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Last year I began to include team-building and the facilitation of important skills into the introduction week activities for Frankfurt School’s undergraduate programme. This year, we expanded our offerings. In the beginning, it’s all about setting the tone. In my welcoming speech, I spoke about success and the passion that one needs to be successful, about responsible leadership and about a constant focus on personal improvement.
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This fits in nicely with the workshop that began directly afterwards. We teamed up with Rock Your Life! Akademie from Munich. They provided a group of young, energetic coaches who worked with students over the course of two days to discover their strengths and find out what motivates and drives them. The students also developed ideas for social entrepreneurship projects. We spent the two days in the Youth Hostel in Nuremberg, a magnificent place that is part of the castle complex.
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The next day was about action and team-building: the entire cohort spent an afternoon on a lake near Frankfurt. In teams, students had to build dragon boats and compete in a race against each other. My colleagues and I built a raft using barrels and planks. It floated really well until some students decided to sink it… This post has been cross-posted from Matthias Catón’s personal blog.
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