So....over the course of my career, I have attended many meetings. People in the early childhood field are always trying to find a better way to things because we are in a field that is every changing.
A couple of years ago I worked with the best team I have ever worked with. We had to come together to put together a conference for all the Child Care Directors in our community. We had our ups and downs, but it was a joy to work with all those women from different aspects of the ECE profession.
We worked together for a month, and the more we worked together, the more we were able to effectively communicate with each other. Relationships and trust begin to form over time. When we knew that we would have to be done with conference soon, we all hated it. We had some together and did some really great things for our community, and we all wished we could continue working with each other.
On our last day we had to close our project because we where done. We all hugged and gave each other our phone numbers. To celebrate our success with the conference, we all went out to Happy Hour. Going out to Happy Hours was so nice and I am glad to say that we are all still friends and have worked on more projects together.
Even though the adjourning step can be tough, it is nice to properly close a project. I am so glad that the adjourning process was a great process for me.
Hi Cierra,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear you've been able to experience a good team. Have you all talked about ways you can maybe all work together again or take on another project at all? You mention of Happy Hour reminded me of college. In one class we put together study groups to work on tests. We were allowed to have open-book tests so we would all get together as a group and work together on the study guide, but would always work together at the local pizza place and celebrate with Happy Hour afterwards. At the end of the semester the whole class got together to celebrate, and some of us remained friends afterwards! Fun times :)
Hi Cierra,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your post; I like the fact that you and your colleagues were able to exchange numbers and remained friends. These kinds of friendship can amount to you all networking and possibly starting your own early childhood organisation where you can conduct parenting seminars, training seminars for teachers among a host of other things. I find when you have dedicated early childhood professionals working together and having successful events, the sky is the limit with how we can make the world a better place; one child at a time :o)
Debbie