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FAQs

What is unique about Driven to Perform Team Building Experiences?

Driven to Perform (DTP) offers cutting-edge, team building experiences developed by The Richard Petty Driving School and Innolect Inc., an organization effectiveness firm with lead offices in Charlotte, NC (home of NASCAR) and Manhattan. The programs rely on NASCAR racing experiences and help companies unleash their hidden potential to accelerate team goals and business outcomes.

The goal with these programs is to ignite the heart of team performance— by positioning finely-tuned, individual contributions where they are needed most. Winning teams know what magic comes from trained and synchronized perfection when people create an experience where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Ask NASCAR—and, they will tell you that it takes more than putting drivers in cars to win a race.

What is exciting about Driven to Perform?

Hands-on, hi-octane teambuilding experience at the track, in cars, in pit crews-- that excites, challenges, coaches, and celebrates top performance
Real–world racing “know how” applied to real-world business challenges
Innovative methods and learning in new terrain (the track!)—transferable to the workplace
Level playing field for participants that inspires new ideas, thinking, and action
Hands-on opportunities to step-up to measured risk taking to enhance performance according to the “Challenge by Choice” learning philosophy—where an individual receives team support for appropriate risk and challenge
Coaching for teams to own the “whole” outcome in common, propel themselves forward, and find the “best fit” for individual contributions and team success
Custom-designed to address client’s real time situation and achieve specific organizational and team development goals

Briefly, what are the key features and value of DTP?

NASCAR style driving and pit crew experiential learning lab activities
Targeted organizational applications and transfer of learning
Professional organization development consulting and facilitation from design and planning through execution and evaluation
“Challenge by Choice” learning philosophy—individuals discover appropriate levels of risk and performance and team members support one another and manage the achievement of the goal as a whole team
Learning activities designed for a wide range of adult fitness levels
Flexible programming design with opportunities for continued organization development follow-up

What are some of the indirect outcomes to expect from DTP?

Individual risk taking and greater inner knowledge and confidence to act
Reframed understanding of high performance teamwork and what it takes to achieve it
Guided team discussions of key issues and opportunities at work
Team-based decision-making and action planning
Interactions that build deeper working relationships and increased understanding among team members
Increased appreciation for one another and more cohesion as a team
Enhanced individual and team initiative and performance

Why was the concept and theme of Driven to Perform a base for a team building experience?

Driven to Perform was included in the program title to emphasize and build on the successes of inter-disciplinary teams of professionals who have always been achievement oriented, committed, and driven to perform. The overarching content draws out and builds on strengths rather than addresses the ever-present expectation to “fix” weaknesses.

NASCAR is the fastest growing spectator sport in the world. Its success has parallels with highly collaborative cross-functional business processes upon which organizations depend to meet their performance goals. Incorporating motor sports is a natural synergy with:

§ A performance driven corporate identity

§ A results-oriented team culture

§ Use of high-impact experiential learning events

Top-notch facilitation, processing, and partnering will ensure participants import learning from Driven to Perform Team Building Experiences and transfer the learning to their roles in their business environment. Our goal is to inspire client teams with the excitement of NASCAR and to the experiences typically associated with race-day high performance. These activities will be leveraged to help participants think in new ways about performing at a higher degree of execution back on the job.

Why would organizations want to experience team building in NASCAR-based experiences?

Driven to Perform Teambuilding Experiences are relevant to a wide range of organizations that need to accelerate both individual and team performance. Racing is a really a team sport. So, leadership development and team building with racing metaphors seems like a likely connection in several ways such as:

Demands at work for speed and precision
Increasing need for finely sequenced and integrated work processes
High-performance teamwork that requires value from every member of the team
Acceleration of the need for shared resources and learning to accomplish higher quality work

Why is Innolect a natural partner for Driven to Perform?

Innolect is committed to ongoing learning and working collaboratively with both clients and alliance partners—such as Pit Driving and Instruction and The Richard Petty Driving School. Innolect strives to help clients in relevant ways to enhance their opportunities to:

§ Gain creative insights

§ Discover breakthroughs in new market strategies and product development

§ Align people and processes throughout the organization

§ Develop leaders and teams to think out loud and make bold moves

§ Create sustainable workplaces of imagination, integrity, trust, and achievement

Innolect’s consultants are senior leaders and come from many industries. They are drawn to Innolect as a think tank for igniting innovation, action, and teamwork, and seek clients that want the same. (More info later on Innolect…)

To what degree is DTP’s design flexible?

§ Program scope and activities are always based on client objectives—we value the opportunity to increase relevancy for client impact

§ Program can be implemented at any one of 24 speedways across the country—and, at Lowe’s Speedway in Charlotte, NC—the home for NASCAR, Richard Petty Driving School, Pit Instruction and Training, and Innolect

§ Teambuilding principles and strategies are always aligned with the client’s vision, values, and norms

§ Innolect collaborates closely with clients on program content, simulation scenarios, and applications

§ Group sizes can be accommodated range from 5-50 (although larger numbers can be addressed in creative ways)

§ Key note speakers can also be built into the design

§ Total length for both The Richard Petty Driving Experience and The Pit Crew Challenge is typically two days; however, the program can be configured into one day options

What experience does Innolect Inc. bring to DTP?

· Innolect Inc. Associates are experts in organizational design, organizational behavior, and communications

· Recognized for innovative, cost-effective approaches that get results

· Dedicated to building deeper, wiser, more creative workplaces based on a higher degree of integrity

· Seasoned professionals with line, senior staff, and consulting experience

· Experienced at working closely with top organizational leaders

· Knowledgeable of Fortune 500 industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, consumer products, manufacturing, high tech and telecommunications

· Innolect learns more and does their best work when it collaborates with clients and alliance partners; the NASCAR-style pit crew operation challenge and driving experience are managed by the Richard Petty Driving Experience Team, professional NASCAR driving instructors, on all aspects of car operations, handling, and race track management.

Can you tell me a little more about Innolect?

Innolect is an organization effectiveness consulting firm that offers imaginative and compelling training and development approaches that forge the link between individual and total system learning and change. Innolect stimulates a new kind of business intelligence… an Innovative Intelligence-- that helps organizations understand their challenges and opportunities better. Innolect’s approach helps organizations transform themselves into higher performing workplaces and capture new learning. Innolect guides organizations, leaders, and teams to manage change, target results, increase productivity, and work together in deeper, wiser, and more creative ways.

What is unique about Innolect and how do they get results with their clients?

Innolect is recognized for being client-centered and collaborative—using very creative learning experiences to awaken people to new ways of thinking and acting—finding new ways to get better results, finding improved ways to communicate and work together. The goal is always to tap into the imagination of leaders and teams to help them discover creative insights and bold ideas about their customers, themselves, and their organizations. This approach is based on Innolect’s Innovative Intelligence Model that supports risk taking that leads to innovations and solutions that may not have been discovered during business as usual.

What is Innovative Intelligence?

Innovative Intelligence I²(I squared) reflects a unique approach to understanding organizations, the people who work there, and oneself from the inside out. The process follows a path of facilitating a state of curiosity and wonder about various factors that are impacting business. All thoughts are valid and creative insights bubble-up and become solid ideas that lead to risk taking and innovation. Leaders, teams and employees reinvent their ways of thinking, working, creating, achieving, and learning. Decisions and behavior reflect deeper, wiser, more creative, and choices resonating with higher integrity. Innovative Intelligence is reflected in a commitment and process where an organization creates and forges the link between systemic learning and change.

How was Innovative Intelligence developed—is it based on theoretical models?

Innovative Intelligence I²combines a number of organization development (OD), leadership and adult development, business strategies, process methodologies, and fundamental theories on multiple intelligences, learning, and systems thinking. The approach recognizes human ingenuity and offers a way to strengthen organizations by tapping the latent thinking and talent in people to be inventive in discovering new ways to understand a situation.

What are the possible benefits of DTP for organizations—back in the workplace?

· Helps business units achieve revenue goals

· Better understanding about the importance of role clarity and communications

· More closely aligns strategy and tactics

· Vastly improves cross-functional working relationships

· Improves structure to accelerate efficiencies

· Development of deeper, wiser, working relationships

What is The Richard Petty Driving Experience?

The Richard Petty Driving Experience (RPDE) is probably one of the most thrilling experiences anyone could have not only because of all the excitement associated with racing, but also because it allows individuals to find their own zone of optimal performance and be supported by their team members. This is a transferable learning where teams learn to own the goal and results in common. The NASCAR racing experience is brought to life for corporate teams (and, sometimes their customers and alliance partners) through this high-energy and exciting opportunity—when teams win because individuals excel at being expert at their job—no matter what part they play in helping the car cross the finish line.

Yes, it’s about individual skill and performance—but, it is also about teamwork and being as active in learning to support one another’s performance as it is in mastering your own. The Richard Petty Driving School provides driving instructors and Innolect customizes teambuilding experiences with each client to assure that relevant business challenges are linked to learnings from the driving experience. The ongoing learning that stays with teams after the experience is over is that teams become great because of individual contributions and supportive team members. There is a shift from the “star” mentality of earlier sports and business model—and a clear recognition that the star can only perform with the base of contributions and support from others. Like in the theatre—there are no small roles.

With a focus on the NASCAR’s core principles, participants choose their own challenge level of engagement. People have the opportunity to learn behind-the-wheel skills from a professional driving instructor. Whether it’s driving alone for 8 laps following a pace car, riding along with a professional driver for 3 laps, or supporting other team members in their driving challenges, all participants walk away with rich learning experiences. Everyone learns about the complexities of NASCAR racing as they are coached by professional NASCAR driving instructors on car operations, handling, and race track management. Innolect will facilitate individual and team learnings and assist with linking applications to performance at work in addressing key challenges in individual’s roles.

Driving Experience Learning Metaphors and On-the-Job Applications to be Experienced:

Explore and rethink personal mental models and leadership behaviors associated with different types of risk taking
Provide and accept support while building on strengths to achieve personal and team goals
Partner and team to perform at extraordinary levels
Trust the process to achieve performance goals
Debrief and process individual insights and team dynamics

§ Development of deeper, wiser, more collaborative working relationships

What is the Pit Crew Challenge?

The Pit Crew Challenge is an exciting, interactive team building experience, modeled after an on-site program influenced by the Richard Petty Organization and delivered alongside Innolect’s alliance partner Pit Instruction and Training. Your team will be challenged to acquire and utilize the 3 Rules of High Performance Teams just as Pit Crews have been trained to do when competing in NASCAR races. In addition, your team will be introduced to Innolect’s Innovative Intelligence model where you will be guided to experience creative insights that lead to new thinking and ideas, encouraged to take risks that make sense to you, and develop innovative approaches to existing business challenges. Innolect’s model combines with the 3 Rules of High Performance Teams and offers the following:

Clarity - Clarify and focus on what is most important
Collaboration - Collaborate and play to team strengths
Courage – Be courageous and deliberate now to go fast later… and,
Creativity – Unleash your natural, first-guess insights and contribute your ingenuity to your team!

Based on a relevant understanding of what an actual Pit Crew would encounter when working in sync as a team during a NASCAR race, your team begins to tackle the challenges one at a time. There are several ways that your team gains exposure and is invited to act as an real Pit Crew does when responding to split-second and finely integrated performance demands related to your own business and industry.

Participants step into firesuits and pit crew roles (tire handlers, jack handler, and fueling) to learn and demonstrate high-energy teamwork. Participants work in small six-person pit crews and as a large team to race against the clock and competition. Pit crew members manage critical “pit stop” tasks so they can get their car back onto the track as rapidly and safely as possible.

Pit Crew Challenge Learning Metaphors and On-the-Job Applications to be Experienced:

Influence and manage effective task assignments based on perceived strengths of team members
Effectively lead and facilitate team role/task assignment changes
Adopt a learning team mindset and practice associated behaviors
Practice focus within role/task assignments to impact team speed
Explore and practice the power of supportive and encouraging team member leadership
Experience the benefits and natural synergies of high-energy teamwork

What is a good example of typical learning events and design features of DTP?

Ideally, your team donates two days to experience this one-of-a-kind team challenge and you will experience both The Pit Crew Challenge and The Richard Petty Driving Experience. Full throttle energy, excitement, and learning! Most importantly, your team will build on the learning from day one and achieve a solid base of new understanding of what it really takes to get top performance from yourself and your team!

From the very first pre-reading assignment and ice-breaker through the track experiences and stretch learning exercises, participants will deepen their understanding of strength theory (stop fixating on what doesn’t work and be consistent in knowing and using your strengths effectively); and, learn to use appreciative inquiry to help others clarify what they are thinking and deepen the pool of your organization’s new ideas. Learn to ask the questions that nobody is asking. This program liberates both individual and team capacity.

The following is a detailed outline of a 2-Day Program—remember, lots of flexibility. This is a suggested flow and demonstrates the purpose and innovative features intended by each component of the program.

Learning Event	Purpose	Innovative Features
Day 1 Pit Crew Challenge	Learn and demonstrate high-energy teamwork; clarify what’s required of high-speed teams; demonstrate individual strengths and rewards of collaboration	First crew shares learning with second crew (and, so on as more crews exist in your team) to achieve overall fastest time; create kinesthetic memory; unique modeling of synergy
Lunch/Keynote Presentation	Presentation on the complexities of NASCAR industry and impact on the total entertainment sports market; effective partnering within NASCAR R&D, Marketing, and Race Team Operations	Motorsport Expert
Learning Event	Purpose	Innovative Features
Richard Petty Driving Experience	Provide opportunities to set personal challenge goals, identify personal risk-taking quotient, and offer and accept support from others; get participants to rethink mental models	Goals set by individuals after being prepared psychologically with challenge by choice; teams perform by individuals achieving personal goals; team members support others; metaphorical applications to licensing process
Dinner/Social	Deepen understanding of others	Opportunity to debrief track experiences; metaphor contest
Day 2 Sr. Leadership Talks; Experiential Download “Recognizing My Personal Contribution”	Identify and share individual strengths; connect to business process and leadership competencies	Strength theory used to build on successes and connect to organizations leadership competencies
Experiential Download “Unleashing Our Potential as a Team”	Identify and share pit crew experiences and generate Rules of the Road	Appreciative inquiry process used to focus on individual and team strengths; identify success strategies to replicate on any team, such as goal alignment and role clarity
Experiential Download “Working Together to Win”	Identify “norms to win”/Rules of the Road in business process; identify appreciative inquiry questions for use during business process	Apply best practices in appreciative inquiry and team emotional intelligence; take responsibility to operationalize learning
Experiential Download “Putting the Car to the Test”	Create vision of preferred future representative of a sleek, high performing team	Team experience brings learning of past three days “home”
Senior Leadership Recap	Reinforce personal connections and learning; challenge team to live the norms and build upon track learning experiences on the job	Energetic, highly personal close; create alignment with leadership competencies

What are the details of the experiential learning activities?

Challenge learning opportunities allow attendees to participate in a NASCAR “Pit Crew Challenge” and a “Driving Experience”. These are “Challenge by Choice” learning opportunities which means attendees choose and are supported at their own challenge level. Facilitation of team norms, supportive leadership, and new learning on everyone’s part encourages team members to only “Go as far as they can, giving it everything they’ve got”. This is a new kind of support that is all that committed team members can and should expect from one another. The challenge level chosen will and should look different for everyone, and ultimately provides for a powerful, long-lasting learning metaphor—translated to the work place in leveraging individual strengths to create high-performance teams.

Again…why should we be confident that the NASCAR venue is an effective way for us to learn how to improve our individual and team effectiveness?

§ Very few participants of The Richard Petty Driving Experience or The Pit Crew Operations Experience will have participated in this kind of activity. Unlike sailing, group cooking, or challenge courses, we start with a “level playing field” in that the experience is new and unfamiliar for almost everyone. Although this creates more anxiety and questions up front, this factor contributes to new learning for everyone and propels people forward to experience more. (For live, on-site track events, please keep in mind that all activities are extremely safe (millions of miles of experiential driving and NO ACCIDENTS) and on-site events at the track operate with a challenge by choice philosophy.

§ The track trainers and your facilitators will take care to prepare you with information about the cars you will be driving, practice with various driving features or skills (such as shifting a car!), and provide special clothing to make it more comfortable to participate. You may even opt to go on a Ride Along with a driving instructor to get the full impact of how the car works before ever driving one of your own. (Some people in fact choose not to drive their own race cars, and instead experience what 110 mph feels like with a pro at the wheel.) Many of the questions and fears that people naturally encounter as part of this learning are exactly the kinds of tensions that lead to changes in mindset or fresh appreciation for certain aspects of developing a new process at work. In effect, a venue that is unknown and unfamiliar by most or all participants produces the greatest opportunity for personal and group learning!

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