It’s wonderful to have all of the new and returning Eagles in the studio excited for this new year! This session the MS and HS Eagles have been working on getting to know each other, building contracts and systems, and going through an introduction to Organizational Development.
The team building activities are geared toward bringing the group together and working through team challenges to help them get to know each other and to start to trust each other. The biggest example of this is the Lip Dub. The Eagles are put into small groups and each small group has to work together to create a finished product that eventually has to communicate with the other groups to make a bigger final product. There are many lessons learned about communication, organization, and basic project management all while being totally self led (some of them for the first time).
The Eagles are also creating new student contracts and rules of engagement this session. The Eagles have been able to have many productive conversations about what rules need to be put into place and why they are important for their studio environment.
On top of everything else, we have rolled out a short Organizational Development Quest that is based on the book Traction which is the EOS system that defines an organization system to help: Define Core Values, Vision & Big Rock Goals for this year.
For this session’s exhibition, the MS & HS (in their own exhibitions) will be presenting their core values speeches and studio vision and then will be going over how Journey Tracker works. The MS will individually present their Hero Boards and show you their personal progress through Journey Tracker. The High School with be presenting part of their Life Walk and their personal Journey Tracker progress.
