Team building

I landed at Almaty this Monday 19th Nov at 5:30am, then I went to my appartment to sleep 2 hours, then at 10am I had to go to the Intercontinental (the best hotel in town) for a 3 day training with what we call the Management Team of Schneider Electric KZ, starting with a team building day.

J'ai donc atterri ce matin a Almaty a 5h30, puis je suis alle dormir a mon apparte, et a 10 heures rdv a l'Intercontinental pour 3 jours de formation avec l'equipe de direction de Schneider KZ, en commencant par une journee de 'team building'.

First we had to create costumes to the General Manager and the Logistics Manager (left and right) using loo paper. Yes, they are ridiculous, but this is part of 'team building'

Premiere epreuve, nous avons du deguiser notre directeur general et le responsable de la logistique avec du PQ. Oui, ils ont l'air un peu con, mais c'est ca le team building.

Then, we have been asked to proceed many stupid but funny trials, like prooving somebody of the team is brave, which is what I am currently doing on the above picture, knocking out one of the security guard of the Intercontinental.

S'en suivent differentes epreuves stupides et droles, comme prouver qu'un membre de l'equipe est brave, ce que je suis en train de faire, en assommant un garde de l'hotel.

Sorry, I don't remember why we had to dive into this (empty) basin.

Je ne me souviens pas pourquoi nous avons du plonger dans un bassin vide de l'hotel.

The idea of these team building day, is to take pictures of the different trials, then make a slide show to be shown to the other (laughing) team (green caps versus orange caps).

L'idee est de prendre des photos des differentes epreuves et d'en faire un diaporama a presenter a l'autre equipe (les casquettes vertes contre les oranges).

As a result, Human Resource (above with light blue anorak) + Quality + Logistics + Marketing (above with light grey suit) beat General Management + Sales (3 people) + Accounting, and Marketing won flu, that he is just out now after two days of black out, allowing him to skip the rest of the training.

C'est donc l'equipe Ressources Humaines + Qualite + Logistique + Marketing qui a battu l'equipe Direction Generale + Ventes (mais ils etaient 3) + Comptabilite, et le Directeur Marketing a aussi gagne une grippe dont il sort a peine apres deux jours au lit, du coup il a loupe la suite de la formation (c'est malin, comme disait l'autre ! ).