Crossing the Valley

Valley Crossing Exercise

                                                                           

So, another round of  the POM classes…..

In this class,   the class revolved  around the  Nature of functions and the  Decision Making of an Organisations

                                                      

THE VALLEY CROSSING:::::

One look at the picture , and one feels , hey what is going on….

Through this example we were given one of the  most important lessons of management….

Step wise Analysis of the Valley Crossing Example:

Person	First Person	Second Person	Third Person
Steps:
1	Safe	Safe	Safe
2	Half Risky	Safe	Safe
3	Fully Risky	Safe	Safe
4	Half Risky	Half Risky	Safe
5	Safe	Full Risky	Safe
6	Safe	Half Risky	Half Risky
7	Safe	Safe	Full Risky
8	Safe	Safe	Half Risky
9	Safe	Safe	Safe

Idea behind the whole exercise was to understand the intricacies involved  from designing the task to the execution of the task..

Designing the Task:

1. Safety of  each of the worker

2. Effective execution of the Task’

Safety of the People:

At any given point of time Two  people are fully involved in the task and the third person is in the safe state. If one goes through the entire cycle for this exercise one realises  , each person  was assigned the same amount of task without any difference…

For each Person the state analysis is as:

Safe:- 6

Half Risky -2

Full Risky-1

In that case, there would not be a question of unfair task allocation  , a very important requirement while designing the task.

Effective execution of the task

Role assignment

The beauty of this task lies in the Role assignment and the execution of that role.

Each member at one point of time,   enters   into a role and executes that. The very next moment, a new role is assigned to that member and the other member very easily fits into the role of the other member. This is the real beauty of this Role Switching.  

Irrelevance of Physical Power

Focus of the design Process  , has been the elimination   of the relevance of physical power.

Here, in this design process, the Physical Stamina is not important.

Highlights of This Task

Clear Goal Setting

In this case a clear goal is defined, that is crossing the valley.Any ambiguity in the goal can lead to confusion among the team members proving fatal for the task.

TeamWork

This activity requires all the 3 team members to be in sync with each other.All the 3 people involved have to work as a team to accomplish the end goal:

ie: Crossing the Valley

 

Communication

Good Communication  starts with a clear understanding of the goal. It allows the team members to work towards attaining that goal. The Delivery of the goal depends on the 

                                                                     

                                                                                        Miscommunication  

communication of the team.Any miscommunication from any member of the team can prove fatal for the entire team.