#WinningTeam

Nick  DucoffVP  Content  @  Boundless

Our  Goals

1.  Assembling  your  team

2.  Leading  your  team

3.  Managing  your  team

HAM  it  up:  metaphors  increase  reten=on  by  as  much  as  40%

Assembling  your  team

Boundless  Archetypes

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Circle  of  Competence

Experience

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10,000

Winning

Tuckman’s  Stages  of  Group  Development

1. Forming:  agree  on  LT  goal2. Storming:  understand  indiv.  roles3.Norming:  row  in  same  direcOon4. Performing:  win!

Forming

Storming/Norming

Perfoming

Which  rookie  of  the  yr  would  you  hire?

Allen  Iverson  (11x  All-­‐Star,  4  NBA  scoring  =tles,  a-­‐hole)

Kyrie  Irving  (<1  yr  college,  <2  yr  NBA,  ambidextrous)

Leading  =  FighOng  for  LT  goal

The  Turkey  Effect

“There   is   surely   nothing  quite   so   useless   as   doing  with   great   efficiency  what  should  not  be  done  at  all.”

–Peter  Drucker

Set  the  general  direcOon

Be  fearless,  but  not  stupid

Weigh  the  data,  but  be  decisive

“The  test  of  first-­‐rate  intelligence  is  the  ability  to  hold  two  opposed  ideas  in  the  mind  at  the  same  =me,  and  s=ll  retain  the  ability  to  func=on.”

                         -­‐F.  Scoa  Fitzgerald

Phase  2  is  long  and  hard

When  should  you  pivot?

Managing  =  Achieving  ST  goals

Play  home  games

57.3%

Set  clear,  “right  sized”  goals

Start  in  the  red  zone  every  Ome

Touchdown  Comple4on  Rate  on  Last  Pass  Play

Run  opOon  routes

Be  demanding

Provide  support  from  the  sidelines

Lean  in

Celebrate  wins

Suggested  readings

• StrengthFinders  2.0  by  Tom  Rath– IdenOfy  your  and  others’  strengths  

• Selected  arOcles–More  on  Tuckman  h`p://bit.ly/cFOZmK–More  on  teams  h`p://bit.ly/Iy29gl–More  on  leading  h`p://bit.ly/SKODHk–More  on  managing  h`p://bit.ly/WDjetN– Praise:CriOcism  h`p://bit.ly/YCcw7N