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Why Resilience Matters?

Frequently we get upset about our failures and allow them to affect our progress. Are we unfair to ourselves? Certainly, we are. What’s the most common thing we do? We dwell in our thoughts and create barriers, we knock at the closed door and wait for it to open. Why don’t we realize that the past can’t be changed, and focus on what’s coming next. We will become a better person. We often do at our workplace, when we are trying to solve a problem even if we know there is no solution. We make false commitments to ourselves, indirectly affecting our own growth.

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The US Navy SEALs, the Special Forces unit of the US Navy shot into prominence in the news with several high profile operations, the most recent of them being the killing of Osama Bin Laden in a daring cross border raid into Pakistan. The success of the mission came as no surprise to anyone who is familiar with this elite military unit, arguably the best in the world in what they do.

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Program

Pre-workshop engagement | A 14-day experience followed by a virtual team building activity

Background

With the Pandemic still in full force, employees have been required to stay confined in their homes for more than a year now. The monotony of staying at one place and not being able to meet with friends and colleagues had created an understandable strain in most peoples’ lives. While a few in-house virtual activities were planned earlier, it did little to change the mundane situation.

Objective

The objective of this 14-day pre-workshop journey was hence to:

• Break the monotony of the work from home situation

• Boost the team’s engagement

• Build team spirit and cohesiveness

Solution & Execution

The entire engagement was conceived in two parts:

1. The 14-day gamified engagement was designed to be run asynchronously through an app. This built the much needed momentum.

2. For the finale activity, a virtual escape room with multiple story lines running in parallel was proposed.

To ensure everyone got onboard, a small kick-off was executed at the start of the 14-day engagement that helped build the anticipation and excitement for the journey ahead.

Once the engagement got started, the momentum kept snowballing from Day 1. Initially hesitant to share much, the participants looked at each other as a source of inspiration and with each passing day, the votes, comments on submissions and consequent participation only increased.

There was a new challenge launched every alternate day. The challenges were curated such that it engaged the entire team with something for everyone. The challenges were curated around one basic theme – to get to know each other better.

The activity culminated with a mega event of (7 parallel storylines) virtual escape room.

With so much energy already built, the only fitting ending was with a video capturing all the fun and epic moments through this journey of 14 days plus the mega event.

Some snapshots from the app

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Impact

With 56 participants, spread over 7 teams with 16 challenges made a whopping 726 completions. The engagement was complemented by a leaderboard which kept the competition on and an activity feed which kept the engagement going.

Some tangible benefits:

• The participants were able to connect with one another at a deeper level

• They were engaged and were looking forward to each day for it held a new, unknown activity

This is what our client stakeholder from the Tech major had to say about the entire engagement:

10/10. 2 weeks of fun ! Loved it. Thank you to the whole team for making this virtual event memorable for us! It certainly rekindled our team spirit and bonding. And well done to all teams! Despite being Zilwa Confis in this covid period where Mcnuggets are scarce, you stayed as Cool as Panthers and completed all the challenges with distinction. Keep flying Sky High like Pegasus. May the Lightning Bringer spirit always keep you engaged ! We also asked the participants how they liked the engagement activities and if they would like to rate it on a scale of 1-10, and this is what some of them had to say: • Awesome, interesting and challenging.. Keep this spirit

• You made us wait for a challenge impatiently everyday

• Awesome and fun experience!

• Concept – 10 – Fantastic activity during confinement for team bonding. Engagement of FocusU – 10 Challenges – 10 App perf – 9.5 – it is marginal compare to how we enjoyed it… totally worth it

• Thank you for bringing out our craziness and raising our spirit with these challenges

• It has been a very amazing week. The challenges helped a lot and the made the difficult times a lot easier. Got into some good habits and discovered new things. Amazing Concept.

• I would say a 10/10! ‘La salle d’evasion” has brought up team engagement at its core and made us motivated each day to do something new. I feel sad that we’ve reached the end but was great fun! Thank you FocusU

• FocusU made me do thing i never thought I’d do, so for this it deserves a 10/10 Very interesting platform

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Early in 2015, Oxford toted up the word “jugaad” in its latest edition of the Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Probably because it wanted to mete out justice to the word while describing its unique quality of cranking out simple, low-cost, and innovative fixes (something that we Indians seem to excel at). This article is dedicated to the 3 best jugaad stories in India which can teach us all some invaluable lessons on how to achieve innovation!

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5 Tips for HR Managers to Improve Employee Engagement at Work

 

A study by Gallup says that 87 percent of employees worldwide are disengaged, which is not at all a good sign. We all know that employee engagement is critical for the success of any organization. “To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace,” says Doug Conant. What should HR managers do to engage employees?

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