The 2010 Winter Games begin today and all eyes are on Vancouver. After going to the Calgary Flames game last night I starting thinking about the hockey teams. Currently most players are still playing for their NHL teams. They aren’t practicing together, they aren’t building team camaraderie. The Canadian Olympic Hockey team has 23 players from 14 teams, and that is just Canada.
Olympic Hockey Teams are like Conference Teams.
We assemble a team that comes together at the last minute to put out a great effort and deliver results. We don’t practice together ahead of time.
As Managers we assemble the best team, much like coaches:
As conference organizers we pull together the best of the best to highlight during our conference. We have keynotes as our starting line-up. These are the people who are going to kick our event off right.
Everybody has their job and we expect them to do it to the best of their ability:
The Olympic Hockey teams rely on the players to be the best defenceman they can be, for the goalie to block the shots, for the forwards to score the goals. It doesn’t matter that they haven’t worked together for months. They are the best hockey players in our country and we want them to go do what they do best. We expect the same from our speakers – come and do your best at our event and share your knowledge with our attendees.
Work together as a team:
Even though we haven’t practiced together, or come together before the conference. If everyone does their part, and does it well, our conference will be a gold medal winner. When the AV team rocks, and the chef is amazing, and the speakers are great – even though we all come from different teams and haven’t worked together before – we can pull off amazing things.
We need to work together and we will accomplish great things. (Go Team Canada!)
