My Staff Team!
First off if you want the best support system you most likely will get it with your job! :)
When I first was offered this job I was so exited just about being an RA that I forgot about who I'll be working with. In the spring I went to "meet your staff" and met most of them just to get to know my RHC (resident hall coordinator) and the rest of the RA's and CP's ( community programmers)
Over the summer we got the final list if staff members and of course I went on Facebook and added them.
First day of moving in I knew 3 out of 12 of my staff team pretty well when the other 9 staff memebers I pretty much just heard of.
The day before training a couple of us all sat around in the lounge making decorations and just talking with the rest of the staff getting to know them before all the craziness of training started.
As training went on I got to know about each and everyone. How they deal with certain things and how we are all different from one another. Along with what happens with one another if we get stressed out and what we need if that means that one of us needs to be being left alone or just needs to talk it out with someone.
We took at strengths test as part of our training where we learned each of out big "strengths". With me my big strength is I'm a "includer" I want everyone to be involved or find a way for people to enjoy themselves by not leaving them out.
On my staff team we have people who's big strengths are communication, competition, input, analyzer, harmony, woo along with many others.
Each of these strengths makes us unique to each other and we grow on them.
This helped my staff team realize we are each different in certain ways but also similar with our top 5 strengths.
As the first quarter has gone on. Our staff team meets once a week to talk about upcoming things along with things needing to be discussed and figured out as a team.
Our staff team has hung out a lot around the hall and out of the hall and we rely on each other In our own ways.
One thig that makes a community great is when there isn't drama or tension between the Staff team. I've heard in the past it doesn't help with community.
I personally look forward to seeing my staff team when ever I leave or am having a hard day and needs to just talk or get a hug from someone. Also just to have a good time and hang out.
I love my staff team and that's one of the big things that makes this job so amazing!
