Audiology Team Building Event a Great Success

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Academics and professional support staff at the School of Health Science’s Audiology Discipline participated in an interactive outdoor team building event at the Emoyeini Lodge in Camperdown, aimed at improving staff efficiency and communication.

The activities were held in accordance with the College of Health Science’s communication strategy and UKZN’s REACHT campaign.

Acting Academic Leader, Ms Seema Panday, said her team welcomed the exercise and the workshop helped stimulate and improve communication as well as increase trust and collegiality among staff.

‘While the activities may have looked like fun and games, they were designed to improve communication skills, leadership, trust, and to promote healthy relationships,’ said Panday.

Staff were divided into two teams - a Red Team and a Purple Team - with members competing in mind stimulating games such as match puzzles, riddles, jigsaw puzzles and climbing.

These activities required all the participants to showcase proper planning abilities and the formulation of good strategies. Both teams were committed and there was a high level of competition.

The exercise enabled Audiology team members to share, explore, clarify and re-define their relationships as they sought to improve some of the skills needed in the execution of their duties.

REACHt stands for Respect, Excellence, Accountability, Client Orientation, Honesty and Trust – six core values based on uBuntu which formed the basis of the team building workshop.

The workshop was facilitated by Team Attitude which provides training, development and team building.

Words by: Nombuso Dlamini