Personal goals - at work

The Growth Facilitators team had a wonderful session yesterday expertly designed and facilitated by Camille. The objective of our 3 hour workshop was to develop our personal objectives for the year. Camille took us through a process of identifying what we wanted to achieve in five areas:
1. Health and fitness
2. Money
3. Professional
4. Relationships
5. Me!

We each experienced various levels of difficulty doing the exercises, but the challenges and the sharing brought forth many insights. We all left the workshop "fired up" (to quote Robert).

Now, you may ask, what do our personal objectives have to do with Growth Facilitators' performance? Answer? EVERYTHING! For when we are achieving, fulfilled and satisfied in our "personal" lives, we are much, much more productive and effective when carrying out Growth Facilitators' work.

For example, facilitation is a physically taxing activity. Doing a one-day workshop means that we are literally on our feet for the entire day. We rarely sit, and are constantly walking around, taking care of the needs of the entire group. We would have been up very early in the morning, for we have to be at the venue at least one hour prior to the start of the workshop. And at the end, when our clients have left, we have at least another hour of packing up and documenting notes. A one-day workshop represents ten to twelve committed hours of physical work on the day - not to mention of course all the preparation that went into the workshop in the days prior. So, it is very important that the Growth Facilitators team be healthy and fit. It is hard to keep our workshop participants' energy up if ours is flagging because we are sick, unfit or burned out.
The other question you may pose to us is why do this exercise together, for aren't our personal objectives our business and no-one else's? There was a wonderful energy of love and support in the workshop. We were not pressured to share our objectives, but some of us did. We also felt empowered to ask for the help and support of the team. For example, most of us set objectives around eating more healthily or losing weight. Critical to our achieving this is the support of Elaine, who stocks our kitchen. "No cookies please Elaine", we asked as she headed out to the supermarket.

So powerful was this workshop for us individually and as a team, that we have decided to offer it to our clients. We feel sure that your team members will benefit from the focus, support and the energy of the team, and that these benefits will undoubtedly result in much improved organizational performance.