“The Secret Of Joy In Work Is Contained In One Word – Excellence. To Know How To Do Something Well Is To Enjoy It.”-Pearl Buck
SPJIMR,
Mumbai pioneers yet again thinking differently from its peers. In line with
SPJAIN's core values of influencing practice, institute sponsored PGPM-14 for
an offsite trip of three days at Lonavala Resort. At the end of three days, if
not our practice, everyone knows at least know one more person better than
he/she knew him back in college. Mission accomplished J. There are three real life HR lessons we have learnt
in this trip: Take some time to network, Know yourself well to understand
others better, Trust your colleagues to leverage their skills.
The beginning: It was 01:00 pm in the afternoon on a typical hot
Mumbai day, after a string of cautionary mails on do's and don'ts and ban on
alcohol we finally boarded buses. Of course, delayed by couple of hours :)
thanks to all those laggards. All the gentlemen and ladies boarded first bus.
All the dudes chose second and of course all those who are everything else
except gentlemen chose third bus. Naturally, you can predict where all fun was.
It was loud, boisterous yet it was awesome all the way. It was an opportunity
to bond with your friends. Key learning at the end of the day is that if you
try harder nothing is impossible. Who would have known you can climb ghat road
even at 10kmph :).
Day1:
We were pleasantly surprised with accommodation and hospitality at hotel. Key
theme for first day is "know yourself well before you know others
better". There was a string of tests: johari's window, behavior test,
personality type tests. You can see that people are really involved with their
emotions swaying and taking inputs from each session asking questions from
professors. It was great to see that "S" acting as natural hedge
"N"s. "E"s trying to
dominate "I"s. It was rather fun pulling each other’s leg. Key
learning is share more and receive more.
Day2:
It was Feb19 and it is when all the real action started as all the three
outbound activities (Trekking, Assault, and Treasure hunt) lined up for next
two days. Assault clearly shows that knowing what to do (strategy) is as
important if not more important than knowing how to do. Who hell thought that
picking a ball from water can be that difficult. If you don't have a strategy
all your key resources and as well as your time and energy goes waste.
Unarguably, Trekking" is the best outbound experience. It started with
people warming up with apprehensions on the destination. It is a great bonding
experience not only with others but with your inner self. The steep rock that
you have to climb just with the help of single rope tied to a twig or trust you
put on your friend while climbing down shows that you need to have faith
sometimes and people respond. Everyone did really well, it was physically
demanding but fun all the way. Sighting sunset on the way down is fitting
culmination for the outbound activities for the day. Talent night in the
evening showed glimpses of all the creativity and talent that PGPM-1114 has.
Day3:
Last day people took turns to complete their final outbound activity. Treasure
Hunt gave an opportunity to leverage other skills to achieve a common goal. Key
factor is that don't treat others in the organization as competition rather you
are working as different teams to achieve a common goal. It is good to see that
people helping each other and using creativity to perform the tasks.
Overall
it is great start for an exciting year ahead. I am sure it gets better going
forward. Happy to be part of vivacious PGPM-1114
Key
learning is: Know yourself better to understand your team better.
Manoj
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