Learning from the mountain- Set a common goal!

Let me continue my story on Learning from the mountain which I have described a bit on my experience in climbing Mount Tahan.



Remember the very first step: Planning



The mount climbing project was actually an unplanned activities by a group of people among my college mate. So happenned the College Head was announcing that each student shall involve at least in one co-curricular activities to enable them to complete the college certification. In the beginning, I was stunned that a total of more than 50 activities was made available for students to choose. However, not even one of it interest me!

Then, over a supper time, we have a chat with a few closed mate on how to go about addressing this, since we share the same opinion of not joining any of the 50 activities. Rather, to propose new activity for us to do! With less than half an hour, we come into conclusion to propose the group to go for Mount Climbing which is more challenging and interesting. Apart from that, we managed to come up with a draft of proposal defining project objectives, plans and also defined members roles and responsibilities.

My finding was, the group then change to team!. Why.... because we have common interest, share the same objective and expectation, we began to talk on the same subject and we commit into it!

Back to our corporate working environment,...
Do we set a goals?
Do we share the goals among team members?
Do we involve the team members when formulating the team goals?...to get the buy in...
Does the team members understand and buy the ideas?
Do they have the same values be practice among members?