Niagara College celebrated today its 7th or 8th so-called "Day of Reflection". It is a day where all staff are invited to reflect on a theme considered important for the college community. In past years we had themes such as "diversity", "internationalization" and "key performance indicators". This year the theme was based on the college's "Organizational Climate Survey". An outside agency conducts a college wide staff survey about the satisfaction with work circumstances every 3 years. This year in February was the 4th "Climate Survey" and the results were - in broad terms - presented today. At the photo above the external surveyor who gave a very interesting presentation which started the day.
Afterwards we broke out in small groups discussing aspects of the survey, and because I actively participated in some of the groups, I forgot to make a few photos....
The last hour of the event we were invited to actively participate in a "drum session". Below is the facilitator explaining things and getting us all enthusiastic.
The college staff members getting into the drumming....
Including College President dan Patterson!
It was a great way to end the reflection session of today. A few hundred people on drums is just always spectacular....even if the vast majority of us were just doing it for the very first time.
Afterwards back in the Welland Campus in our new international center I noticed the use of a drawing of the daugther of one of our colleagues in British Columbia. You can find the original drawing in one of my posts of early 2013 when Jeff send me the photo because he had talked at home about our "Be World Ready" campaign. I will have to send this to Jeff and his daugther.....
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