A team in ten minutes
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Claim: organisations can compress team formation into minutes by rehearsing diverse crisis crews. RNLI runs weekly exercises with ~40 volunteers, picking six volunteers to launch a £2.5 million boat about ten minutes after an alarm, using realistic scenarios, clear roles, enabling constraints (budget, time), and a backlog of messy problems. The method uses repetition, social bonds and failure-tolerant runs to build resilience, produce ad hoc cross-functional networks, and increase preparedness for unpredictable interruptions.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:31A team in ten minutes
- 1:42Do we respond to crises
- 2:29How do we respond
- 3:23Traditional training
- 3:47Exercising
- 4:12Training
- 5:26Team Building
- 5:38Three Bullet Points
- 6:04How can we apply this
- 10:00Let it run
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