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A focused leadership yields results In this review we can read an interesting story about leadership and sailing. Interpersona has been coaching the Finnish skipper Eero Lehtinen and his 18-member crew on leadership and building up team spirit on the 72-foot yacht SAIC La Jolla, participating in the Global Challenge 2004-05 yacht race around the world. The story is worth reading even for those who are not interested in yachting or any other competitive sports. There are certain features and factors that affect the leadership of a team representing different nationalities, regardless of whether we are talking about a work community or some other group. Even the tools of success are similar to a great extent. For success there is one thing that is absolutely necessary, though: one must be totally and firmly devoted to the leadership. The coaching conversations I had with Eero during Global Challenge have clearly shown that he takes his challenge seriously also when it comes to the development of the leadership. All things that come up are important and the problems are not solved cynically but with actions. Results are yielded with a goal-directed work. But - just as in business – new challenges are ahead and the competitors have without doubt done their best to improve their own performance. It is not possible to rest on one’s laurels. The leadership and the development of one’s own activity must be on the agenda in every single moment. If you are interested in following the different legs of the yacht race more intensely, it is worth visiting the official website of the race www.globalchallenge2004. com as well as the website of Eero Lehtinen’s own crew www.teamsaic.com. The Interpersona Saic La Jolla web page will be updated in the end of July. Mats Kockberg Coach for Eero Lehtinen and Team SAIC La Jolla Corporate Adviser, President of INTERPERSONA Oy INTERPERSONA Ab • Uudenmaankatu 17 B • 00120 HELSINKI • puhelin 020 741 9570 • telefax 020 741 9571 email: interpersona@interpersona.fi • http://www.interpersona.fi 2
Interpersona is going to assist the Finnish skipper Eero Lehtinen in the Global Challenge 2004-2005 yacht race Interpersona has reached an agreement on co-operation with the Finnish skipper Eero Lehtinen, who is participating at the Global Challenge 2004-2005 yacht race around the world. According to this agreement Interpersona is going to survey the whole international crew of Lehtinen’s yacht SAIC La Jolla. This survey will examine every member of the crew regarding their natural talent and team work ability as well as look for possible risks of conflict. In case of problems at sea which might ask for outside help, Eero Lehtinen can discuss the situation in his own language on the satellite phone with Mats Kockberg, Lehtinen’s coach and leadership expert. On 3 October the starting shot for the yacht race will go off in Portsmouth. Eero Lehtinen is an experienced ocean-racing yachtsman and is now the first Finnish paid skipper in Global Challenge. more or less on the right course, already starting from day 1, instead person issues and co-operation are going to offer a much greater challenge. During the legs of five weeks the hygiene is reduced to levels of the zoo, the temperature is more favourable for skiing than for sailing and in the worst case everybody is doubting whether we are going to live through this experience or not? Eero Lehtinen describes how important the agreement of co-operation is for the whole project: - The greatest challenge in the whole race will be to join together the rather large crew in demanding circumstances. It is not going to be a problem to keep the yacht moving at a reasonable speed In this kind of working surroundings Eero appreciates the existence of a personal coach and adviser. - Mats Kockberg and Interpersona are going to be a prop and stay of uttermost importance as the race proceeds. The help of an outside expert often easily resolves the inevitable person issues and perhaps urgent situations of conflict. When analyzing the situation an outside expert is able to remove the emotional aspects and the prestige issues. As the experienced yachtsman he is, Mats can also understand the circumstances and all the factors that might burden the crew during the longer legs. - I believe that this is going to be a giving and fruitful co-operation, hopefully we’re not going to be in touch on a daily basis, though, Eero Lehtinen says. Global Challenge 2004-2005 is a yacht race around the world “the wrong way” around, with 12 identical yachts participating with a non-professional crew led by a professional skipper. In spite of all the traditional yachting recommendations the route goes “the wrong way” around in the following matter: starting from Buenos Aires the yachts sail due south to Kap Horn and from there continue west towards the hard winds and currents of the Southern Ocean. The Global Challenge yacht race around the world was launched in 1992 by the legendary yachting figure Sir Chay Blyth, who during the years 1970-71 was the first solo yachtsman to sail non-stop the wrong way around the world. This year’s race is the fourth in order. Since the race was launched the starting point has Oy INTERPERSONA Ab • Uudenmaankatu 17 B • 00120 HELSINKI • puhelin 020 741 9570 • telefax 020 741 9571 email: interpersona@interpersona.fi • http://www.interpersona.fi 3
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