Change with the wind

Editor's Notes

• #9: Pilots train for several hundred hours in flight simulators in order to sharpen their skills before taking flight. Imagine how analogous simulations in your company would payoff in the real, bottom line situations your teams face every day. You could improve philosophies, thoughts and actions, unlock hidden potentials, develop professional leaders—and build your team’s overall effectiveness. Under the right conditions, strength building on a modern sailing vessel can help your teams simulate these difficult and often stressful situations. Along with a professional facilitator, who provides feedback and teaching, your teams can quickly begin applying their new skills to company challenges.
• #10: Conditions on a yacht do not respect the hierarchical environments we encounter in traditional business. It is an opportunity to bring out the best in everyone. With over 10 years of developmental science applied to organizational strength building in the sailing environment, Nautic7 offers the absolute premium in experiential training. Varying exercises have been specifically designed to pinpoint the individual needs of each of your teams within your organization. On a sailboat, team members are put through their paces in an unfamiliar environment, and they face unusual problems. It’s a compact environment. There’s no escape. Resources are limited. There’s no individuality. The team must rely on each other. Physical strength or academic achievement is no advantage. Every team member is on an even keel. Communication, leadership and fellowship are paramount. Under such conditions, strengths and weaknesses quickly rise to the top. And your team grows stronger.
• #11: A team’s greatness is directly proportional to its experiential situations. How they’ve worked together, the key lessons taken from each situation, and the core philosophy of a team and its leader. It logically follows that core philosophy defines thought, thought defines actions, actions define results and results define success. It is important then that the overall leadership fosters an environment for achievement. Successful companies are constantly asking themselves “How can we get our teams to gel together better? How can we improve communications and teamwork? How can we develop true leaders?” Now with Nautic7 Organizational Strength Building, the answer to all of these questions is to “get out on the water.”
• #12: Nautic7 provides an array of practical, sailing-related exercises and activities that focus on building high performing teams and developing leaders. These activities are incorporated into customized programs for each client. When applied in conjunction with facilitated sessions, the exercises are designed to address all the key elements and competencies that contribute to successful teams in almost any business environment. Sailing is an exceptionally good way to train high performance teams. Whether for business, education, sport or just socially, sailing is stimulating. It is an opportunity for organizations that value the contribution of their teams to enhance the performance of the organization as a whole. Furthermore, since each voyage is different and the experience is the psychological creation of those aboard, sailing allows for experimentation, learning and changing which can then be applied—and valued—in the workplace. In addition, it’s notable that the external conditions on a yacht can change in a few hours from idyllic and sublime to severely testing and even stressful. Such circumstances simulate the dynamic environments that organizations today have to face and adapt to. Our programs are tailored to meet the specific requirements of each client and range from one- to three-day programs, and incorporate one or more of the specially designed exercises We provide sailing captains and team facilitators for the training programs, or you can provide your own facilitator, who we will train on each exercise prior to the event.
• #15: I coudl not end without talking about communciation. Keep your employees informed. Make them understand. Tell them everything they need to know. Tell them what the vision is. Inspire them!