CHRYSALIS 2010 presents "Business In Technicolor"

Last week LIBA got over with its annual B School Fest CHRYSALIS, and the theme this year was "Business in Technicolor". It was the time of Lights... Camera..... and Action...... in the campus. We decided to go beyond the texts and classrooms.It is here that the learning from movies begins......
Its a classic example of management being fun and management leading to fun!

A brief on the HR Game will help you understand how we went about it. We required teams of 3. There were 3 main rounds in the game.

Round 1: The 1st round was a quiz round to test the intelligence of the participants and to churn out the cream from the lot. Quiz had 30 questions which were to be answered in 20 minutes. 6 teams qualified for the 2nd round.

Round 2:  It is here that the actual test began. Its quite easy to use HR jargon like downsizing, benchmarking etc but the test begins when one has to communicate these terms not in words but in actions. Yes! this round was DUMB CHARADES. It tested how well the participants understood, communicated and interpreted. One participant from each team was given 1 min to enact and communicate the term he/she got.

Round 3:  The 3rd round was the icing on the cake. We chose 8 movies ranging from Inglorious Bastards to My Fair Lady and selected particular scenes from the movies. Every team was supposed t choose a movie for a team sitting on its right. The answering team had 3 tasks to do:
  • Identify the theme in the scene
  • Speak on the theme for a minute. The judges mark them on communication, understanding of concept and clarity.
  • Answer a question linked to the same theme.
Eg: The theme for the scene from the movie 'Facing the Giant' was Motivation.The teams had to identify the theme, speak on it for a minute and answer the linked question "What does VIE stand for in Victor Vroom's Theory of Motivation?"

Organizing this event was a learning and fun filled experience. Special thanks to Thejas, Juliat, Deepthi and Justin. The efforts put in by the 360 Degrees team and the various game owners was commendable and helped in making CHRYSALIS 2010 a Success.

P.S : Suggest all of you watch the movie "Up in the air". An awesomely amazing movie! If you want a list of the names of movies , the scenes of which were show, mail at riadua@gmail.com .

Comments

  1. Thejas SebastianMarch 10, 2010 at 10:59 PM

    Chrysalis just rocked!!! really enjoyed it a lot! especially preparing the quiz. never knew we could learn sooo much from the movies till we sat down to make the quiz. now i see every movie from the HR angle :-P
    and as one of our Prof's said,"Movies are just a reflection of the real life. No wonder there is so much to learn from them."

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  2. JuliatMarch 11, 2010 at 11:11 PM

    let me quote Raghavan Sir here "an MBA student must watch at least one movie everyday.."

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