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General Electric - Building trust, accountability, transparency and one team
Client: General Electric Africa, Renewables
Category: Team Building
Date: February 2020
Team Building Package: The Bakerthon
Snapshot
The General Electric Africa HR Director wanted to bring out the values – One Team, Accountability and Transparency in a four hour indoor team building engagement.
Our Assisgnment - Build trust and pass on the department's three core values
The client asked us to create an experience for GE’s Africa Renewables business unit that would appeal to business executives who are well travelled, experienced and extreemly knowledgable. They also wanted a high pressure and competitive activity, that would bring out the need for trust and cooperation.
The Approach
We went ahead to develop and experience that would have the participants develop a “product” that communicates the values – “One Team”, “Accountability” and “Transparency.” However we also needed to showcase that high performance cannot take place without the “Speed of Trust,” and bring out the need for vulnerability based trust. This would only take place if we restricted development of the product within a strict and seemingly impossible timeline, while still maintaining high quality production of the product.
The Team Building product that we chose to deliver these outcomes was The Bakerthon. The Bakerthon is a creative team building product, where teams are provided with basic ingredients and resources to design and decorate cake. Teams must employ all aspects of cake decorating from drawing and concept design, through to cutting, stacking, shaping and most importantly layering and decorating.
Event Day
The event was held at Sankara Hotel in Westlands. As usual we started with a series of fun, competitive, energetic and get to know one another ice breakers. We then moved into dividing the participants into teams The Bakerthon activity.
Each team was equipped with the resources needed to effectively plan, design and decorate their own cake.
The activity successfuly mixed product design, client service, sales and creative problem solving to bring out the desired outcomes. The partcipants were a bit unsure (when they started) why we would be taking three to four hours, however hours later everyone had lost track of time because of how engaging and fun The Bakerthon was.
Despite bringing out the desired outcomes, it was also great to see that the participants exposed and international business leaders in their own rights were engaged from the beginning to the end of the activity.
