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Thrivin’ in the Hive: Team Plan Bee Provides May Retreat Team-Building Activity

A critical competency for any leader is his/her ability to facilitate team building. Team building has the power to strengthen working relationships, facilitate collaboration, inspire and motivate others to reach common goals, foster commitment, team spirit, and pride, and build trust.

Each year, scholars are assigned to learning teams. Learning teams are arranged with a person from each of the participating states so that cross-border issues in public health can be discussed during assignments, while maximum networking and best practice sharing across the southeast is facilitated. Teams provide networking opportunities that individual curriculum development activities cannot. It is these developed relationships that have the potential to strengthen and further develop the public health workforce.

SEPHLI teams reunite at the May Retreat to work on learning assignments, mentor one another providing feedback on leadership project-development and individual development plans, and to network further with one another. During the May 2008 Retreat, SEPHLI team Plan Bee decided to provide their own team-building activity and entertainment for the scholars. Laughing and singing, Plan Bee and other scholars dressed up like bees and sang “Thrivin’ in the Hive” (to the tune of “Stayin’ Alive”) in costume. See photos from the spectacle.

Read lyrics to “Thrivin’ in the Hive” (pdf)

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