Firm’s socio-commercial event brings team members’ skills to the fore

JEDDAH — To align with Saudi Vision 2030 announced by the Saudi government for growth and prosperity post oil era, the Machinery Division of Abdullah Hashim Co. Ltd. took the lead to enhance the entire thought process of employees working in the Kingdom and organized an informal socio-commercial event recently with a punch line ‘We Love — Our Job’ for its western region employees. A full day event with various activities kick started with welcome speech by Tariq Shamim (regional manager) followed by a football tournament, swimming, indoor and outdoor tactical games which involved lateral thinking to have the best approach in order to successfully complete each cycle within given timeframe. None of the activity details were disclosed to the employees by the organizers, which mainly included members of Machinery Division head office. After the end of each activity, every team was asked for a feedback about the activity and its objective. Kirloskar Team won the final of football tournament in a tough fight against Yanmar Team by 2-0. Yale & DP Team also scored well in other activities bringing out the best in each team member which overall boosted their team performances. One of the interesting activity included ‘Case Study’ which was made keeping the MCI regulations into consideration wherein a complicated business case was handed over to the teams. This led to brainstorming by all departments i.e. Sales, Service, Parts & Logistics to figure out a minimum of 10-lacunas which if taken care before hand by each department would not have complicated the case. Interestingly, each team pointed out more than 10-lacunas which included various out of the box problem solving approach. Shrikant Pataskar (general manager - Kirloskar Middle East) who was the chief guest of the event gave his expert opinion on the business case and read one best point from each team’s business analysis. The highlight of the event was when surprise gifts and certificates were handed out to employees of each department based on their intangible attributes which are commonly ignored in an organization. During the selection procedure, individual functional performance was not considered. Tabish Akhtar (Group dy. general manager) presided over the event and encouraged to organize such events on regular basis. Azizurrab (general manager - Machinery Division) concluded the event complimenting organizers for staging a successful event and was overwhelmed by the synergy generated across the entire unit participating in this event. He assured this would create the best working environment within team members and greater coordination within departments and will also help in self-development of individuals in areas which are mostly ignored giving the best results to the organization.