T.N. Tatem staff revel in team-building event

I had the pleasure of working with T.N.Tatem teachers and staff in a team-building event at the Warwick bowling lanes last weekend. 

T.N. Tatem is one of the Bermuda100 hubs, which is striving to development their school, community and stakeholders in their surrounding area.

The event was one of many team building exercises we will be doing with the school and other hubs. Teachers and staff attended and their engagement was tremendous, all seemed to enjoy themselves and showed great collaboration with  each other.

I must take this opportunity to say thank to the Bermuda100 staff, Mrs Simmons-Bean, deputy principal Mr Swan and the principal Mrs McMahon for making the event a success. 

I also want to say thanks to the Warwick bowling lanes staff for the warm welcome and helping make this possible.

The teachers and staff were divided into six teams: team encouragers; team hope; team believers; team thinkers; team successor and team motivators.

The bowling excercise was set as an ice-breaker and their next team-building session will be in January where the team members will go through a workshop on personality traits and how to lead within their own teams. 

We have some amazing teachers and staffers in Bermuda and I feel it is important they continue to be motivated. 

They work very hard and have one of the most amazing jobs in molding our young people’s minds.

The team-building exercises are part of the Hope4life/Center for College & Career Readiness  ‘Power of One’ process I developed last year and has been servicing the Baltimore Public City Schools since August. This is based on four levels of success:

Self-esteem: Learning personality traits and giving people an understand of how to bring these forward in their social and work places.  

Empowerment: Empowering themselves to develop goals and outcomes for their own success.

Tools for success: Getting people to research needs for those goals. 

Engagement: Engaging with others to help them reach goals and final outcomes.

Once again, thank you to all the educators and staff at T.N. Tatem and I look forward to working with you all in January.

Until next time. 

David Bascome is a soccer coach at Baltimore Blast and founder of the Hope4Life Foundation and the Bermuda100 initiative, which aims to support schools, and recruit and train leaders in our community.