The Team Day (Norval)

Monday at Norval, I think that our team worked well together. The only difficulty we had was deciding how we were going to climb up the wall. We had to talk and discus options and ideas. We had to communicate. We had to agree. We had to practice. We had to work together and support each other.

We had to climb a fourteen foot wall. As well, each of us had four ropes attached to our body and we had to swing and grab the four balls lying on the ground. On the fourteen foot wall, I think that our team worked well together. We had to communicate while pushing somebody up the wall. Also, when we were swinging a person to get one of the four balls, one person would yell out, “Black and green pull up, white and other green let out”. This was the best time we communicated all day.

I think that communication is the key to doing anything well in a group. Communication is important when playing sports or just having fun together. If you can communicate as a group well, you can accomplish almost anything. In hockey for example, if you’re taking it around the net and your other defence partner says, “REVERSE,” then you know that you should pass the puck behind the net. Another thing that helps you work well as a team or group is to plan and practice. When you prepare you need to practice communicating as well. For example when we were pushing people up the wall, the first, second and third people were very hard but by the end we were pushing people in record time.

Norval was a good opportunity to learn and exercise my communication skills for school projects. It was especially beneficial because I was learning and practicing these skills with the people that I would use these skills with at school.

In conclusion, I think that the two most important things to working well as a team, on any type of team, you have to communicate well and practice things before you do them.