how to develop a high performing team
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The principles necessary to develop a High Performing Team are the same for any business team, virtual team or sports team. Here they are demonstrated by a white water raft team executing a very difficult strategy. 1-Mission 2- Commitment 3- Alignment 3-Scrafice 4- Trust 5-Required skills What does your team have?TRANSCRIPT
How to Deliver A High Performing
Team
Under extreme pressure
Step 1Assemble the
TEAM
Does your team have the needed competencies?
Raft GuideRaft Guide
Raft Guides
ExceptionalRaft Guide
Light weight gutsy person
Some of the team
Step 2Establish a
Mission
The Mission:Stamp Pillow Rock
Stamp means to hit a rock (this is Pillow Rock) with your paddles or boat
Hit Rock Here
The Mission:Stamp Pillow Rock
What a silly mission, until you realize that Pillow Rock is a huge rock at the bottom of a class V rapid on the Upper Gauley River.
The Mission:Stamp Pillow Rock
The Gauley River is one of the 10 most difficult rivers in the lower 48 states.
Hard even for the experts
Pillow Rock rapid is described as pure raw power, the river drops a dramatic 30 feet in only 75 yards as the water is forced down a narrow shoot and hits the gigantic rock at the bottom.
Water rushing down hill and hitting Pillow Rock
Pillow Rock Rapid ends in a surging
ramp of water more than 10 feet high on
the side of a rock
Some times you make it
Most of the time you don’t
Step 3Develop the strategyand make the plan
of action.
Remember!Strategy answers
the question “What makes us
different?”
Our Strategy:To stamp the rock
with the nose of the raft
This is the idea
Nose of boat
1. Run a very careful course and enter on the right of the river
Pillow Rock
StartRunHere
Pillow Rock
StartRunHere
DangerousRocks
2. Move to the center and hit the left edge of Inertia
Hole
2. Inertia Holeis a jaw jarring hit that can be runbut will through
the raft off course
InertiaHole
ThecoursepastInertiaHole
3. After the hole easy back a bit,
moving most of the weight to the rear
of the raft
Here the weight is in the center of the raft
4. The light weight person jumps to the front in position to pull back on the nose of the raft
Here is a map or the written version of
the strategy.
There are two different entrances tothe rapid, the orange route and the yellowroute.
We choosethe yellow route
Inertia Hole
We choose the yellow route becausethe orangeroute haslateral wavesthat pullyou off course
Inertia Hole
Lateral WavesThat causeproblems
It is also best to avoid the Room of Doom
That will be a definiteBIGswim
Inertia Hole
Lateral Waves
Room Of Doom
Entering the rapid, just past the rock in the top middle of the river.
Raft is here
StartRunHere
DangerousRocks
Key to team success is alignment, notice every paddle is out of thewater and at roughly the same angle.
Each individual understands and is focused on their role
Each individual is also completely aware of whattheir teammate is doing---The Paddles Are Always Aligned.
The leader successfully rides the edge of inertia hole. If they had hit the hole in the middle (a jaw breaking but fun hit) it would have thrown the raft to far to the right for Pillow rock.
The team sacrificed something good for something better.
The weight is in place, with most of it in the back 2/3 of the raft--- only one person in the nose of the raft.
The light weight person in the nose pulls back on the safety line lifting the nose of the raft.
Pulling back on the nose will give extralift, the raft will stand perpendicularto the river.
Perfect execution of a very difficult task in a changing unpredictable environment
Here it is again or you can visit the UTube version
What do I personally know about
developing high performing teams?
Plenty, I have been a member of dysfunctional groups and teams as a floor RN in the
hospital, and the labor and delivery room.
I have been apart of local and state
Governmentcouncils
boards, and teams.
I have owned my ownWhitewater Rafting
Company
I know the difference between a high
performing team, just a team, and a group.
High Performing Teams have:
1- Shared Mission/Vision
High Performing Teams have:
1- Shared Mission/Vision2-Commitment
High Performing Teams have:
1- Shared Mission/Vision2-Commitment3-Alignment
High Performing Teams have:
1- Shared Mission/Vision2-Commitment3-Alignment 4-Willingness to sacrifice
High Performing Teams have:
1- Shared Mission/Vision2-Commitment3-Alignment 4-Willingness to sacrifice5-Trust in each other
High Performing Teams have:
1- Shared Mission/Vision2-Commitment3-Alignment 4-Willingness to sacrifice5-Trust in each other6-The skills required
It takes the same elements for your
team to succeed asit did for this rafting
team.Are You Ready?
And where was I During all the excitement?
I am the person who hates to swim ,I was back left,and washed out.