Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Turn This Ship Around

"Focus your messages on the results you expect, not on the methods for doing the job."
-- Marty Brounstein, communications trainer

I have been searching for a way to communicate the message and story of the book I just finished "Turn this Ship Around" by David Marquet Captain - Retired, of the USS Santa Fe nuclear submarine.
This 10 minute video does the trick. If you want to know how to coach your team to think like owners, be creative, love their jobs, be accountable for results, then watch and listen to how he did it with a ship full of sailors with low morale, terrible ratings and terrible attitudes. He turned it into the best nuclear sub in the Navy with the highest re-enlist rates (sailors and officers signing up for another hitch) of any ship.

How: He stopped giving orders/stopped answering questions. He told them the results he wanted and had the crew say out loud, "I intend to...", before they took action. It works for my clients too.  


Inno-Versity Presents:
Inno-Versity Presents: "Greatness" by David Marquet


All the best, 
Rick Wallace

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