Lockdown Diaries: Meeting is all fun

As has been our usual norm during the lockdown days, I met the sales team online yesterday. The good thing was unlike other days all were more or less on time. This could have been because the meeting was postponed by 15 minutes or could be because all were genuinely interested to know more about today’s game. So after a bit of talking about how things were going and how the sales pipeline is shaping up for the quarter, we moved into the game zone.

The 11 Members were segregated in 4 teams. Each team was given a topic based on which they needed to collaborate with their team members and draw an image which best describes the topic. Each topic was something related to Brainium. Once they draw the images, each team will present it in front of the other teams and the other teams will have to predict the name of the topic without any prompting. The team whose image gets the quickest and the correct answer wins the game. So another simple but unique game, customised the Brainium way.

Sujit & Abhishek were first up with Sujit presenting the image in front of us.

No one could catch the theme. All were busy discussing about the quality of the 3 hands in the picture. Ashish commented that the screwdriver drawn belongs to Zillu. Though the comments brought up, gave us a good laugh but unfortunately no one could envisage that what Sujit wanted to show is “Brainium” (which was his topic). With Sujit’s team failing, we moved on to the next team.

Bikash asked Sarmistha to show the image to all of us without realising that Sarmistha’s video is not working. So with Sarmistha unable to present the image, they decided to have Rudra present the same. 

Since Rudra was on mobile, it was a bit difficult to get the full picture on screen but as soon as he presented it, Bias understood the concept and answered, “Services of Brainium”. It was a great catch and she got a round of applause for getting the concept so quickly.

The next team to present was Ashish and Debargha’s whom we call as Dave. Dave presented on behalf of his team.

Frankly no one understood the concept. Infact I felt the image was about some Corona Warriors but nothing looked like related to Brainium. One of our team mates told it was about Games but then Games is part of our service and that topic was already over. No body quite expectedly get the concept because the presenters themselves didn’t understood the concept unfortunately. The concept given to them was “Brainium Solutions” and when asked how this image is relatable, the ever quick witted, Ashish answered that the image depicts Zillu in fire fighting mode providing solutions to employee’s systems. It was one of the craziest answers I could have heard but then “Laughter and Fun” are the motto of our weekly meetings.

Moving on, the final presentation was given by Azhar with full confidence that their presentation will be understood the quickest and they will win the game easily.

Looking at the image, people started analysing the concept. Good thing was everyone was trying to understand and the individually they were getting it. Abhishek understood Time & Material but before that people were concentrating on point 3 and some hilarious discussion on who in the picture is being taken out from a group of people by the 2 hands. Once Abhishek realised Time & Material as Point 2, understanding Point 1 was easy (Dedicated Hiring) and then they guessed that the third point must mean FPC (Fixed Price Contract). The topic given to Azhar was “Billing Models of Brainium“. Though his first 2 points were well understood, no body could fathom the meaning of the third point and hence his over confidence of winning the game fell flat.

We all had a good laugh though and the meeting ended with congratulating Bikash’s team (Rudra, Sarmistha, Biswa & Bikash) for winning the game and a special mention to Bias for predicting the image in double quick time.

All in all another meeting, with another game with some unbridled fun & laughter.

Au Revoir!