How to Develop a High Performing Team

How to Deliver A High Performing

Team

Under extreme pressure

Step 1Assemble the

TEAM

Does your team have the needed competencies?

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Raft Guides

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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

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Pillow Rock

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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

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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.