High Performance in a Day?
I was recently asked if it’s possible to get a team from just beginning to work together to high performance in a single afternoon.
There is a way to do it. The technique is very similar to how you train for a marathon in a single day.
The trick is in what you do to prepare for that one day.
If, for example, you’ve spent about six months running 3-4 times a week and doing other physical conditioning, then you’ll be ready for your one day. If, on the other hand, you haven’t been running or doing other physical exercise, that one day of marathon training might not work so well and you might not feel like moving for several days afterward.
Team building in a single day is much the same. It’s all a question of how you’ve prepared.
Most training exercises tell you where your team is at and show you how to move forward. Without the proper
preparation, that’s the most they’re good for. At least you usually aren’t left as sore at the end as you are with that one day marathon session. Training for a marathon or building a team, if you aren’t willing to invest the time to prepare, the rest really doesn’t matter.
