The FANTASTILICIOUS HERE Singapore Team
Through the years of my working life, I have always been fascinated by the power of events and celebrations to pull people together. Since we spend our days working together and focusing on the business at hand, the work becomes our primary medium for interaction. As such, its character is formal, serious, important, necessary, technical, and administrative. We all accept this as part of the work climate.
When there is an organization event or celebration, however, the character changes somewhat. It gives people time to pull back, relax, celebrate what has been accomplished, and look at each other as fellow humans bound together by a common purpose.
May 4th. To ensure that all HERE Singapore employees get the opportunity to network and interact with one another, the Southeast Asia Regional Map & Content (RMC) team initiated and organized a series of teambuilding activities across Southeast Asia. First stop – Singapore!
Held in the Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Economics and Social science, the teambuilding event aimed to bring together all employees and business units from HERE Singapore for an informal day of getting-to-know-one-another better and sharing of each other’s business updates. Close to 36 HERE employees turned up for a day of sharing sessions from the various business units, group discussion led by the Human Resource team, SEA RMC quarterly award presentation (congratulations to Lian ZhenXiong!) and a mind-boggling real life room escape activity with FreeingSG. The teambuilding ended with a sumptuous dinner at Irodori Japanese restaurant which were relished by the HERE Singapore employees and enhanced an already memorable evening.
From a team building perspective, it allows for greater interaction between people separated by functional boundaries. This interaction then gives us the opportunity to see our colleagues from a different perspective, breaking down what may have been hidden barriers to open communication.
At the end of the day, I am pretty sure that everyone of us indulged in interesting conversations, picked up random pieces of knowledge and most importantly, had fun!
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