When people asked me what was on my schedule when we returned to work this year, I told them we were in for a week of rah-rah stuff. Okay, I was wrong. The scavenger hunt, which I was volunteered by my boss to help organize, turned out to be a really good thing. People's initial reaction Tuesday morning was somewhat negative, but once the teams opened the envelopes and actually started puzzling out the clues and searching for the markers, they had a good time. In fact, people were still talking about it at dinner Tuesday night. I received a lot of compliments on the way I wrote the clues.
The multicultural visioning day (yesterday) crammed way too much stuff into one day. However, everyone really appreciated the small groups. It was also interesting to hear an outside organization say out loud many of the things that staff have been whispering over the past year. And in such a way that upper management could hardly ignore them. There seems to be enthusiasm for continuing the visioning work.
The other really popular piece was a small bio booklet produced for the week. Everyone was asked to contribute a brief bio. Lots of interesting facts about our coworkers.
The only two real complaints were that too much stuff was crammed into the three day schedule and that it should not have been scheduled immediately after the Christmas/New Year holiday time. So many of the staff take one or both weeks off, and we still have not had time to catch up on email and address beginning of the year tasks.
All in all, it was a good start to the new year.
Peace,
Jeff
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