From 24th to 25th Dec., 2018, all members of GESTER Instruments went to the Putian Jiulong Valley National Forest Park in Fujian Province for a two-day expansion training.

This expansion training aims to train the team, enhance trust, promote team communication, enhance teamwork. It also encourages everyone to take responsibility, trust each other, challenge themselves. This expansion training helped to enhance the team's desire to advance and cohesiveness, and helped to create a united, passionate, excellent business team with strength and ability.

After arriving in the Jiulong Valley, we first randomly divided into four teams (Commando team, Nine Dragons Team, Musou Team, Invincible Team), and each team elected a captain to facilitate the organization of the event. With the active participation of each team, 4 teams have successfully completed and show the design of the team name, team call and team logo within the specified time, and also have promised their own punishment once lost the game.

On the first day of the event, four teams participated in the four training programs:Take water from a limited area; Build a device with some tubes to blow the balloon;Move the tower with puzzle; Have all members cross a small window.Each team completed the training well and shared their feelings of success and failure in training. The training also helped the team to fully understand the management awareness of team trust, effective communication, rational organization, leadership, execution and teamwork.

In the "Life and Death Grid" game, there is a net made by ropes hanging between two trees, and there is only one small grid on the net. Everyone is required to go through the grid one by one, and no part of the body (including hair, clothes) can touch the net, otherwise it will cause "electric shock." As long as one person cause "electric shock", the whole team fails, and those who passed previously must return. This is a very tough and difficult game and one of the most educational projects. At first everyone was eager to try, but the facts found that individuals alone could not pass. Under the arrangement of the captain, we tried to help few members cross first. The process was very difficult, several times of the "electric shock" happened and we had to restart again and again. With effective teamwork and patience, some members had crossed the grid without “electric shock". With their help in other side of the grid, more and more members had crossed and we finally finished the game.  Although we won the game as a team, the work of every member was important and they were responsible for the results and the final performance. Mistakes in any member can lead to “electric shock” and lead the team to failure. When we were helping member crossing the grid, each one should pay attention to the actions of other members and be kindly reminded once they were making mistake. Through this activity, we realized that the details determine success or failure. The success of one man cannot represent the success of the whole team. Only the team members can work together, if we want to reach the team's goal.

In the evening, everyone had a pleasant buffet barbecue dinner and participated in a campfire. That day is the birthday to one of our members, we sang the birthday song and ate cakes to celebrated and wished him happy birthday. And the company also sent each of us a small gift for Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

On the second day of the event, everyone experienced the game of Pirates of the Dream space and the Jungle Crossing. At noon, there was a culinary competition between the four teams. After everyone had a good lunch, we took a bamboo raft to enjoy the scenery of this beautiful National Forest Park. After finishing the last game: the treasure hunt, we had successfully completed the expansion training.

The two-day expansion training has given us a new experience and feelings: the spirit of teamwork, trust and communication, mutual cooperation, and stimulating potential are subtly interpreted by these games. These tasks that seem impossible to accomplish, as long as there is enough confidence, support from partners, correct methods, and hard work, can be done as well.

As our boss always says:“Although one person can go very fast, but a group of people can go very far. Parties are where people get together while teams are where the hearts get together.” Dreamy GESTER and Happy GESTER!