We, at CMU (Change Management Unit) had a 1 day planning session on the 20th August at Residence Hotel. The purpose of the session was to determine CMU’s direction and planned what we are supposed to do until the year 2010, collectively as a team. Despite having only 2 days to prepare, I do say, we pull off quite a good session.The agenda set for that day was vigorous. Did I just mention vigorous? Well, at least for the mind. We managed to brainstorm and complete our destination statement, identify our key activities and outcome & developed the Strategic Linkage Model. With the amount of brainstorming we did, no wonder it was raining the whole day that day. By the way, a teeneey weeneey bit of promotion here, if anyone is interested to conduct similar sessions, please feel free to contact us.
Other than that we also had our Prouds, Sorries & Worries which was conducted by our guest facilitator, Tn. Hj. Ali. The pictures below saw us all mulling over the list posted by each CMU members, followed by some pictures of Tn. Hj. Ali in action.Well, no workshop would be complete without some energizer. And what an energizer we had. I personally could not remember having so much fun for a long time. Our game facilitator, Roobee really spunk up the sessions. The energizer creates the perfect environment to drop our guard, to build up our understanding and to increase our ability to work together as a team. Nothing is more effective in team building than the ability to laugh together.
You must be wondering what game we played. It was called the longest line. We are all supposed to use whatever we have on our body at that time to form the longest line. You could see people starts taking off their belts, shoes, practically anything. The part that I really had a good laugh was when we start to line up our credit cards. Wow, that really, really forms a very long line. Low mentioned that he produced his wife IC once when stopped by the police traffic & the police traffic said, “Ini gambar ah moi, tak pakai la”. So, once the game had ended, we were wondering if we had collected back our own card.
The picture below shows our game facilitator giving marching instructions and each of us having a blast.
Another notable area to highlight was the change in our comfort level. We started off the day on quite a serious note. As the day progress, our comfort level with each other increased. The best part was we begin to stick post it pads describing each of our friends. Here’s a few really nice one I would like to share with you all. There are also a few pictures showing some of my friends in action.
By the end of the day, we were all milked dry - I was referring to our ideas. But we finished the day feeling charged in a sense. We have another 3 days session subsequently back at the office and I believe after we have completed all our session, CMU will have a clearer direction and a better team.
The team that makes this session happen.
It's good to be among great minds.
