Shared Leadership Meets The Cannon Beach Sandcastle Contest
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In mid-June, The Canoe Group and friends spent a weekend on the Oregon Coast. We entered a team in the annual Cannon Beach Sandcastle Contest. We loved being with our friends and we built this totally cool and totally transitory thing. We learned a lot together.
The shared leadership of the sandcastle building was a fascinating thing. We had a scale model of Crater Lake, built out of white modeling clay from images captured from Google Earth (see the world from any place and angle). And we had photos and drawings and a gridded site map. The high level vision was set but none of the details… and definitely no job descriptions.
Clay model of Sandcastle
We were a team of four women and four men. Our team’s natural leadership style was “I’m just going to go ahead and do what I think needs to be done next.” Because we knew collaborating was key, our approach meant we were all not only working, but also continually scoping and commenting on each other’s efforts and choices. “I like that” got said a lot. Also, “do you need help?” Because we were working side-by-side in a 21 x 21 foot square plot this approach pretty much flowed.
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