Seeing Everyone Make Their Mark

Hello Everyone!
It’s official! We have been home from training for a little over a week now and working hard to get things running smoothly.
I was looking back at journal entries I made right before, during, and after training and realized that the experiences I had at training were the most valuable and amazing experiences I have ever had. I was challenged to do things that I had never even thought of doing, such as speak to congressmen and women telling them about Delta Epsilon Chi and DECA. I was also taken out of my comfort zone when put into a room full of business people who were part of our National Advisory Board. But you know what? I did all of these things. I did all of these with the confidence that the members of my team and the DECA staff instilled in me.
After leaving training I found that this was the only team experience that I had had that was “textbook”. Going to a business school I had always been taught that “Teams go through six stages: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning.” This had never happened to me before and thought that this was something that the management professor’s had made up as something that they thought should happen, but never did. This does happen. This happens when you get a team of reliable and truly devoted members together. When we were adjourning, we looked back at the week and the Program of Work we created, and all agreed that this was, so far, the best team that we had ever been a part of, because for once we did not feel as if we had to check up on each other to make sure that we were doing work, but rather focus on making this the best and most productive year possible. We can't wait to see what happens in the upcoming year!
One of the most rewarding experiences after getting back from training was hearing all of the great things that chapters, states, and provinces are doing all over. I came into contact with so many members who were just as enthusiastic and passionate about the organization as I am. These people are coming up with the most inventive and helpful ideas to do things like community service, fundraising, and building supportive and strong teams.
I can’t wait to get out and meet everyone who I have talked to so far and see the great things that their chapters are doing, especially during CARE month (October 1st-November 1st). Check out the CARE page on the website at www.deltaepsilonchi.org/care.html.