Team Work ; The Three Monks

What is Team Work??

Working as a team...not exactly

Team work is very essential in a company for achieving a goal. So how exactly can we build a team?.Managing a team is not a simple task. Its more complicated as it deals with each and every issue regarding a particular individual in the team.If we fail to solve the issues of a person that will in turn effect the company.

Dr.Mandi sir gave us some tips as to how we can manage a particular task. First of all never EVER deal with the HR issues directly.Primarily focus on the work. For now lets take an example of Three Monks...you might wonder,what does a monk has to do with the present situation.But their attitude and egos at various points of time shows how actually a person behaves at a given a situation

The Three Monks

The picture shows that all the three monks were very happy but that's not the actual situation here. They have gone through lot of ego clashes between them and finally they were happy. The three monks are different in their own personality but that doesn't matter at all.What matters is whether he is capable to accomplish the task assigned for them. In this scenario the problem is to get the water. Of the three the first monk was the first to go to the house which is on top of the hill. Since the other two monks hasn't come he comes down the hill to get the water.

 He was so tired of getting water. After few days the second monk joined him at the house.The  first monk made him to get the water,he was reluctant to get the water so both the of them has to get the water. 

Firstly there was an imbalance of weights between them. They solved it by using a scale.

A few days passed by and now enters the third monk. Now the two monks thought of making him work instead,but he was reluctant too. Now all the three monks were reluctant to get the water.

Finally when there was fire on the house all three were very confused and got water from the lake.Then they came to know the importance of team work which helped to save themselves.

From this short video we discussed the various ways of increasing productivity of the monks in the class.Every one came out with innovative answers.