and the different handshakes to get all our JOSH out.
We then played the Numbers game, which had three rounds wherein we were supposed to punch the number pads in ascending order and each team mate had to punch at least one pad. Both the teams had to go through three rounds and even though the first team had an awesome strategy, team two won despite redoing each round twice. I guess, we were more agile :)
The game of blindfold to make overlapping squares was quite interesting with all of us unleashing the true "Animal" in us and quite a few of us were caught on camera "Mew-ing".
We then spent some time on giving feedback on the things that mattered to us and ideating on how we could definitely improve and an inspirational Al Pacino video of "Fighting for Inches" from the Movie - Any Given Sunday. In case anyone wants to watch it again, i am posting the link-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=530xNKy2nqs
We wrapped up singing "Nothing's gonna stop us now" and also believing in it. We are a high performace team and nothing is going to stop or change that as long as we stand by each other, shoulder to shoulder like we did initially.
Were given certificates and treated to Jhappis from our team mates ended the event on a High Note. :) :)
I would like to thank Shashank, CSN, the FOCUS team and everyone else involved in making the entire event a grand success.
A lot of the team mates were not in office yesterday and we surely missed them all.
This one day - i don't think we will forget!!!
That sounds like quite the event!! I like the idea of no laptops. During Sergio's visit he emphasized to me the importance of living a more simple life. Sometimes that means putting our technology away for awhile. The second we pick up our laptop for just "1 minute" it ends up being 10 emails...5 Google searches..10 minutes on facebook..etc.
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