The IGTC – Chennai’s maiden Outbound Educational Tour to Kodaikanal, was filled with great learning for our 2009-2011 batch of students. The duration of the program was for six days which was based on in-house class room trainings, workshop sessions, motivational videos (e.g.Pursuit of Happiness), outbound management games & sports activities, and CSR activities.

Sociability is a pertinent required characteristic for any management student. This was inculcated in our students during this trip, by allowing them to gather adequate information from general public, farmers, shop owners, tourists & travellers, small enterprises and then they were required to give presentations based on the collected information. The pertinent up-to-date management topics including Transactional Analysis, Evil HR, Retail Management, Distribution Management and couple of value added games were conducted to provoke the competitiveness of students.

As part of the CSR activity, our students were gracious enough to bring 12 orphanage kids and entertain them with cultural activities, without forgetting to feed them with delicious and sumptuous food at the end. The inter-collegiate meet with Kodaikanal Christian College (KCC) students was immense in terms of socializing, participating in “Paper Tower” management game along with KCC students and developing a business plan to improve the occupancy rate in a five star hotel during the off-peak season.

As a whole, this memorable trip brought great success in terms of learning, fun and sociability – not only to the students, but also to the IGTCians at Chennai.