SIM training week. I learned I was a plant, amongst other things. Dandelion huh? Plant as in a character type in a team. A plant is the imaginative one with ideas but head in the clouds. We each had to answer loads of questions and compile our results which would then reveal what team character we naturally are. Our results were tested with various team-work activities. One group activity was to take 75 thin, 1ft long wooden sticks, 3 large paperclips, some string, thread, and selotape and with these raw materials construct a tower in 30 minutes which could not only sustain the weight of a big bag of Minstrels, but also winch the bag to the top of the tower. The team who achieved the greatest winched height became the winners of everybody else's Minstrels, so there was a lot at stake.
As Plant I imagined a 12ft tall skyscraper that touched the ceiling, built in the form of a tripod. Very head in the clouds. As there are certain scientific laws that Plants don't consider much, it turned out the vision had to be scaled back somewhat to live in science's constraints. It ended up a feeble 5ft high which could only scrape a low-flying chin rather than the clouds. It still won and the team won the Minstrels! My tongue now hurts from sugar-overdose.
