[EWCP] 10-16-11 Cast - Building a Sustainable Team

[rsisk]

Is there such a thing as a pulse/rythmn to the life cycle of a team? For example

1st year - awesome
2nd year - find out you are not really awesome
3rd year - Realize your doomed if you don't do something
4th year - Barely made it
5th year - team begins to rebuild
6th year - ... well you get the idea.

[MattC9]

What time is this going to go down?

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by MattC9

What time is this going to go down?

Gosh dangit. I'll get the hang of this down eventually (or write a template)


The show is a 9pm (EST)

[JackS]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Gosh dangit. I'll get the hang of this down eventually (or write a template)


The show is a 9pm (EST)

The cast should start on time this week. Unlike previous casts, the first 15 minutes will *not* be Dustin giggling like a school girl.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by JackS

The cast should start on time this week. Unlike previous casts, the first 15 minutes will *not* be Dustin giggling like a school girl.

That's my favorite part of the casts. On a serious note, we should just record Dustin giggling like a school girl and offer it as a ringtone.

[rsisk]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

That's my favorite part of the casts. On a serious note, we should just record Dustin giggling like a school girl and offer it as a ringtone.

I can haz for my ringtone?

[Andrew Schreiber]

Cast will be live at http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/98466

[thefro526]

Had a blast doing the cast tonight.

The recording will be up soon.

[PayneTrain]

Did the show actually stay on topic?

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Did the show actually stay on topic?

If the topic was Dustin giggling... yes. Yes it did.

[PayneTrain]

He brought up team 25 which brought up memories of losing to them all the time, so I just suppressed the last two hours of my memory.

[Basel A]

Stayed on topic surprisingly well! All of the last 3 casts have stayed under an hour, which has been nice. Nice and informative as usual, too.

[Boydean]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Is there such a thing as a pulse/rythmn to the life cycle of a team? For example

1st year - awesome
2nd year - find out you are not really awesome
3rd year - Realize your doomed if you don't do something
4th year - Barely made it
5th year - team begins to rebuild
6th year - ... well you get the idea.

Wow! I never realized that, but it makes perfect sense. Our team followed the trend; 1st year - awesome, 2nd year - wish this was like the 1st year, 3rd year - maybe we aren't cut out for this. Unfortunately we didn't make it past the 3rd year, but I can only imagine that the 4th year is the hardest — likely most of the original students are gone at this point.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Is there such a thing as a pulse/rythmn to the life cycle of a team? For example

1st year - awesome
2nd year - find out you are not really awesome
3rd year - Realize your doomed if you don't do something
4th year - Barely made it
5th year - team begins to rebuild
6th year - ... well you get the idea.

One hundred thousand percent correct. IMHO, the focus should be on helping the teams in years 3-4 as much as rookie teams. There are definite doldrums in those formative years.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Cast is available for download at http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-98466/TS-548226.mp3

Or for streaming at: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web...48226&cmd=apop