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NIBAF

Customized

Team Building

Retreat 2022

For most of us, teamwork is an in-
tegral part of everyday life as we are
expected to be a functional part of
a performing team. In the daily part vided into indoor and outdoor ses- challenges in a fluid style facilita-
of a corporate, with the stresses sions, with Yoga, Meditation and tion.
and the deadlines, we start to func- team building games – promoting The grand finale of the retreat hap-
tion in a perfunctory way and forget healthy competition and a sense of pened around a bonfire, where eve-
to empathize with the challenges of belonging. The prime objective was ryone felt a part of the NIBAF family.
other departments. to develop unison and one voice. It It was a refreshing break which mo-
NIBAF had been planning to organ- could not have been achieved, tivated all attendees to go back to
ize an off-site Team Building retreat without first focusing on self-devel- their work place with a new verve
for almost two years which was opment and then identifying the and team spirit.
held back due to the COVID sce- success barriers to enhance self-
nario. Finally, in March, the NIBAF awareness. Collaborative team NIBAF management received posi-
team got together at Gun Club in Is- building cannot be achieved until, tive feedback on the retreat. In view
lamabad, to rethink NIBAF’s strat- all members share the challenges of the success and appreciation
egy and collaborate as a team, they face, and work together to find and team’s enthusiasm within the
while having fun, under the guid- solutions. This was achieved by di- three days of trainings, NIBAF has
ance of Zaufyshan & Haseeb T Ha- viding the 50 attendees into smaller now decided to hold such events
san of Intek Solutions (intek- groups with each team delivering a for its team regularly.
world.com). brief presentation on their work
The three-day journey began with challenges. An atmosphere of safe
Mr. Riaz Chunara and Mr. Sajjid space was created by the facilita-
kicking off the session in the gar- tors, which helped the participants
den, with refreshments and warm to relate to each other’s issues and
winter sun. All three days were di- challenges. The unique thing about
this retreat was the manner in which
it was designed
and facilitated
by expert pro-
fessionals who
constantly kept
in perspective
each individ-
ual’s learn-
ing/unlearning
needs, while
addressing or-
ganizational