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To set the tone for the retreat, we began with a quick message from START leadership welcoming everyone, stating our retreat goals and behavioral norms, and reviewing our four START Core Values. These values remain the same from year to year, but are shaped each year by the group of people that make up START.
The next session was led by START faculty lead Dr. Akhtar Badshah, where he walked the Center through his Purpose Mindset framework and practice. This consisted of identifying personal motivators, strengths, and values. This helped individuals recognize how they and their teammates show up to work, how they work best, and what folks are learning to balance. People were split into small groups to create team purpose statements incorporating each individuals strengths and values.
meet with the client to discuss the purpose and methods stated in the work order, gain clarity on the project scope and final deliverables, and to ask any closing logistical questions. RAs were given roles to act out, with instructions to act out typical missteps and successful habits as a PM, teammate, and faculty lead. The group then discussed which behaviors that had been modeled to repeat and which to avoid.
The final session of the day focused on setting the tone for our community for the year. START Student Representatives, who are second year research assistants elected by their peers to represent the RAs to leadership, led this session. They first presented on how they wanted to work with the Center this year, and emphasized that we are a community at this learning Center. They then led the entire Center in a game that highlighted similarities between each other.