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ROCK ON! Colleagues are being helped to tune into each other, through a passion for percussion.

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London: Forget raft-building or paint balling, there is a new instrument in corporate team-building. Now colleagues are being helped to tune into each other, through a passion for percussion.

It's an exercise which helps build team spirit, for example; A team of eight IT professionals who have never played instruments before are given just 25 minutes to perform the song 500 miles by The Proclaimers, as a rock band with nothing but a handful of instruction sheets and each other.

Steve Sammut who is a team building coach, first came up with the idea of using the power of rock music to encourage better communication when he was teaching school children how to play guitar.

It's a bit like Jack Black's character in the film School of Rock. Sammut says these it's an ultimate team experience and one learns the skills that make both bands and companies successful.

"The parallels seem to be the communication, listening, sharing of ideas , and not being afraid to come forward, to be a bit stronger in the way you approach things," says Sammut.

Richard Watts is managing director of the IT company is taking part in the excersise.

"We have recognised that communication is the key and that in the same way we have had to have our separate insturments, learning to play together and work together builds better communication," says Watts.

So the word is in, communication even if it's musical is indeed the key.

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