TESDA Caraga conducts teambuilding, benchmarking in
Cebu
By Robert E. Roperos
BUTUAN CITY, May 19 – Personnel from the
TESDA-Caraga Regional Office together with the Provincial Training Centers in
Agusan del Norte and Surigao del Norte have recently participated the Team
Building and Benchmarking Activities in the Queen City of the South – Cebu.
According to TESDA-Caraga Regional Director Ashary
A. Banto, the conduct of the Team Building Activity is being institutionalized
in all government offices to give all civil servants the time to bond and help
them build a professional culture that is not only competent and efficient but
also one where there is a maximum cooperation, interaction and socialization
among officials and employees.
The official also said the activity is pursuant to
the provisions of the Omnibus Rules Implementing Book V of Executive Order No.
292 (Section 31, Chapter 5) which states that “each department or agency shall
prepare a career and personal development plan which include provisions, among
others, for employees’ health, welfare, counseling, recreation and similar
services.”
Dir. Banto likewise stressed that the activities
were simultaneously conducted to maximize the time of the personnel while they
are in Cebu. “First day of the activity is the conduct of the Teambuilding
while the Benchmarking was conducted on the last day,” Banto said.
During the teambuilding, the personnel underwent
teambuilding games that has intensified the relationship among the members in
the team. Each team is composed of mixed personnel from the Regional Office,
PTC-Agusan del Norte, and PTC-Surigao del Norte.
The benchmarking activity was conducted at the
Regional Training Center of TESDA in Cebu. TESDA Region VII Regional Director
Florencio F. Sunico, Jr. received the participants and they were given the
opportunity to visit the venues of the different qualifications offered by the
said training center.
In his speech during the fellowship night at TESDA
Region VII compound, RD Banto expressed his sincerest thanks and gratitude to
the officials and personnel of TESDA Cebu for their hospitality and
accommodating the request of the TESDA-Caraga. The official likewise awarded Certificates
of Appreciation to RD Sunico and the TESDA Cebu as well as the RTC
Administrator Engr. Winefredo Salas.
The activities were being conducted to afford all
officials and employees an opportunity to undertake staff development activity
that will enhance teamwork and improve team performance. It also discovers
effective ways to get tasks accomplished through others; develops next line of
leaders and see what they can accomplish through effective delegation; learn to
ask for help and how much (or little) communication needs to be done among
co-workers; discover the importance of communicating ideas and experiences
among the group to accomplish goals.
Moreover, by overcoming obstacles, the team’s
morale will soar, and discover how having fun and accomplishing goals can be
the best morale booster around; assess how each team members approaches their
work and what that means for reducing conflict and increasing cooperation; and
maximize quality, productivity, employees’ involvements, and employees’ needs
to be included in the issues that they influence. (TESDA-Caraga/PIA-Caraga)
