Four Leadership Rule of Sailing

Leadership education is essential in all aspects of life, whether it is related to handling a team of employees in an organization or protecting many passengers in a boat on a sailing adventure — all greatly impacting the life of a leader.

While all leadership skills give a leader experience forever, the abandonment of a sailing boat provides a reflection of the deep-toned end. Yes, it provides!

With windy weather, tides to battle with, navigation to watch or overlook, and an overpowered boat to control like scary situations leaves a leader with an exciting experience. In the same way as running with sufficient speed during the course of Whitsundays sailing adventure and taking care of every passenger sitting there, it is important for a leader.

Most leaders are not aware of the leadership skills and rules that need to be followed and thus met with unexpected circumstances during sailing. In this blog, we will highlight “four essential rules and tips that will help every leader. Keep reading below.”

My sailing instructor explained the four rules of sailing as follows:

Put people in the boat
Keep the water out of the boat
Don’t kill anyone
You want to look good

Let’s look at some of the leadership skills required to follow these rules and easily guide (guide) your team to success.

1. Keep the People in the Boat — On the Team

Take care of your people.Ensure that their basic physical requirements are being met.

Maintain a safe and secure work environment, treat everyone with respect and dignity, create an environment of empowerment and creativity to build confidence and self-esteem and allow them to develop emotionally, spiritually and morally, Gives meaning and purpose to them.

Maintain continuous training and life-long learning opportunities to improve personal expertise and skills that contribute to organizational and personal philosophy.

Create a meaningful identity program that instils confidence and creativity. Enable promotion route for those super-players with recognised abilities.

In short, a leader values ​​each team member who keeps a boat sailing for its intended purpose and overall mission for success.

2. Keep water out of the boat — protect them
Stop conflicting leadership from sources that disrupt the team and question the leader’s intent and legitimacy.

Support them, go to bat for them, take steps to build the trust and confidence of the team member who says, “I believe you made the right decision and you are working for the good of the team Huh.”

Motivate them to establish a personal and spiritual connection for you, the leader and the team. Make them feel like a valuable member of the organization.

Help them solve personal problems that inhibit their total focus on team vision and purpose. Take an interest in their life and their well being.

3. Don’t Kill Anyone — Conflict Resolution
Conflict that is not of conflict is unresolved.

Leadership must be willing and able to resolve conflicts, regardless of the magnitude of the problem.

Leaders need to be skilled at building relationships with empathy, a caring attitude about personal success and professional development.

Build team accountability practices that enable individual team members to resolve internal conflicts. Resolving disruptive issues at minimum level.

Leadership requires a keen eye for the disruption of team members’ personal lives that interferes with their ability to perform at high levels of success.

4. You Have to Look Good — Professional Appearance
External perception is extremely important for the overall team success. Feeling good is beyond the physical appearance of team members.

Looking good means that your business presence is sharp, clean and hygienic. Team presence introduces a professional customer service attitude that enhances team capabilities to meet customer needs.

It extends to your physical plant, indicating to the customer your team and organizational pride.

Each team member looks good because they feel that the organization is an extension of themselves — their pride, their professionalism and their desire to deliver top notch customer servic