Last month we worked with KOHLER, an international company who manufacture everything you can possibly imagine to do with bathrooms. Toilets, showers, taps…you name it, including the kitchen sink! (Quite literally as they do indeed make kitchen fixtures and fittings too.) Their Product Innovation team from all over the globe booked Eastnor Pottery for an afternoon of potter’s wheel fun as a breakout activity during two days of meetings.
Back in the day when the company traded under Mira Showers, a larger group of x30 participants visited Eastnor Pottery for a combination of potter’s wheel and tile making.
A team of 30 employees from Mira Showers visited the Pottery to creatively explore ideas about how individuals operate within an organisation.
The team had spent the morning at the office working with their Insights Discovery profiles to help them better understand themselves and their colleagues to improve overall team performance.
After lunch, they made the short journey to Eastnor Pottery to interpret what they had learnt about themselves in clay.
Each participant made and painted an individual tile representing their attributes in terms of the ‘four colours’…as well as each taking a turn on the potter’s wheel.
Once the tiles have been fired and glazed, they will be hung in the Marketing department back at Company HQ, as a permanent reminder of the teambuilding event and the importance of working as a group.
The afternoon was hailed a success and this is what Marketing Director Craig Baker had to say about their Eastnor Pottery experience:
“A huge thank you for such an enjoyable day yesterday. The whole team was fully engaged and we have had some great feedback. We are all looking forward to putting our installation together”
