1) Ensure everyone on your team knows where they are going – have a defined destination and goal.
2) Prepare your team for hardships and challenges.
3) Encourage your team to work together.
4) Learn to go with the flow of the river and be flexible - sometimes you must make quick changes on a wilderness river and in management.
5) Create an environment that encourages innovation – reward new ways of doing things.
6) Help your team to identify obstacles and rapids – these are your challenges and opportunities.
7) Make tasks understandable and set timetables.
8) Ask for participation and encourage leadership.
9) Create moments of controlled excitement.
10) Celebrate successes with a defined incentive program – every day.
For more information on how to hire Bob Phillips to work with your team call us at 403.979.1962 or email us for a detailed speaker and consulting package. We have several options including a single day management seminar, an on-river management training experience, or a tailored consulting project. As a bonus we will send you the detailed paper on how to use these management rules with your team.
