Team Building

So today I taught 3 teambuilding classes in a row. For those of you that aren’t familiar with teambuilding what we do is we take a group and in one hour give them challenges that they have to work out together as a team.  That is essentially the basic definition of teambuilding.  Anyways, the groups I had were really difficult and they didn’t care, they didn’t want to work with each other and for 3 long hours I watched kids argue with each other and struggle. Needless to say I was drained by the end of the day.

I realized that through this I learned a lot about myself and how to adpat to certain situations. Especially with different groups of kids and just dealing with different situations that I never could have been prepared for.  But I also find myself not listening to the very things that I teach the kids.  I always tell them to stay committed to the task at hand, and it’s easy, especially after a day like this, to never want to do team building again.  Somtimes I have to refocus and realize what it is that I am doing and why I am doing it.  So right now that I think about all this I realize that I in fact don’t want to quit teambuilding. But look forward to another oppourtunity to serve others and not myself.