The principles necessary to develop a High Performing Team are the same for any business team, virtual team or sports team. Here they are demonstrated by a white water raft team executing a very difficult strategy. 1-Mission 2- Commitment 3- Alignment 3-Scrafice 4- Trust 5-Required skills What does your team have?

1. Under extreme pressure

2. Does your team have the needed
competencies?

3. Raft Guide
Raft Guide
Raft Guides
Some of the team
Exceptional
Raft Guide
Light weight gutsy person

6. Stamp means to hit a rock (this is Pillow Rock)
with your paddles or boat
Hit Rock Here

7. 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.

8. The Gauley River is one of
the 10 most difficult rivers in
the lower 48 states.

9. Hard even for the experts

10. 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.

11. Water rushing down hill and hitting Pillow
Rock

13. Some times you make it

14. Most of the time you don’t

20. This is the idea
Nose of boat

22. Pillow
Rock
Start
Run
Here

23. Pillow
Rock
Start
Run
Here
Dangerous
Rocks

26. Inertia
Hole
The
course
past
Inertia
Hole

28. Here the weight is in the center of the raft

31. There are
two different
entrances to
the rapid, the
orange route
and the
yellow
route.
We choose
the yellow route
Inertia
Hole

32. We choose
the yellow
route
because
the orange
route has
lateral
waves
that pull
you off
course
Inertia
Hole
Lateral Waves
That cause
problems

33. It is also
best to
avoid the
Room of
Doom
That will be
a definite
BIG
swim
Inertia
Hole
Room Of Doom
Lateral Waves

34. Entering the rapid, just past the rock
in the top middle of the river.

35. Raft is
here
Start
Run
Here
Dangerous
Rocks

36. Key to team success is alignment,
notice every paddle is out of the
water and at roughly the same angle.

37. Each individual understands and is focused on
their role

38. Each individual is also completely aware of what
their teammate is doing---The Paddles Are
Always Aligned.

39. 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.

40. 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.

41. The light weight person in the nose
pulls back on the safety line lifting the
nose of the raft.

42. Pulling back on the nose will give extra
lift, the raft will stand perpendicular
to the river.

43. Perfect execution of a very difficult task in a
changing unpredictable environment

56. I have been apart of
local and state
Government
councils
boards, and
teams.

57. I have owned my own
Whitewater Rafting
Company

69. I am the person who hates to swim ,
I was back left,
and washed out.