Thorney Island Teambuilding Day

To greatly improve my interpersonal skills I attented a trip to Thorney Island. This action packed and problem solving exercise allowed me to develop my teamwork and cooperative skills. All of the tasks presented had an immeditate problem that needed solving which created tension and frustration within the group mentality.

Leadership started to bloom within certain elements i.e strength or speed and others in other ways such as problem solving in which I found myself at my greatest. We had to stay positive and keep working our hardest for the team to achieve our potential. We had to actively listen to eachother so that we could collaborate our efforts to create a Teepee above a blackbox to lift it out of a canyon.

We all had to show good manners and be polite to the soldiers as if we didn't give respect we wouldn't get it back. I attempted to take a leading role by questioning all of our team members on they're opinion to solve the problem and it proves to be an effective method of gathering a rough idea of what needed to be done. I also attempted to boost the group morale by encouraging each member.

October 2010

Notes:

My aspirations and future occupations I want are in the Computer games development or animation. A Short term goal of mine is to get a part time job in town to earn abit of money for myself and I also want to play for Botley football club on Sundays. One of my hobbies is computer games but at the moment I don’t have enough time where I am working hard at college to play so I am trying to complete my coursework as quickly as I can so that I may play more often. I enjoy to read some times when nothing is on the TV or my brother is on the computer. I Have a computer of my own and am an Administrator as part of a team of 15 of a forum and Server on a game Called Garry’s Mod. I Have to organise lower ranked members and Moderators which are only involved with one side of the community I.E Forum or Game.

Skills and attributes (score: 1 = no skill, 5 = fully developed)

Skill	Score	Development activity	Target
Team Building	5	Thorney Island & Administration
Leadership	5	I Am one of the highest ranked Admins in our team on the Forum and have to allocate certain Admin team members to specific jobs.
Public Debate	4	I Have to Quickly solve problems between members of the community such as a argument or disagreement or manage inappropriate material posted on a thread.
Problem Solving	5	We had to solve multiple situations at thorny island using everybody in the team to work together.

New targets:

Target	By when
Get a new computer	Christmas
Gain a higher position in the community	Feb 2011
Learn how to code fluently + Animate	2011
Spend more time doing homework	When I next get homework