Brown Bag Sessions
Posted by anuj on June 2, 2007
At MangoSpring Brown Bag sessions have become a de-rigeur at our office . In these sessions we meet over some grub and one of us talks about a topic they wish to talk on. At the outset there were no volunteers for the sessions. The first session was about “He Says” “She Says” - about how men and women communicate differently at the workplace. By some quirk of stars all our teams except one are has one member of the XY chromosome and one of the XX chromosome. So there were a lot comments and laughs. What it also did was sensitize us on how to communicate more effectively and with empathy. It also left some of us like me confused:) so now every time I nod my head I catch myself thinking am I just listening or am I agreeing (the research says that men nod their heads to show they agree and women nod theirs to as a way to say go on…i am listening)
After that we haven’t missed a single Friday there have been all kinds of topics -graphology to mobile world to vedic mathematics to name a few. Whatever it is we make it a point to eat a lot and talk a lot ….
Activities like these at MangoSpring make us aware as a team of each others interests not to mention that we expand our horizons with each session. The Happiness Manager seems to be doing a neat job of keeping us Springsters a happy lot 