1st Team Building and Company Outing

Our company here in Davao went to High Ponds Resort at Binugao Toril for our first ever company outing and team building last August 27, 2007. It was a holiday since it was the celebration of the National Heroes Day last August 26, 2007, which happens to fall on a Sunday and according to the law, if a holiday falls on a Sunday the following day would be a holiday. The davao staff assembled at the office at 6am and left at around past 7am.

We arrived at High Ponds Resort just before 8am. We were divided into four group with six members each. It was a mixture of the morning and night shift employees so that everybody would have the opportunity to get to know all the agents. Our group consisted of night agents Mark, Ricky, Elvie and Me, and morning agents Dean Ryan and Cyrose. The very first thing we had to do was to think of a group name. Since me and Mark were the youngest in the group( shhh... wag papalag! hehehe), we had to ask for opinions from our other team mates for the chants. We decided to call ourselves the cyber reps (since our jobs are basically internet/cyber based) and came up with a boom tarat tarat inspired chant. Each group came up witth very creative team names and chants. The only group name that i can recall was group 3's very "sipsip" group name "agents of merju.".

Group one had a spelling inspired chant. With ice ice bebi laughing all the way while reading her "kodigo". The runaway winner for the group chant was of course the group that consisted of master rapper cliff, gladys, jocel, henry, lyka, and the very groovy kuya mike who was evidently giving it his all in the pictures. Homebased writer Ms. Babeth was the host for the activities and games. We had the group juggling game, the giants wizards and elves game, the egg catcher and we made a mural as a summary of all the activities we did for the day.

We had our lunch then there was a short talk given by Mr. Pete Miole, the owner and Pres of Fix Right Allied Services, Inc. It was basically about how to avoid and resolve conflicts in the work place. After the talk, prizes were given to the groups and of course it was time to swim and have fun! But it seems not everybody was interested to take a dip in the pool. It was only me, mark, melissa, lyka and her BF, abby and her BF, and fortunately we were able to convince ice to join us after a lot of teasing from me and melissa and a promise that we would help her to change her dress. We really had fun playing in the pool and jumping into the water. Ice even took a video of that jump into the pool. I am looking forward to more company outings in the near future.