Team Building for EMRS S2/R1/2011

EMRS, Team Bonding Day

On the first week of our stopover at EMRS, there were many unfamiliar faces and team bonding day was essential to help us break out of our shell and help nurture new friendships. Prior to team bonding day, team building IC had a budget of $20 to purchase prizes which include snacks and candies to be given out to the winning teams. Logistics needed for this event include cloth, cupboards, markers and name cards.

Before we commence the game activities, everyone was given name cards to differentiate themselves for easy recognition!

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Ice Breaker Games!
2 Truths, 1 Lie

Every student had to introduce their names, and tell 2 truths, 1 lie about themselves.
Each time a person guesses a lie incorrectly, a “cross” will be marked on their name cards. Want to find out what happens to the person with the most crosses? Read more! J

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Halfway through the event, students from Yu Ying Secondary School joined us and each student was allocated to a team to participate in the activities as well.

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Next, we moved on the “Egg, Chick, Rooster, Eagle, Superman game.” Basically, it’s just like “Scissors, paper, stone”. Each time you win in “Scissors, paper, stone”, you level up. (e.g. from Egg, you develop into a Chick). However, if you lose, you downgrade to your previous level.

FORFEIT!
The remaining 10 people who remained as Eggs get to spell “Superman” with their butt! HAHA!

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Team Building Games!
The Cupboard Game

After much talking and mingling around the spacious area, we moved on to team building games which required a lot of communication, group effort and encouragement.

Each group had a piece of cupboard to shift all team mates from one end of the room to the other end using only their given cupboard. Winning team will win prizes!

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Guess who won?

                                  TEAM 3!!!

Of course, everybody is a winner so everyone gets a small prize!

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The entire day ended well and the estimated time for each game was also prompt. Team bonding day had infinitely bonded us closer as a class, and established many new friendships.

Retail Seminar 2011

With keynote speakers from successful retail specialists such as Candylicious and Epicenter, Retail Seminar 2011 ended on a high note on the 9^th November. At the end of the seminar, there was also a career fair featuring jobs opportunities from various companies like Triumph, Wing Tai, Watsons and many others.

Pre-event

The retail seminar was held to cater to the interests of our Year 1 to 3 students who intend to pursue a career in the retail industry. The event saw about 200 students. Prior to the event, EMRS assisted to consolidate the list of participants and also made calls to them to ensure that they turn up for the seminar.  Besides that, we also prepared signages to facilitate the registration process. As signages are important to the registration process, we had to create signages that are eye-catching and clear to the participants to ensure no confusion will arise.

There are also goodie bags given in the retail seminar. Goodie bags comprising of candies, hand sanitizer, tidbits, wet tissue, eye mask as well as face wash. Packing of goodie bags can be a challenge as there must be planning of allocation on who and how the goodie bags should be packed. Planning is essential to get all the goodie bags packed in an effective and efficient way. We packed a total of 349 goodie bags of which 4 of them were incomplete due to shortage of some products.  Helpers were seated in a circular position to pack the goodie bags which proved to be a faster way to complete the job. Even though packing of goodie bags sounds like an easy task, it is not at all as it tests us how to plan and organize effectively and efficiently.

During event

Actual event day begins with the setting-up of the vendors’ booths and registration counters. Some vendors came down with their exquisite and colorful posters and fixtures to display their products as well as the job opportunities they have to offer to the students.

The logistics team experienced problem in transporting the fixtures to the event venue as it is located at a different level from the fixtures room. Hence, more caution was needed when we were transporting the fixtures to the event venue.

Another problem encountered was the transporting of goodie bag. These goodie bags cannot be transported just on the trolley as it is inefficient use of space and they will fall of the trolley. Thus we need to pack them into carton boxes to transport them efficiently and safely. 

As registration was one of the key aspects of the retail seminar, the EMRS team took into consideration on the number of participants and hence decided to set up two registration counters with two staff manning each booth to ensure that the registration process is smooth and not overcrowding. EMRS also assisted with the ushering of the participants into the auditorium and the keynote speakers up on stage. At the end of the seminar, the EMRS had to stand-by at the foyer to distribute the goodie bags as well as to collect the question slips issued to the participants at the registration. These collection slips also serve as lucky draws slips thus the goodies bag ushers have to collect all the question slips promptly and ensure that the slips are passed on to the emcee on time for the lucky draw.

Post event

The entire retail seminar ended with everything in place! All the seminar participants received informative and useful tips and knowledge from our speakers. Most importantly EMRS team fostered positive future working relationship with out vendors. . EMRS has gained valuable insights from the organization of this seminar. Manpower allocation was one of the key skills that we have picked up. Knowing the where and how’s of allocating manpower made the seminar a successful one. Learning how to organize and plan out the flow of registration and goodies bag distribution was also a key skill that we have picked up.

CYBERTEC '11

Event name : CYBERTEC '11
Date : 2-4th NOV
Venue : NYP Atrium

The CYBERTEC fair was an overall sucess despite the lack of manpower.The CYBERTEC '11 was also the first mega event which we organized so everything was on a larger scale compared to the mini roadshow we previously executed.  We also had a limited time frame to plan and carry out the pre-event preparations. Here are some photos of our team working hard :

EVENT DAY 
The set up on the first day was rather hectic as no one had the expertise in organizing such an event. Things went pretty slowly as we were not mentally prepared for the practical work. This was because most of us knew about the plans mostly in theory rather than in practice. Even though we were quite confused, we managed to set up all the booths on time. The event started at 1030am.

At that point in time, there were not much crowd as most of the NYP students were in lectures or tutorials. As time passes to lunch hour, the crowd gradually increased.

For all 3 days, the crowds came in mostly during lunch hour. Students developed time management skills and teamwork when in-charge and the booth helpers took turns to go for their break.

Unlike the setting up, the setting down was much faster partly due to fact that the event was over and everyone wanted to get back to the project room for a rest. The fixtures were cleared smoothly without any problems for the first 2 days. However, on the last day, setting down was quite tedious as everything had to be cleared including the stage.thus consuming a little bit more of our time.

CONCLUSION
Each individual in our teams learnt the importance in teamwork and planning through this event. The CYBERTEC '11 fair was not only a success to EMRS but also aided in emrs students to get real life experience in the fast growing working world.