What about the skipper? They are the client and a participant at once.
One of the trickiest configurations, and we raise it openly at the outset. A session in which everyone says only what the owner wants to hear is time thrown away.
One of the trickiest configurations, and we raise it openly at the outset. A session in which everyone says only what the owner wants to hear is time thrown away.
Hybrid, like almost everything we do. Ashore we work on roles, communication and decision paths, because for that a quiet room and a table beat twenty degrees of heel. On board we test whether it holds under pressure. Between and after, the support runs digitally. Whether we sail with you depends on availability and on […]
Because a crew is more than the sum of its sailors. What you are buying is not the individual head, it is what happens between the heads. A nervous tactician infects the calmest helm; a frantic bow tears up the best tactics.
The shared rhythm. A crew that works well together has a shared resting pulse, and that can be trained like the trim of the boat. A crew wins not with the fastest boat, but with the calmest radio traffic on board.
Yes: three roles, three tasks. The helm and the skipper carry the weight of decision and must not unload it onto the crew. The tactician and the navigator decide on incomplete information and have to let the decision go afterwards instead of dwelling on it. The crew on the sheets and the bow live on […]
Five occasions: Start stress. We can’t get our horsepower onto the start line. The mistake that tips the race. One fumble costs us not a boat length but the whole race. The newly assembled crew. We are strong individually but not yet a team. Conflict on board. It isn’t the wind slowing us down, it’s […]
No. We work on the shared zero point, not on questions of blame. Anyone leaving a session with a list of accusations has been given the opposite of what we do.