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Learning from Adventure !! Developing Emotional Intelligence from a huge adventure:
!! Few real challenges left. We live in a social hierarchy,
Emotional Intelligence as important if not more important
than technical skills;
!! What do we really know how to do?
!! Skills developed in true wilderness, man against force of
nature, what does that teach us?
!! Two extreme adventures:
!! Sail round world solo non stop, [162 successful to date];
!! Sail round world in team.
!! What can these teach us?
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Case: Team Round World !! Organization Sponsoring Round the World:
!! Clipper Round the World;
!! Founded by Robin Knox Johnston, first man solo non stop circumnavigator;
!! 18 amateur man team on 68 foot sloop;
!! 8 stop-overs, 40,000 miles, longest 6,000 miles;
!! Round the world in Critical motivations:
!! Develop understanding of personal limits;
!! Trust in others;
!! Learn emotional intelligence from extreme surroundings;
!! Change life
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Case: Solo Round World !! Organization Sponsoring Round the World:
!! Velux 5 oceans, Vendee Globe
!! Velux founded by Robin Knox Johnston;
!! Vendee founded by Titouan Lamazou & Loick Peyron
!! Solo round the world on 60 foot IMOCA Open
!! Professional sailors and very few amateurs participate, as very dangerous;
!! Round the world in Critical motivations:
!! Develop understanding of personal limits;
!! Trust in others;
!! Learn emotional intelligence from extreme surroundings;
!! Change life
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Awareness !! Awareness of self makes you perform at a far higher
level than individual can possibly dream of;
Amygdala center for self protection in brain.
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Manage your Amygdala !! Amygdala regulates flight or fight: - “self protection”;
!! Secretes a hormone which last approx 4 hours, makes its harder to step back and make rational decisions;
!! Heightens reactions, defensive, attacking……;
!! What can we learn from a true adventure that stretches us?
!! Engage in true self knowledge;
!! Develop fear management. Fear is a constant companion in the deep ocean, weather, sleep deprivation, injury, mental fatigue;
!! Define yourself;
!! Develop higher understanding of self and others;
!! Manage your feelings and thoughts;
!! Develop highly effective Team Building skills.
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Effective Teams Perform !! ;
!! Teams that effectively manage emotional intelligence achieve 20% increased in overall performance;
!! Need a critical mass of emotional intelligence;
!! Senior managers with critical mass of emotional intelligence capabilities led divisions that outperformed yearly earnings goals by 20%;
!! Those with no emotional intelligence critical mass underperformed by almost the same amount.
Source: What makes a leader, HBR Daniel Goleman. 1996 study by McClelland.
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Balancing Needs
Individual Group
Performance
Roles
Rules
Motivation
Recognition
Groups pull individuals in opposing directions. More individual freedom for team
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Emotional Stress
Long Term
Damage to thinking
relationship
Fast Unreasonable
Response
Primitive
Dino Brain Stimulus
Separate Thoughts and Feelings
From actions, critical for survival
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Process
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
Evaluating
The intensity of the effort follows the arc shown above
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2010
Forming !! Define mission, purpose, form teams, assign roles;
!! Training and Orientation
!! Assess team readiness.
!! Very close supervision as team build relationship behaviour patterns.
!! TASK RELATIONSHIP
!! Comments:
!! Training week to asses each members capabilities and how operate as a team. Welcome on-board so to speak!
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Training
Week Getting to
Know You
Assess
Team
readiness
Understand
discomfort
of being
different
Storming !! Morale is at lowest level as group begins to find its
legs, before setting up norms for group behavior;
!! TASK RELATIONSHIP
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Teams on
site. How
do we do
this?
Learning
what you do
not know
about others
How to
do things
better?
Not all your
behaviour is
effective
Aware of what others do not know about you. Explain and Learn
Team Forming Norming
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TASK RELATIONSHIP
Roles and
rules for
watch keeping
Group
meeting
learning,
Feedback
Suggest better
methods
Encourage
dissent, out
of box
thinking
Accountablity… What works? What does not?
Performing
Team is performing at maximum intensity for highest results
Motivation/morale is at highest levels
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TASK RELATIONSHIP
Daily log
on progress
Maintenance
and breakages
Goals set
To stretch
Performance
Doing
everything
for Safety?
What worked?
Result in line with effort, expectations?
Celebrate
What was unexpected
Group interaction was < than sum of parts?
Group
Learning
Evaluating
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Summary !! Emotional Intelligence basis of each team members
ability to contribute effectively;
!! Adventure experience excellent way to develop lasting
leadership skills for top management;
!! Building effective leaders in all tem, increases
productivity and effectiveness by 20%;
!! Can you afford not to build real teams?
!! Last growth in emotional intelligence can be applied in
many fields.
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