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Building Winning Teams: Game of Inches

A motivational letter from Humphrey Walters exploring the key factors in building winning teams, including upping the tempo, world-class basics, ruthless simplicity, and celebrating mini victories. Learn how to achieve success and reach your full potential.

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Building Winning Teams: Game of Inches

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  1. “Building winning teams is a game of inches” H u m p h r e y W a l t e r s 07778-599009

  2. Letter to myself If you really want to Win!! • 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”

  3. Getting better never stopsReached capacityBoredGo to next levelConcentrate what I am interested inIn a rut

  4. Sigmoid Curve A Angst zone B

  5. Sigmoid Curve A B Move early Decrease the angst zone

  6. If you want to travel fast – go alone If you want to travel far – go together

  7. Our Cause To be:- Safe – Happy – Fast

  8. Look for the gap in the wave

  9. MANAGEMENT FOLLOWERSHIP VISION LEADERSHIP COMMITMENT CULTURE TEAM WORKING TEAM BUILDING PARTNERSHIP STRATEGY SUPPORT X BOUNDARYTEAM WORKING SYNERGY COOPERATION A Winning Organisation Winning zone

  10. Followership “Why should anyone want me in their team?”

  11. 9 Followers Duties • 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

  12. 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

  13. 3 Factors to consider Task Team Individual

  14. The Scenario • 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

  15. Attitude to Change “Staying as you are is painless – Change is pain” “We need to find 100 things and do them 1% better”

  16. Three critical factors • What’s our cause? • Our identity – pride in the badge? • How do we operate as a team?

  17. What’s our cause? “Our duty is to Inspire The Nation” Oct 1997 Manor Inn

  18. Three critical factors 2. Our identity – pride in the badge

  19. Three critical factors 3. How do we operate as a team

  20. Visionaries “In it to Win it” No Way Fence Sitters chasm Earlyadopters Terrorists

  21. “T-Cup” “Thinking correctly under pressure”

  22. Examine success“To win is great BUT not to know why you have won is unforgiveable”

  23. What will make the difference?10 areas to look at • How strong is the cause? • Pride in the badge? • 6 F creativity? • Teamship rules? • 100 things – 1% better? • Drive on personal responsibility? • Give people battles they can win? • Examine success? • Remind everyone how good they are? • Have enough fun?

  24. 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”

  25. H u m p h r e y W a l t e r s humphrey@humphreywalters.com

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