From CIO VietNam — Retreat day: A little bit about Teamwork vs Individual Work
Today I have a concern about what we should do in the next move. But btw I should write about what I did in the last week with my new companion-in-arms.
“When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”
Do you know about the quote above? Let’s go with it first.
For example, when someone perceives a need to become a good spouse or a good parent when the weight of responsibility falls on someone to provide a living for people who are depending upon him/her, situations in which being an effective leader is simply not an option — any number of situations can arise in life that provides the opportunity for growth. It has more to do with personal growth.
Nature fills vacuums. Until one becomes aware of his own, personal lack of wisdom, knowledge, or understanding, he may be surrounded by life’s teachers (in a metaphorical sense) but not be ready to receive what they can impart to him. A student of life is ready when he realizes that he doesn’t have the answers and is open to learning from someone who does. At that point, it won’t be long before he will find someone to fulfill that need. Life is just like that. The teacher may have been there all along — but it’s not until the student is ready that the teacher becomes apparent to him.
You can learn from anything, from anywhere even a game. Just be ready to learn!
And now I want to talk about the Retreat Day with new ‘companion-in-arms on the weekend. We are 14 people who were lucky to be chosen together, stay together, play and learn together by CIO VietNam Community (1).
Here is the thing. Almost every time we play games like team-building type. Firstly, we don’t know each other, even name but after 1 day with games, we are likely friends with over 1 year together. We play 5 games with 2 types: Teamwork and Individual-effort. I’m going to combine with the book Culture Code by Daniel Coyle (4.3 / 5 on Goodread) to sum up what I learn:
Teamwork - Successful group cultures focus on relationships rather than individual skills
Many times, bringing people together to achieve a common goal can prove to be a difficult task. This difficulty can be attributed to factors ranging from vast differences in opinions to having the wrong approach to tasks.
Culture is a set of living relationships working toward a shared goal. It’s not something you are. It’s something you do. — by Daniel Coyle
So we can imagine the formula here:
Repetition + Relationship + Goal = Culture
Group culture is one of the most powerful forces on the planet. So building a relationship between every individual, keep the relationship in the long term and share the same goal, all of these will give the organization a great culture. Or we can say the organization has great behaviours.
So the lessons I learn here: In the long-term, join with a team share the same goal, build and keep a relationship with your teammate and don’t forget repetition goal and relationship to go far.
Individual Effort — You will be kicked out of great culture code without effort
- What’s the average weight (in grams) of an office paper A4?
When we began the individual effort, we received this question. All we know that A4 is very and so light and after searching, I know it weighs ~ 5 g. Too light, right?
And the game is How long can you hold the A4 paper if you stand erect with a straight arm?
Before the game, the maximum number I heard was 20 minutes.
And the thing is, after 45 minutes we still stand erect. It’s easy? No!
- Without encouragement from our coach, we can’t do it.
- Without consistent from keep standing erect from our next teammate, we can’t do it.
- And without individual effort to try our best, say NO to give up, we can’t do it.
So, individual effort is the most important thing to personal growth. Based on it, we can have a great culture in an organization and achieve the goal, even the star!
Thank you to CIO Viet Nam to choose me and become a part of the 5th Coaching Seasion. Only on the retreat day, we did learn a lot of things, from the real deal, not just theoretically.
(1) CIO VietNam Community was established in 2010 with the aim of bringing together potential managers, leaders and human resources through practical activities such as learning, connecting and sharing useful, multi-value IT application form in many different fields.
The activities of the CIO VietNam Community are based on the actual needs of businesses in Vietnam and the region, at the same time, continuously updating the fastest IT development trends in the world, bringing practical value. and highly applicable to the IT community.
With enthusiastic and experienced executive members and Advisory Board, CIO Vietnam has a mission to build and develop a community for leaders and managers in the IT field and members who want to become to become a future IT manager.
