Transcript Humphrey Walters Performance Director 0870

“Building winning
teams is a game of
inches”
Humphrey Walters
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Letter to myself
If you really want to Win!!
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Up the tempo
World class basics
Pride in the badge
Ruthless simplicity
Critical non essentials
Everything beats the deadline
Good enough isn’t
Never leave the game early
Celebrate mini victories
“ It’s great to be smart but never assume the
other person is stupid”
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Getting better never stops
Reached capacity
Bored
Go to next level
Concentrate what I am interested in
In a rut
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Sigmoid Curve
A
Angst zone
B
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Sigmoid Curve
A
B
Move early
Decrease the
angst zone
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If you want to travel fast – go alone
If you want to travel far – go together
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Our Cause
To be:-
Safe – Happy – Fast
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Look for the
gap in the wave
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A Winning Organisation
MANAGEMENT
VISION
CULTURE
TEAM
BUILDING
STRATEGY
LEADERSHIP
FOLLOWERSHIP
Winning
zone
PARTNERSHIP
TEAM
WORKING
SUPPORT
X BOUNDARY
TEAM WORKING
SYNERGY
COOPERATION
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COMMITMENT
Followership
“Why should anyone want me
in their team?”
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9 Followers Duties
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Punctuality
Empathy
Scuttlebutt
Leave on “Wave behind”
Sort it by next watch
Your responsibility to get on with others
Keep yourself alive – personal responsibility
Value other’s opinions
Find Heroes
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What would you do as a leader?
You get a yacht based in Plymouth on dry land
You get all the rigging , winches ,bunk stuff on a box.
You have to step the mast etc.
In other world you have to assemble your yacht
You have two weeks to get the yacht ready and sail it to
Southampton to make the start line
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3 Factors to consider
1. Task
2. Team
3. Individual
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The Scenario
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10th in the World
5th management regime
Just turned professional
Temporary work force
Club v Country
Council 57 members
Massive debt
No direct Boss
Decision making
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Attitude to Change
“Staying as you are is painless –
Change is pain”
“We need to find 100 things and do
them 1% better”
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Three critical factors
1.What’s our cause?
2.Our identity – pride in the badge?
3.How do we operate as a team?
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What’s our cause?
“Our duty is to Inspire The Nation”
Oct 1997 Manor Inn
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Three critical factors
2. Our identity – pride in the badge
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Three critical factors
3. How do we operate as a team
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Visionaries
“In it to Win it”
chasm
Early
adopters
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Fence
Sitters
No Way
Terrorists
“T-Cup”
“Thinking correctly
under pressure”
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Examine success
“To win is great BUT not to know
why you have won is
unforgiveable”
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What will make the difference?
10 areas to look at
1. How strong is the cause?
2. Pride in the badge?
3. 6 F creativity?
4. Teamship rules?
5. 100 things – 1% better?
6. Drive on personal responsibility?
7. Give people battles they can win?
8. Examine success?
9. Remind everyone how good they are?
10. Have enough fun?
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Never forget to :-
“learn from the past but dream of
the future - for that is where we
are going to spend the rest of our
lives”
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Humphrey Walters
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