Board of Directors Team Building Exercise

The Board of Directors of the PMI SCC participated in a team building exercise with two professional facilitators on Monday June 6th, 2011. The initiative was spearheaded by the chapter President, Cynthia G Hayes, who felt that the BOD must be a more cohesive and energized unit. The exercise was facilitated by Dawn Bassant and Dana Kanhai.

The objective of this initiative was to assess team effectiveness and develop pathways to sustainable improvement to meet the challenges of the PMI SCC. Dawn and Dana took us through three activities:
* Team Report Card - designed to provide a status/ snap shot of team behaviour, perceptions and challenges;
* Building a team crest - focused on team principles, core values, communication and trust and how to improve;
* Personal Responsibility Pledge - was each member's commitment to maintain the ideology that was developed during the two previous activities into the BOD’s operations.
These team activities gave birth to an action plan for addressing team challenges and specific personal commitments from each member.

The facilitators were crisp on time management yet allowed full participation in each activity. All participants enjoyed the hard work and were pleasantly surprised by the results. In the final analysis, the BOD recognized that there is work to be done and have now been provided with the necessary mindset to achieve success.

Great initiative by the President and great work by the facilitators and participants!!
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Facilitators
Dawn Bassant, Head Learning & Development, Petrotrin
Dana Kanhai, Senior HR Analyst & Clinical Psychologist, Petrotrin