Alumni meeting in Barbados
Team Building
On May22, 2010, the full day of alumni activities session had been conducted. There were several games activities that aimed to enhance the capacity of alumni in conducting teamwork and dealing with the negotiation situations.
Knowing your team members: The game activities were started with the observation of team member’s responsive actions and then followed by game of setting row by their birthdays without speaking. This game needed the observing skills and finally they knew friends’ birthdays and their signs of zodiacs together with the explaining personality characteristic of each zodiac. Another game was “telling and listening your partner’s story”. In this game the alumni paired with partner to telling story of the given topics concerning their lives while their partner alumni had to listening intentionally and then responded e.g. who is their best idol, what is their most fear, how can release their stress from work, what was the most impress from the IOI meeting. The group had to circulate to see their new partners so that it allowed alumni to know more about their friends.
Knowing yourself: The psychological test was conducted by the paper test. Through this testing, the alumni discovered their personal social styles, which they were categorized into three social styles including the analytical people which have the major characteristic of logical, thorough, serious, systematic and prudent, Amiable people who have the major characteristics of supportive, cooperative, diplomatic and patient loyal and the Expressive people who have the characteristic of outgoing, enthusiastic, persuasive fun-loving and spontaneous.
Teamwork: The fourth game was the team working which the alumni separated into two groups of five. Each group formed their team work by A (leader) B (coordinator) and C D E (supporters). They all had the paper containing symbols in their hands and without talking, A had to answer what was the common symbol of all people in their team. The game allowed B to communicate by writing with A and C D E but not allowed communication among others. This game supposed to be teamwork that required the right information, organizing information, responsibility, trust, and confirmation before the decision making taking place. The negotiation game is also one more teamwork game. The two teams had to negotiate in the given topic. This game allowed them not only to learn the negotiation techniques but also to work as a team in different roles such as information support, consultation and decision making.
Apart from the productive matter that alumni have perceived from this section, it has crucially strengthened the sense of team and friendship among them.
Sampan
Heathrow Airport, London (May24, 2010)