The Rowers' Code dramatically portrays one company's intense team-building experience and presents a simple, actionable set of truths about teamwork and communication that can be applied to every workplace scenario to supercharge performance.
The book mirrors more than a decade of successful workshops, giving anyone who reads it a taste of what is is like to be part of a highly functioning team.
The 7 principles of The Rowers' Code offer a blueprint to help you build a culture of greatness.
The book will teach you how to:
Gain team commitment
Acknowledge your strengths and the strengths of your peers
Define responsibility and accountability
Attain organizational and self awareness
Develop situational awareness
Trust in yourselves and others to lead
Maintain integrity and ownership for issues
The Rowers' Code brings to life the authors' unique perspective on organizational team-building, drawing on proven, real-world results.
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"The Rowers' Code suggests a new set of behaviors to help every team and workgroup overcome its greatest challenges and achieve critical goals, offering a powerful blueprint to build the right culture to ensure unprecedented and critical team efficiency." --Jon Gordon, Wall Street Journal best-selling author of The Energy Bus and Soup
"There is no better way to learn about alignment then learning how to row as a team, and from from my point of view, alignment is the key to a high performance enterprise. The Rowers' Code can help you succeed in an increasingly competitive landscape. " --Mark F. Rockefeller, Rockefeller Consulting/Insight Capitalists
"Marilyn Krichko led a strategic planning retreat with my team at Livestrong using The Rowers' Code. Not only did it help us identify priorities and direction, but her session also provided a great opportunity for team building." --Doug Ulman, president and CEO, Livestrong
"Every leadership team member needs to deploy The Rowers' Code!" --Michael A. Muchnicki, president and CEO, Sterling Life Insurance
From the Author
Teamwork is the heartbeat of every successful organization. I invite you to get in the boat with me and expierience The Rowers' Code principles first hand as you apply them to your life and your team.
There are two things you need to know to get started on your journey to success:
"I believe in people. I believe that what we do and what we don't do matters. People don't follow words, people follow people. Every day challenges us to greatness. I invite you to get in the boat with me and step up to the challenge of the Rowers' Code - together we can power up for success!" - Marilyn Krichko - The Rowers' Code Author, Speaker and Consultant
Visit us at: www.rowerscode.com
In 1998 Marilyn Krichko founded The OARS Program teambuilding company (now Criterion Consulting Solutions). During the next decade she developed and trademarked The Rowers' Code, which is the foundation for all of The Rowers' Code teambuilding programs today. Marilyn's business experience includes responsibility for worldwide strategy and marketing programs, IT solution's delivery, process improvement and executive/team development - working both in the USA and abroad in intense multilingual, multinational environments, requiring extensive teamwork and collaboration. Marilyn received her undergraduate degree in marketing and MBA from the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida and holds a certificate in Total Quality Management from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. When not at work, Marilyn enjoys rowing, cycling and cross-country skiing. She lives with her family in Seattle, WA.
Jane Rollinson is a well known leader in the healthcare industry, with over has over 25 years of senior management experience. She has had responsibility for local, national and international operations with the position of CFO, COO, President, Vice President and Chief Executive, as well as, consulting with foreign governments on healthcare issues. Jane's accomplishments include business start ups, growth and turnarounds. Her last executive position before joining Criterion Consulting Solutions was as a corporate turnaround specialist at Unitedhealthcare. Jane sits on for profit and several not for profit boards. Jane's extensive experience in finance, management, marketing and organizational development helps her build teams and focus them on executing the requirements for unprecedented business success. Jane and her husband, Brad, a PGA golf professional, and her son Christian reside in Ponte Vedra Beach Florida.
The Rower's Code by Marilyn Krichko with Jane Rollinson is a must read for anyone who works with others in any situation. Think of your Sunday School leadership team, your co-workers, the non-profit organization you donate time to, all of these organizations can benefit from the lessons taught in this fun, easy to read book.
Marilyn has tapped a very useful analogy to present the real core of any team -- RELATIONSHIP.
I can't wait to get my team off the bus and into the boat!
Marilyn Krichko has written an accessible story of team building in "The Rowers' Code". The book can be easily read in a trans-continental flight and yet the message will stay with the reader for a long time. Team building is about relationships and this small book gives enough different types of relationships and personality types for any person you might have on your team. The story format makes the book much easier to read than the usual "preachy" management how-to book. The summary and key concepts at the end of each chapter make the points of the chapters easy to digest and retain. And the appendices make the book much more valuable for putting into practice. I know I will use the team building lessons for my individual management team and I trust it will benefit you, too!
