Unfurl your Sails.... Beat your way to Success
While sailing in the ocean or functioning at the work place, staying in your ‘Comfort Zone’ is perhaps the biggest risk of all. Sailing, regardless of the size of the craft, demands unwavering focus, skill to manage a complex ecosystem of rapidly evolving forces, agility to maintain symbiosis with the elements, sharp reflexes to deal with risks and crises as they arise, and collaborative team work of a high order. In sum, the sailing experience is one that simulates functioning in a VUCA world.
Learning through introspection is a time-tested, evolved and high-impact methodology, which works across domains, including the modern business context. When such introspection is facilitated through a structured process in a simulation lab using a sailing, the resultant outcomes for participants, in terms of attitudinal shifts, behavioural change and improved synergy, are expected to be long-lasting.
The sailboat, the closest metaphor for an organisation, provides a perfect crucible for simulating an organisation. Most aspects of business, such as leadership, collaboration, purpose, mission, goals, strategy and tactics, handling competition and environment, can be simulated in a sailboat in real time. The immersive experiences whilst handling the sailboat in its journey can be mapped into an organisational context for examination and deeper introspection. The simulation lab in the instant case is set up on a sailboat and uses sailing as a metaphor for an organisation’s journey.
