Meeting Mentors

Reading Homework: Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups. A model for team effectiveness: Group emotional intelligence > trust, identity, efficacy > participation, cooperation, and collaboration > better decisions, more creative solutions, and higher productivity. Today our group activity was to demonstrate and explain how to build emotional intelligence of groups. I talked about a time that I did it "badly" and lost a team mate. I cried! Oh well.

Today we did speed introductions the mentors. Driving down I had wrestled as I already knew two of the mentors and had thought I would pick one of them and couldn't decide! But realized some other people would be better for me during the introductions and I already interact with Will and Tony. And the Institute made that easy as they said we couldn't pick people we already worked with. So I had Wayde Glover as my first choice, then Mellie Randell as second choice and left it up to them for third as I couldn't decide after that. A couple I crossed out, knowing already that they wouldn't work for me. But mostly interesting people were available to be mentors. Lucky for all of us.

Tonight I had scheduled a meeting of the SA Council workgroup that I participate on, although I am not sure of my role: staff support from RBHA? liasion from RBHA? But they allow me to fully participate in ideas and structuring. They even had me chair the last meeting in Will's absence. Will was funny, stating he hoped someone would pick him for a mentor! Even the mentor's have worries about stuff like that.