Valley Crossing

In today's lecture Dr. Mandi asked us to perform valley crossing exercise in a group of three. The agenda behind this exercise was to learn Organizational Management.

The task at hand required a group of three people to move from left side of the valley to the right side with the help of a pole. After closely analyzing the task I would say the key ingredient to success were

1)      Coordination among team members

2)      Efficient execution of the strategy devise

This activity also demonstrated how an organization works, how the roles and responsibilities are assigned to the employees and how safety can become an important aspect in increasing the efficiency of the organization.

Team work is very important

There were 3 states that came up during valley crossing which are listed as below

Safe State: Safe state is the one in which both the feet of a person is on ground and he is in not in danger.

Half Safe: Half Safe is the state in which one leg of the man is in air and the other one on ground.

Full Risky: Full risky is the state in which both the legs of the man is in air and his body weight is supported by the other two men.

All these states are clear from the below picture:

Main learning's from the above exercise can be summarized as below:

1. Responsibility: Every role is equally responsible. In a team every person shares a similar role but not the same role i.e. there is no differentiation of work between the persons doing the valley crossing.

2.  Faith:Trust was necessary for them because when somebody was in full risky state all of his hope was on the other two and if any of the two failed then he could have fallen into the valley

3.  Effective Strategy Implementation:Strategy and planning are futile without effective implementation

4. Training:Proper training is essential to achieve the desired level of results

5. Goal:There should be a well defined goal and every team member should have absolute clarity about it

6. Trust:Mutual trust and belief are the foundation of a good team

7. Leadership:Leadership and team work aren’t two separate entities. Collective leadership from the team delivers optimum results

8. Accountability And Responsibility:Every team member is accountable and responsible for the job at hand 

9. Innovation:There has to be openness in terms of new ideas and suggestion


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-Ajit