Bonding with Fellow (First Team Building)

I know this post has been long overdue because our Team Building event was actually last October 4-5 and now we are already on the 1st week of November. (Amazing..ness???) But I believe it is still fine (at least), as the cliché goes, "Its better late than never". We may not be able to immediately translate into words (through blogging) the things that had happened on our team building but the memories remain cherished in our hearts even as time flies by. (Emote...)

Well that’s definitely because it was our first team building. It was an anticipated and long-planned event of the Admin for JairoSolutions' employees to be able to not only enjoy each others’ company (outside office) but at the same time build an organizational development through teambuilding.

It was pursued through self-assessment and group-dynamic games that started even before the said day came. We were grouped into three by our HR officer and were given tasks to do marketing for our assigned meal (breakfast, lunch and dinner) on a limited time with money to budget. The preparation itself was a group effort already. Not to mention the planning of what food to cook, bringing of utensils and the designation of other tasks for our two-day stay at La Rouse, a place located in Talomo and exclusively reserved only for us.

Moving on, we arrived at La Rouse during lunch time. Aloha's group had to prepare the food first and while waiting, we satisfied our eyes with the beauty of the place. It was homey, nice and certainly conducive for family gatherings, outings and of course, teambuilding. Hehehehehe...Aside from that, we also relaxed a bit on our respective rooms, did some chit-chats, played tong-ets while a live music is playing in the airwaves...

And for the food, we really had a feast on them. They are all yummy! (Teewaii guys!) It was good to learn that we have great cooks here in JairoSolutions. Hmmnn.. We hope to discover more of them...

Later that day, we started our first activity. We had to share something about us and the number of what we will have to share will be based on how many nips chocolate we had eaten. (Weeee…Joie tricked us with this). Good thing that it didn’t really happen on the actual sharing because there are some things that you should keep to yourself right? And it was explained to us by Joie through the Johari’s Window.

Next to that were the games. I don’t exactly know what where the title of those but they were fun and good enough. It was fun because the whole time, I see most of us were smiling and laughing out loud (Naiimagine ko ngayon). And good enough to test us because Joie put us on a situation where we had to throw someone in the pool (Hahahahahaha…imagine that?) But Joie explained everything why he did those things. And it was such a good learning …We also had to share our insights on what had happened that day. And it felt good - the result of feeling part of something larger than yourself, of contributing something for the team and achieving its purpose. Just like understanding the mission and objectives of JairoSolutions. (Whew!)

Anyways, I honestly can’t wait for our next team building. Looking forward to learn more and experience fun at the same time! Thanks for making our first team building possible and a success!