Leadership

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Leadership

• Lessons From the Underground

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• Leadership Situation1
• Exploration - The A-Team

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Review TheExploration Leader

• Decides the overall objective (the vision)
• Gets the team together
• Motivates the group
• Ensures logistics are covered
• Respects and supports expertise
• Modifies objectives if necessary
• Keeps a watching brief on motivation
• Celebrates success

The A-Team!
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• Leadership Situation 2
• Leading the Inexperienced

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Review Leading the Inexperienced

• The leader
• Is visible and authoritative
• Closely supervises beginners
• Coaches intermediates
• Makes all important decisions
• Provides an encouraging atmosphere

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• Leadership Situation 3
• Sudden Major Crisis

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Review The Sudden Major Crisis

• The leader
• barks commands
• gives not a damn about sensitivities
• is decisive
• demands instant compliance

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• Leadership Situation 4
• The Organized Cave Rescue

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Review The Organized Rescue

• The leader
• Is corporate man
• Spends hours in committee meetings
• Has numerous sub-officers
• Runs a bureaucracy
• Is dominated by the need to avoid injury to the
  rescuers

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Summary of Caving Leadership Situations

• Exploration vision revolving leadership
• Beginner trips close supervision, coaching,
  encouragement, authority
• Serious crisis command and obey
• Organized cave rescue corporate man leads a
  bureaucracy

Ps What about no leader?
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When Things go Wrong

• No leadership!

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When Things go Wrong

• Theres an A-team ready to explore.
• Leader applies close supervision and coaching
• Micromanagement! Severely cheesed off A-team.
  Quiet mutiny.

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When Things go Wrong

• Theres an A-team ready to explore.
• Leader applies command and obey
• Instant and noisy mutiny. Punch on nose.

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When Things go Wrong

• Theres an A-team ready to explore.
• Leader applies Corporate Man
• Team wades in treacle. Achieves little. Stars
  drift off to another team

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Beginner Trip

• Leader lets people do their own thing
• people are hurt cave is hurt
• Leader uses command and obey
• Nobody has fun nobody returns
• Leader is corporate man
• Beginners spend so much time filling in forms
  they never go caving

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Sudden Crisis

• Leader lets people do their own thing
• People die
• Leader closely supervises and coaches
• People die
• Leader is corporate man
• People die

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Complex Organized Rescue

• Leader lets people do their own thing
• People dash off madly and get hurt.
• Leader closely supervises and coaches
• The goal is to extract someone safely, not to
  develop skills!
• Leader uses command and obey
• With experts, police, ambulances, and SAR ????

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Ordinary Management Situations

• The leader provides vision and then is not much
  seen, day to day. Is there an experienced,
  self-motivated A-team? Is all going well?
• The leader supervises, coaches, and encourages.
  Is the team comprised of beginners and
  intermediates, and everything running smoothly?
• The leader barks commands. So is it a sudden
  crisis? If not, why is he yelling?
• 4. Corporate-man leader applies heavy
  bureaucracy. Is it essential, then, that
  everything goes according to plan? Is avoidance
  of error more important than productivity?

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The End
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