Meet my peeps...

At work, we went on a two day leadership offsite that included one hour of discussion in English each day. The rest was in Spanish. I did have one of the facilitators describing things in English along the way. I didn't miss much.
We talked a lot about Myers Briggs style stuff and how a team needs to work together. There were exercises, role playing and debates. There was some disagreements but they were diffused later. Standard team building stuff but with a Latin influence.
For me, it was one more time to develop relationships with the managers and other leaders in the company. There was a dinner on the first night and the 14 of us were split into two tables of 7 and given a pile of supplies - one team got red & yellow materials. The other team, green and blue items.
It was a long evening but sufficed it to say what started out as the development of the red/yellow team and it's attributes and the development of the blue/green team and it's attributes.....ultimately resulted in the formation of one stronger team.

So, meet the REDBLUEYELLOWGREEN Team.

It is a pretty good group.

The same night that we were having this team building event another historic event was taking place. The Argentine Senate was debating the President Cristina-imposed grain export duty. This imposed 45% duty has resulted in months of strikes, roadblocks, food shortages and pot banging protests. After two tied votes, Julio Cobos, the Vice President of the country cast the deciding vote at 4:30 in the morning. He voted against the bill and it was defeated. The country went nuts!

Cobos will either become the next president or he will disappear.

Ciao,

B.