Case study: You have to arrange a team building event for your department. The event will last two days and will include the following:
- Day one morning: welcoming by manager, introduction and purpose of the team building exercise, discussion on effective teamwork at the moment in the department
- Day one afternoon: physical team building activities
- Day two morning: discussion of the previous afternoon’s activities and planning of the year ahead.
- Day two afternoon: check out and return home
Do the following
- Contact a venue that does team building events and get the following details from them:
- Venues available. (2)
- Menus available. There will be two people who only eat Halaal in the group. You have to make sure that their needs are also catered for. (2)
- Make sure that you get a layout of the venue, with tables, chairs, power points and available training aids such as OHP’s, white boards, etc. (4)
- Find out what the venue will cost and how much the deposit will be. (2)
- Send a memo to the department employees (1), quoting the venue (1) and stating various dates for the event (1), requesting their feedback about the most suitable dates. (1) (4)