Reflection ~ Findings and Evaluation Comments from the Business Works workshop "Team Development" for Sacramento County professionals held at the Ecology Lane site. 90 minute Workshop.
Instructor/Team Coach: Joe Tassinari
"Reflection is offered to give power to voice, promote understanding among team members and bring light to the findings from the workshops."
Findings
+ One reason each participant is a positive team member:
(self observation)
- Compassionate
- Inclusive
- Trustworthy
- Informative
- Perceptive
(click here to read what other groups said makes a positive team member)
∆ Each participant shared one improvement they'd like to make for themselves:
(viewing what their co-workers did well, each person chose something they'd like to improve)
- More perceptive
- More inclusive
- More trustworthy
- More compassionate
- More informative
• Google internal team research article mentioned during the workshop.
Evaluation Comments
What were the strengths of the course? What did you value most?
- Giving us the atmosphere to be ourselves and be honest with everyone.
- Focusing on our "team" and working with those specific qualities to create unity that's been missing. It felt safe to share. The safety to be Real.
- Having the ability to make participants willing to do the exercises and cooperate as instructed.
- Being vulnerable, recognizing how people see themselves as assets and how they perceive themselves. I valued most the opportunity to express kindness and gratitude to my peers.
How could this course be improved?
- Don't think it needs improvement. Not a bad thing done here.
- Need to have more time and follow up training to see if we can take it outside – applicably.
- N/A
- Opportunity to be critical of others in a nurturing/constructive way. I think teams often resort to these types of trainings because they have conflict bubbling within.
How will you apply what you learned?
- Review my note cards and add to other trainings. Probably follow up calls to put somethings in practice.
- Be more open and vulnerable with the team and realize they support me.
- Look at my cards and remember what others said about me & themselves.
- Be able to interact with my team knowing the valuable information about them I learned here.
Would you recommend this workshop for other Sacramento County employees? Why?
- Yes. The session is like therapy and it forces participants to remove "stuff" that can weigh us down in our daily work routines.
- Yes. Ability to skill build empathy strengthens cognition of other team members' strengths & positive attributes. Excellent opportunity for teams to recognize their membership's values.
- Most definitely. Most other departments don't value Team and focus on I.
- Yes. I think other departments could use this type of team building. There are a lot of internal conflicts within other units.
End of 4/16/2018 Reflection for Sacramento County
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