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An amazingly sunny and mild February day set the scene for the Dial-a-Cab
Senior Staff Awayday, 2003. A coach had left Brunswick House early on
Saturday 22nd for those who didn't want to make their own way to the
beautiful setting of the Westerham Golf Club. The view through the coach window on arrival brought a gasp from the ladies and a "cor, that's not bad" from the men, as they viewed the early morning winter sun, set against a clear, deep blue sky and glistening against the last of the rapidly diminishing frost. A few hardy club members were already playing the 10th hole as the coach pulled up as close to the clubhouse - DaC's home for the day - as it could, to join those Staff and Board members who were already there polishing off endless rounds of coffee and toast. So what is an "Awayday" you might ask? In American parlance, it would have been known as an exercise in Corporate Bonding and is designed as an exercise to get those working for the same organisation to meet those they possibly never see and for all present to appreciate the |
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contribution other employees make, in order for DaC to fit into one - again using the American vernacular - lean, mean
fighting machine! That is achieved through a mix of speeches, team games,
lunch, dinner and the odd drinkie-poo! On this occasion, it involved
degrees of senior Staff from supervisors to managers and heads of department
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the fact that DaC is an ongoing production line and that every decision taken reverberates down that line. Make a wrong decision and the next
person down the line will have to deal with it and so on. Speaking to those who went afterwards, many told Call Sign that they hadn't been too keen on "wasting" a Saturday on the event, but by the day's end had really enjoyed it and felt that it had been a very worthwhile exercise. See centre pages for the day in pictures... Someone has to make the rules to the games! |
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