I’ve been part of a small Architecture-based office since August 2018 which is opened by collective effort of my two school friends (now five) and me. It has been one of the true challenge and greatest adventure that I’ve experienced in my life. Being at a responsible position, I have had this beautiful opportunity to craft out better Office timing and work routine.
Every member in my office have different field of education, different interests and different experiences but one target which is to achieve something new, something unconventional. Irrespective of level of education, everyone have unique personality. Some are good at finishing work, some are good at communication. Some are good at doing research, some are good at learning new softwares. Some are good at standing up with their promises, Some are good at being lazy.
While working in a team, cooperation and trust are the basic pillars on which success of the team depends. To achieve this, everyone must be able to communicate and express his own thoughts freely to every member of the team. To achieve this we’ve decided to give one hour at the end of office hour where we have an interactive session. In this session, firstly we sit in a circle and speak about our day. How we’ve spent it starting from waking up. The more we discuss it in detail, more it helps us. While we speak about it, we are able to realize our own individual contribution towards self and towards team. It really helps in self-actualization. Also it creates a perfect platform to express one’s thought regarding to the other members of the team which is really important. Every feedback helps in encouragement if having great output or self-realization when not achieving best. Through this session, there is regular check for everyone, making self accountable in front of the team which ultimately builds mutual understanding and trust. After this session, we have a lecture session where one has to speak about a topic of his own choice. There is no time limit. This verbal exercise ultimately uplifts ones public speaking confidence which is very important for firm as it makes one confident enough take on any client as well as it’ll help in different scenarios of life in future. Also, sometimes there are topic related to some softwares, industries, Government schemes, trip memories and the things happening around us. Through this exercise, there is proper medium of exchange of knowledge from one person to everyone.
Alongside this verbal exercise, we often have physical exercise too. Its quite fun actually. During office hours, we have small breaks where we do push-ups, planks and other related exercises. Sometimes competition amongst team helps self in getting better. Though we still trying to cope up to do this thing everyday but sometimes we actually forget about it as to keep up our speed to finish our work.
I’ve been enjoying these sessions and been encouraging my team to follow up this exercise daily. I’ve seen the improvement in everyone from communication skills to seriousness in physical fitness. These sessions actually have positive impact on the growth of our firm. Now we are more collaborative and active in the work we do which ultimately gives me strong feeling that we can achieve more than what be believe.
PutulWasim 