In Season 2's escape room, "The Entrepreneur Trap (Part 2)", five members of the escape team completed the challenge of a high-altitude suspension bridge.

Although at first, when faced with the almost impossible light maintenance channel (high-altitude suspension bridge), everyone became timid and shied away from each other, but with collective wisdom and individual efforts, accompanied by hilarious words and deeds, In the end, I defeated myself, conquered my fear, and completed the challenge of crossing the bridge.

This issue of the high-altitude suspension bridge challenge once again made the escape group's soul arouse. After the challenge was successful, people were passionate and the hearts of the people were excited.

As a viewer, especially a team manager, I must have a lot of feelings about this session.

Because what managers see is the management inspiration brought to us by TM (Team Management) team management. Let’s review and reflect together to gain management insights and growth.

Plot review

The entire high-altitude suspension bridge challenge can be divided into 4 reviews:

First, psychological reaction.

When facing a new challenging task, especially a task that is clearly visible and that most people can self-estimate the process, your and my psychological reactions are the same or similar.

Therefore, this mental and physical high-altitude suspension bridge challenge is destined to scare everyone at first.

However, people with different personalities express themselves in different ways. Some people say it directly, such as Da Zhangwei, Guo Qilin, and Yang Mi, while some people are calm on the surface and don’t say anything, but they don’t know what they mean. .

Second, decrypt the safety clothing.

Face the challenge, look for hints, and discover safety clothing, but it requires a password to unlock it.

This link is a regular decryption question in escape programs and can be solved quickly. The escape group is already familiar with the familiarity aspect.

Third, challenge and exploration stage.

This part contains two explorations. The first phase of exploration failed, and the second phase of exploration succeeded.

The first phase mainly includes two explorations by Deng Lun and Huang Minghao. When discussing who should be the first to go first, Deng Lun, a veteran escaper, took the initiative to volunteer and had the courage to take the lead.

Deng Lun’s first exploration was based on psychological fear and bottomless exploration. The key was to discover that the exploration failed when his legs were not long enough when he took the first step.

So, based on the results of his exploration, Huang Minghao, who believed that his legs were not long enough and his height was not enough, carried out a second exploration.

Although Huang Minghao took the first step, he encountered greater psychological challenges when he took the second step. The difficulty increased sharply, and he had to return, and the exploration failed.

The second phase of exploration was still initiated by Deng Lun.

After a short rest, adjustment, and observing Huang Minghao's exploration process, Deng Lun struck again. This time, he adjusted his starting strategy and took the first step by hanging a rope with both hands, successfully completing the first three steps of exploration.

The exhaustion of physical strength caused Deng Lun to pause his progress and encountered the second difficulty - how to continue moving forward even though his physical strength was exhausted.

At this moment, Da Zhangwei made suggestions to Deng Lun based on the experience he learned from participating in past adventure programs: release your hands and trust the protection of the safety rope.

Here, the key to this challenging project is truly found. Deng Lun also successfully completed his second "exploration" and successfully prepared samples for other members of the escape group.

Fourth, challenge stages in sequence.

In this part, inspired by Deng Lun's successful passing, Guo Qilin, Yang Mi, Da Zhangwei, and Huang Minghao successively learned from experience, surpassed themselves, and completed the challenge based on the previous person's completion.

There are several highlights that need to be noted:

Although Guo Qilin still experienced psychological fear in the process of passing the test, he no longer had the initial fear. The feeling of complete terror at the sight of the suspension bridge.

At the starting end, there was Da Zhangwei who gave guidance. Squat down, trust the safety rope, take advantage of the height difference, leisurely pass by, and successfully reach the midpoint of the suspension bridge. At the other end, Deng Lun showed him how to overcome the distance problem and reach the finish line.

Da Zhangwei’s passing process was a personal breakthrough process in his life. It is real, full of tears and laughter, and also feels the joy of breakthrough success.

Huang Minghao’s last challenge can be said to be a quick and perfect life experience after absorbing the experience of his predecessors and giving full play to his own strengths. Completed the level in 90 seconds, setting a new record for the fastest level.

Management reflection

There are many similar offline development training projects for the high-altitude suspension bridge challenge project. Development training projects are more suitable for team building, so they are often used to train and cultivate team spirit and enhance the integration of team members.

The key to the completion of every expansion project comes from the feelings and sharing after the experience, as well as the final breakthrough in ideological cognition. In the same way, the escape from the high-altitude suspension bridge challenge can bring at least four major reflections to each team manager, guide team management, and provide corresponding reference.

Reflection 1: The difficulty design of the suspension bridge is similar to the tasks at work.

In the structural design of the entire suspension bridge, there are only three narrow pedals, located in the front, middle and rear sections, for rest and adjustment.

Similar to the three time review nodes in work tasks.

Tell managers that for each project task, the effective management process requires setting corresponding review nodes to examine the completion progress and the progress of meeting the standards.

The difficulty design of the entire suspension bridge includes three difficulties, namely the psychological fear before departure, the first three steps, and the longest distance span after the midpoint.

Tell managers that everything is difficult at the beginning, and getting off to a good start is the first key. Taking the first three steps of the task well, quickly discovering problems, and collecting experience are the second keys to smoothly completing the task. There will be challenges before you succeed, so don't be too happy too early. Only by perseverance can you usher in the final victory.

Reflection 2: The process of team challenge is also the process of team learning and growth.

There is always a need for capable and responsible people to take on the first challenge.

Then, everyone participates in the process, and the process of participation is not about complaining, shirk, or publishing negative information.

The key is for everyone to observe and learn, discover opportunities for success, and encourage each other. Everyone learns and understands how to grow and progress based on the explorations of predecessors. Managers must know how to summarize experience, promote experience, and transcend experience.

Reflection 3: When building a team, we should pay attention to complementary abilities and complementary experiences.

The program team also did a lot of thinking and selection in choosing the five members of the escape team to ensure that the difficulty of the director's project team who proposed the questions could not be too low, and also ensured that the answers were Escape members challenge a certain degree of difficulty.

In fact, in our management practice, team building is still the same. The best team is not necessarily the strongest team, but only complementary capabilities, complementary experiences, complementary roles, complementary genders, etc. Only a complementary team can exert the strongest combat effectiveness.

Reflection 4: How to view the team captain and the role he plays.

If you look at this high-altitude suspension bridge challenge alone, Da Zhangwei, as the captain at the beginning, must not be considered a competent captain. All the negative words that should not be said by the captain, and all the negative behaviors that should not be the captain's behavior, are all reflected in him.

But sometimes, in reality, we often look at people with conventional eyes, and there will be times when we look at people in the wrong way, and a captain or manager who seems to be incompetent, because we Impatience and short-sightedness often destroy a good manager. The key to the success of this team challenge is precisely the key idea and strategy proposed by Da Zhangwei: release your hands and trust your safety rope.

At the same time, it also gives managers a reminder that maybe managers are not always top-notch in ability. When you encounter abilities that you are not good at, how can you use the manager’s command and leadership? The guiding role, leveraging strengths and avoiding weaknesses, and achieving breakthroughs are worthy of consideration by every manager. Sometimes, it is easy to know the whole truth, but it is extremely difficult to practice the true meaning of this truth.

Some people say that life is like a game, and games are like life. Regardless of life or work, for every manager, a famous saying from the ancients can be borrowed: Insight into worldly affairs is knowledge, and understanding of people is knowledge. Management is all around us, so it originates from practice, is higher than practice, and finally returns to practice. This is management!

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