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How to Improve Your Team - PPT Presentation

Gabe Salas Team 233 Stephen McKinney Team 987 With Ty Tremblay and Evan Morrison from GameSense What this Presentation is NOT 7 Tips on How to be Like 1114 You Wont Believe 4 Being among the greatest is a long difficult process ID: 709704

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Slide1

How to Improve Your Team

Gabe Salas, Team 233Stephen McKinney, Team 987With Ty Tremblay and Evan Morrison from GameSenseSlide2

What this Presentation is NOT

“7 Tips on How to be Like 1114! (You Won’t Believe #4)”Being among the greatest is a long, difficult process

 focus on being better instead of “The Best”

See the history of Team 971Slide3

Goal Setting

Plan your goals as a teamClearlyConciselyAttainable

What is success for your team?

Robot performance

Winning a particular award (Chairman’s, Safety, design)

Making it to playoffsSlide4

Goal Setting

Setting a goal of winning CMP Chairman’s is probably too high at the start987’s Road to the Hall of FameDid not begin with winning Chairman’s in mind

Goals start smaller, locally

Winning regionally can inspire you to reach higher, and expand your team’s reachSlide5

Goal Setting

Start by picking an objective you think you can achieve and do itBuild confidence and experience before taking big leaps and stretch goalsSlide6

Setting Expectations

Rome wasn’t built in a dayIt will take time to make great improvementsIf you aim high, expect it to take a long time to implementSlide7

Setting Expectations

Dragging vs. PushingEnsure the team as a whole wants to go the direction the team is goingIs this a goal the team wants?

If not, take a step back and punt

Constantly examine and reevaluate progress

Students or mentors can drag the other along

Excited students can move mentors out of their comfort zoneSlide8

Right Think, Right Build, Right Do

Evaluate your capabilities before you buildDetermine what is possible, what is nice to have, and what you must do

Work within your means (not just with robot building!)

Set your goals before you see the game, and reevaluate after you see the gameSlide9

Right Think, Right Build, Right Do

Good robots can be built without lots of manufacturing or people resourcesIterative design does not require lots of money (see BTL Episode on Prototyping)

Have a team structure set-up to pass along knowledge year to yearSlide10

Does Money Really Make the World Go Round?

Great teams are not great because of money, they have money because they are great at what they do!

There are many foundations to a great FRC team that require no money

Organization

Mentors

Training team membersSlide11

Does Money Really Make the World Go Round?

Money is a tool like anything else. 987 won a world championship in 2007 on a budget under $20,000

Use resources you already have

Find them; parents, students, school, existing sponsors

Ex: Use your new machining sponsor for a great manipulator and not a drivetrain. Use the

kitbot

insteadSlide12

Does Money Really Make the World Go Round?

Use goal setting and planning to increase your fundraisingShow sponsors you have a plan and where you are going – they love to see impact!

Asking for more is easy if you can show you are succeeding

Combine outreach, sponsors searching, and other activities

Do what you are doing now, but better; you don’t need a revolutionary change to improve bit by bitSlide13

Red Herrings

Many things great teams do give them small edges, not make them greatDetermine what your team really needs to do to improveDO NOT blindly copy aspects of the best teamsSlide14

Red Herrings

Example: Scouting SystemsAll the bells and whistles can take a lot of resourcesWhat do you need to do to succeed at an event? Is all that data needed?

Solution: base your system on only what you need to know based on your robot/team

You can do it if you want; understand the consequences (reduced resources elsewhere)Slide15

Red Herrings

Example: Custom drivetrainZero engineering time is required to be 90% effective as top teamsKitbot is really that good most of the timeSlide16

Red Herrings

Is Einstein really your team’s goal?Not everyone has to aim to win the World ChampionshipUse the district system to your advantage (if applicable)

Try setting a goal for DCMP, or playing on Saturday at all your eventsSlide17

Summary

Improvement is a year-over-year projectSet goals to give your team focusHow does your team define its success?

Make sure your goals are attainable

You need something else to build on

Do what you need to do in order to achieve these goals

Fundraise, network, recruit, market

Evaluate and reflect

Did you achieve your goals?

How can you do better next time?