Building the team
We recently went on a team-building event at a countryside resort. The goal was to cultivate team spirit in line with plans on converging activities of two divisions in the company, that of Development Communication and Information and Communication Technology.
My boss laid out several projects in the pipeline that leverages IT for development, with particular stress on the communications part. Among the projects were single-source publishing (or forking and retooling of content into different media: digital, print, audiovisual); research and development funding sources; and the expected outputs of several IT endeavors in the Open Academy and for PhilRice.
The plans got me all excited, of course, but my excitement was dampened a bit by the fact that I'm lagging in my targets. I still haven't found a way to connect Active Directory to LDAP for single sign-on of network services. Multihomed routing is also another headscratcher, although I'm gaining headway in my review on Cisco IOS fundamentals.
I have yet to install a single usable service on the staging server, which has been giving me problems since I put it up. Strange though it may be, it used to work when I configured it with FC1. But when I configured the network connection to the LAN, that started all the mess. I had to replace the distro to Mandrake 9.2, but as I'm not that familiar with the distro, I can't even get
Anyway: back to teambuilding. It was fun. I got to know people from DevCom, and they were pretty nice people who know their stuff, and are serious about having fun, too. The event was also an avenue for the IT people to get to know each other better. It certainly was a surprise for all of us to see potential divas and belters doing their thing (the videoke machine was maxed out in the short time we were there).
There were bits of friendly competition between the two divisions. We showed the DevCom people that we weren't pussies in Guesstures, and that we can hold our own in videoke singing, IT "geeks" that we are.
What I liked the most, though, was the culminating activity, "Hot Seat". Instead of the usual bullsession, "Hot Seat" places whoever was in it at the center of adulation and praise. Positive values were pointed out for reinforcement and improvement. In a way, too, it made everyone lighthearted on the way home.
It was a great time, back there in that countryside resort, for discoveries both new (friends, talents) and old (values, attitudes). I sincerely hope the event fulfilled its purpose.
My boss laid out several projects in the pipeline that leverages IT for development, with particular stress on the communications part. Among the projects were single-source publishing (or forking and retooling of content into different media: digital, print, audiovisual); research and development funding sources; and the expected outputs of several IT endeavors in the Open Academy and for PhilRice.
The plans got me all excited, of course, but my excitement was dampened a bit by the fact that I'm lagging in my targets. I still haven't found a way to connect Active Directory to LDAP for single sign-on of network services. Multihomed routing is also another headscratcher, although I'm gaining headway in my review on Cisco IOS fundamentals.
I have yet to install a single usable service on the staging server, which has been giving me problems since I put it up. Strange though it may be, it used to work when I configured it with FC1. But when I configured the network connection to the LAN, that started all the mess. I had to replace the distro to Mandrake 9.2, but as I'm not that familiar with the distro, I can't even get
ping to work on it. So it now runs FC2, with absolutely no connection to the world -- again, networking doesn't work!Anyway: back to teambuilding. It was fun. I got to know people from DevCom, and they were pretty nice people who know their stuff, and are serious about having fun, too. The event was also an avenue for the IT people to get to know each other better. It certainly was a surprise for all of us to see potential divas and belters doing their thing (the videoke machine was maxed out in the short time we were there).
There were bits of friendly competition between the two divisions. We showed the DevCom people that we weren't pussies in Guesstures, and that we can hold our own in videoke singing, IT "geeks" that we are.
What I liked the most, though, was the culminating activity, "Hot Seat". Instead of the usual bullsession, "Hot Seat" places whoever was in it at the center of adulation and praise. Positive values were pointed out for reinforcement and improvement. In a way, too, it made everyone lighthearted on the way home.
It was a great time, back there in that countryside resort, for discoveries both new (friends, talents) and old (values, attitudes). I sincerely hope the event fulfilled its purpose.
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