Thursday, January 13, 2005
PLAYING TO THE HEARTS OF THE JUDGES
Some of you may recall a blog I wrote months ago about how we do some dumb "team building" activities during our staff meetings at work. In the past, we've had to make collages, discussed way to improve ourselves, and tried to build something out of random crap around the office (ie paper clips, shredded paper, pens, etc.)
But this past Wednesday, we got into three groups to come up with a story including all the names of the people in your group. We wrote some insane story about me throwing a party and the crazy times everybody has trying to get there. The other group was more creative, using the names interestingly, like Margaret instead of "marguerita" or Sherif instead of "sheriff."
But the group that won and ended up winning gift cards to Target was the group that did nothing more than use their names to say what they would do to raise money for the tsunami relief efforts.
The two judges, the assistant boss and another co-worker whose wife was going to have their first baby by C-section in a few hours, but somehow hung out with us for HOURS, decided on the tsuanami group. They chose them because that group played to their hearts. My group was pretty disapponited ... but only because we hadn't thought of it first.
Some of you may recall a blog I wrote months ago about how we do some dumb "team building" activities during our staff meetings at work. In the past, we've had to make collages, discussed way to improve ourselves, and tried to build something out of random crap around the office (ie paper clips, shredded paper, pens, etc.)
But this past Wednesday, we got into three groups to come up with a story including all the names of the people in your group. We wrote some insane story about me throwing a party and the crazy times everybody has trying to get there. The other group was more creative, using the names interestingly, like Margaret instead of "marguerita" or Sherif instead of "sheriff."
But the group that won and ended up winning gift cards to Target was the group that did nothing more than use their names to say what they would do to raise money for the tsunami relief efforts.
The two judges, the assistant boss and another co-worker whose wife was going to have their first baby by C-section in a few hours, but somehow hung out with us for HOURS, decided on the tsuanami group. They chose them because that group played to their hearts. My group was pretty disapponited ... but only because we hadn't thought of it first.
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