TEAMBUILDING specialist Asia Ability strives to develop the skills and performance of participants and corporations through teambuilding activities that focus on the individual’s abilities.
Each of Asia Ability’s team programmes fall under one of eight abilities – Activeability, Businessability, Createability, Exploreability, Innovateability, Interactability, Responsability and Rhythmability.
For example, under Rhythmability, teambuilding is forged on a grand musical scale. Using the infectious rhythms of samba, Asia Ability transforms a group of individuals into a giant percussion band with each person playing their part, in time and on cue.
Under Exploreability, teams have to literally explore the city to research, script, rehearse and film a five-minute long travel documentary.
As for Innovateability, Asia Ability highlighted its latest programme, Rat Trap. Inspired by the board game Mousetrap, participants are transported into an atmosphere similar to a giant toyshop. The objective is to build a series of large contraptions which, when placed in the right sequence, perform a chain reaction of events.
Asia Ability managing director, David Powell, said: “Our programmes are very popular given that they require no travel and minimal preparation from the clients which is a highly efficient use of the delegates’ time.”
Time was a challenge the company faced in organising teambuilding sessions. “It is especially so if the client wishes to transport the group to an offsite venue,” he added.
“We have to then convince clients that teambuilding does not require a beach or even an outdoor venue – but can be totally integrated within a conference or meeting agenda.”
Asia Ability, established in 1996, currently has offices in Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam, and also holds regular events in Australia, Hong Kong, China, Philippines and Indonesia.
