Ubuntu Archives - Syngrity Transformation Solutions https://www.syngrity.com/category/ubuntu/ Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:09:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Percussion Workout – The Process https://www.syngrity.com/percussion-workout-the-process/ https://www.syngrity.com/percussion-workout-the-process/#respond Thu, 07 Apr 2022 05:36:15 +0000 https://www.syngrity.com/?p=3494 Percussion Workout is a highly motivational processed experience using the energy of music and rhythm to bring together teams. It is one of the easiest ways of understanding the

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Key Takeaways Of Percussion Workout

  • Deconstructing collaboration at three levels:
    • Personal Contribution
    • Contribution within teams
    • Contribution across teams
  • Trusting the process and trusting the leader
  • Silence adds, not subtracts

 

Processes in Play During the Percussion Workout

Walk-in

The participants walk into a grand set up displaying musical instruments from across the world. The instruments they will be introduced to are the African Djembe, Brazilian Surdos, Maracas as well as Tambourines.

Observation

There are certain kinds of people who are drawn to the big Brazilian Surdo’s. They are loud instruments which attract certain behavioural traits.

Safety

The participants are instructed to remove all watches, rings etc., as it may hurt them while drumming.

Cacophony

The participants are encouraged to get used to their instrument and get acquainted with it. Usually, even with the toughest of the participant groups, there is a 2-minute cacophony. The cacophony acts like an ice breaker.

 

Introduction to The Process

Firstly, the participants are introduced to the instruments to familiarize themselves with the ways in which they are played. Secondly, the participants are introduced to the hand and voice signals which will be the key method of communication when the music comes together. The first two learnings of the Percussion Workout are reflected here:

  • Trusting the process
  • Trusting the Leader

Following the heartbeat

The notion of the Heartbeat is introduced – the most monotonous instrument. Participants vocalise the heart beat and test the hand/ vocal instructions.

Learning

  • Excellence comes out of repetition.
  • To collaborate, everyone needs to be in line, first.

The entire team starts responding to the hand and vocal instructions. The process is repeated a few times.

The first two deconstructs of teamwork are demonstrated here, by the team:

  • Personal contribution: The participants are getting their hands on the instruments and ensuring that they are in sync and playing it properly.
  • Contribution within teams: Participants start relying on their team mates to find their sync with each other.

Bringing it together

  • The master facilitator works with each of the 4 groups to share a sub rhythm.
  • Participants are given upto 15 minutes to choreograph and find their rhythms with the sub rhythm allotted to them.
  • After the break, all participants start playing their part in unison to finally reach a crescendo.
  • The third and final deconstruct of team work comes into play here:
  • Contribution across teams.

Learning

  • Participants observe how processes succeed
  • Participants feel an active and real responsibility towards the larger outcome.
  • Teams that work together, celebrate together

 

Debrief

  • The success of the Percussion Workout is in the debrief and the process questions.
  • The organizing committee and Syngrity will prepare a set of questions for which the answers are sought. The same will be discussed in the debrief.
  • The answers/ learnings to be recorded by HR.

The retention levels from the learning derived from Percussion Workout would be longer as compared to cognitive interventions as the experience is derived out of community-based learning and is rhythmically inclined. Experiential learning to the core!

Please click here to see a sample video and know more about the Percussion Workout: https://www.syngrity.com/percussion-workout/

Vikram Badhwar, CEO, Syngrity, is a communications coach, an experiential educator, and an artist trying to bridge the gap between the creative and the analytical side of our brain. He consults individuals and teams in the space of learning & development to enable transformations at a personal, professional and organizational level.

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For 20 years, Syngrity has been partnering with organisations to address leadership, communication and behaviour; using experiential methodologies; some indoor and some outdoor. Experiential education has its roots in outbound and has been successfully used to create some ground breaking “break throughs” in people, teams and organisations.

At Syngrity, we did not want to restrict ourselves only to the outdoors. For the record, we love the outdoors and realise that being in the outdoor provides an opportunity to the participant to be in unison with the senses and the five elements that are inside and outside of us. Just for this, we are taking people for an inner leadership, discussion based, trek to the Everest Base Camp this September.

Creative Sciences do the same thing. Syngrity took its knowledge of music, rhythm, sound, art, food, theatre etc and has been able to successfully implement the principles of experiential education in its processing.

Over a period of time, we realised that team – building (we get inquiries a lot about team building) is not out job. Building teams is the organisations job. What we do very well is deconstruct what teamwork means. Breaking teamwork in its basic elements of personal contribution, contribution within the team and contribution across teams, allows participants to really understand their own significance in the larger scheme of things and how each person is a pillar for the organisation.

As mentioned above, we use various creative mediums to address issues specific to a certain group. Depending on what the need of the team is, and we like to know in detail. We insist on signing NDA’s so we have access to information which is relevant to the success of the organisation and the team in question. Only after a thorough understanding of what the need is do we recommend a particular intervention. Reviewing is an integral part of any experience. And we take pride in our reviewing. The process questions that are used are very specific to bring out thoughts and answers which may not be openly addressed. The catalyst obviously is the intervention. The process questions are carefully designed with our clients and the main stake holder in the organisation. It is a process. And it is not team-building. Once the intervention is complete, and the debriefing has been done, it is the responsibility of the organisation to take the learnings back and to ensure that the participants/ teams are effectively using them. That is when team – building comes into play. That completes the cycle of learning.

To know more about our work and processes we adopt, click on www.syngrity.com

Have a look at this video where we are using rhythm to work with team work, hierarchies, processes etc.

Vikram Badhwar, CEO, Syngrity, is a communications coach, an experiential educator, and an artist trying to bridge the gap between the creative and the analytical side of our brain. He consults individuals and teams in the space of learning & development to enable transformations at a personal, professional and organizational level.

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