After a busy day of program planning and budgets, it was time to use our brains in another way: for reflection. Aunt Z had scheduled in a “Leadership Reflection Activity” for the night, and the three of us were interested to see what she had in store.
We were each given 10 sticky notes – 5 for each of the other two girls. The green sticky notes were for writing down the best personal attributes of the team member and the pink sticky notes were for what valuable skills that she brought to the team. The funny thing is, although we run tons of teamwork and leadership workshops for our campers, these activities are not something we often take the time to do between ourselves. Even though we’ve known each other forever and are great at working together, it was still hard trying to pinpoint these specific attributes and skills. We split up to concentrate and once we were finished, came back to post the stickies on each other’s posters. We were surprised by how striking attributes and skills for each person were rightly highlighted and how in some instances, the attributes and skills were nailed by more than one person!
Lastly, we were each given one blue sticky note. This was for us to each write down one weakness that we wanted to work on and improve. Pondering our personal weaknesses and sharing them was so valuable because we now know our own as well as each others’ goals for change, and it will be easier now to maximize our individual strengths!
Thanks Aunt Zard for putting the thought into this activity, allowing us to take time to reflect on our personal strengths and weaknesses for the best possible teamwork 🙂
