Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Nizhniy Tagil conducted the first Managing Director School workshop for 14 young employees. The Complex experts designed this project for middle-level managers under 35 who could thus get the best managerial skills and qualifications in the course of an intensive training program.

For two days, the workshop participants had to learn the basics of teamwork as well as absorb the information during the mini-lectures and look at the issues connected with effective team performance. They also did special tests and exercises to determine the range of team player parts they could perform successfully and did some problem-solving tasks connected with conflict management and ‘high stress days’.

This team-building workshop was targeted at creating the kind of atmosphere that would facilitate efficient practice of corporate and interpersonal interaction, induce self-expression and reveal each participant’s potential.

The after-classroom reflection phase was an important part of the seminar as well. The personnel experts of the Complex suggested that the students write an unusual cinquain poem about the workshop. The best poems were published in the company newspaper.

The next workshop is going to take place at the beginning of 2007, reports the spokesperson for Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Nizhniy Tagil.