What happens when a group of corporate trainers, coaches and facilitators come together and sign up for the Taal Inc. Find Your Inner Rhythm Intensive Course? Answer: It’s a week full of deep-dives and discussions about how one can apply this newly learned skill with the respective groups that they already work with. This in turn gives rise to brainstorming and ideation for cool team building games and activities! Being in this field for over two decsdes it is truly very refreshing for me to experience the innovation of today’s generation of corporate trainers coming up with a range of new and unique group activities for team building. 

Of course the core concept of these activities are the same and in a way, you can’t reinvent the wheel. But, the way in which you present, execute and conduct a debrief of an activity can ALWAYS get better and more relevant with respect to the group you work with. This is the USP of corporate team building activities in Pune (or anywhere in the country for that matter) Since the customizability of this medium is so high, there’s always scope for further and further chiseling.

In this year’s train-the-trainer course we had a majority of facilitators from the corporate field. Needless to say, this gave each of our debriefs a more official / corporate feel, scope analysis and application. We explored many corporate team building ideas so that we would set ourselves apart from all the competition out there. There’s a lot of noise in the corporate drum circle market out there and to be heard and seen over and above that it would require a solid foundation which we spent a week bilding. 

We explored various office team building exercises in case we didn’t have the chance to work in a circular format. We spoke about the importance of inclusion in our facilitator linguistics and also how to share the spotlight especially since this activity is one where there’s a symbiotic relationship between the participants and the facilitator. It’s a dance more than a typical leader and follower format. 

We built a new glossary for group activities for team building as well. Here, each student would come up with, execute and add an activity to a mastersheet. This would also have documentation of what worked and what didn’t. In this way, we would learn from each other’s experience and be able to springboard off of each other. So next time any of the students would be searching for new group activities for team building, there would be a ready reckoner for the same. 

In addition to this, groups were invited to the venue to experience drum circles. The students got to immediately apply their theories and concepts in a practical way. This helped get immediate feedback of what works and what doesn’t.

I’m grateful for the opportunity to be able to work with such a group of eager students who invest time, effort, energy and money to learn and spread the joy of group drumming with various groups. Whether it’s a corporate activity or a community building session, one thing is true: drumming works. 

What’s your reason to drum?

Come. Drum. Be One. 
Varun Venkit 
Taal Inc.