Example Reflection – Visualization

Challenge

A long time ago there was a problem in a soccer team that I use to lead, no matter

how hard we tried we never get work well together to win the games. Despites we

had great players with amazing skills, most of us coudn’t understand the role we

have to play on the field. Half of them tried to play at zones that they didn’t behove,

leaving their zones uncovered. At the same time, there was two players that didn’t

play the role that best fits their habilites, making troubles between the team.

Finally, the fact of losing games triggered on the players whose motivation was on

the ground, making impossible the synergy to win games and championships.

Selection

The tool I chose to fix the team’s course was the visualization, learned at the last

sesion of the course Desing Thinking for Innovation, because it allowed me to show

graphically the role that each player was able to perform, avoiding distortions that

can be generated when the cognitive process of each of them starts to get in.

Application

To carry out my mission, first I analized each one of the habilities, preferences and

personalities of my players, so, I enlisted the different roles which are played on the

field and I describe the functions of each role. After that I delimited the several areas

of the field and I assigned a role to each player to serve in that space to be in.

Finally, I matched up all the valuables and assigned each player with his role field

zone and function that had to play.

To synthesize this information and make it more pleasant for everybody for

understanding, I decided to put in schematics. This could be visualized clear and

simple on the field the roles of the players, such as the areas that have to serve.

Coupled with this I make another schematic that was given personally to each player,

in this schematic was shown the photo of each of them, their role, the area that have

to serve on the field and the functions that have to play. In addition to this and as a

way of feedback I gave them some graphics of their playing time, performance, goals

score, goal assists, among others. The graphics include a histogram, two pie chart,

a scatter plot and a pictogram.

Insight

One shared and explained the schematics, we played a game that weekend, the

changes was notorius. Each player showed more motivation and improved their

function, the team acted with synergy, there was a fellowship enviroment and a lot

of laughs. Later, during the sesion, the players increase exponentially, they managed

to focus their great skills to achieve the common goal, there was not doubts or intern

conflicts, instead some of the players had the conffidence to express their ideas and

propouse strategies to improve the team skills; including the two players that wanted

to play in different roles had the opportunity to do it. In addition, a rotation of roles

was achieved during the game, in which one player left his area to joining the attack,

but in turn another of the players replased him for the duration of the play, to finally

turn back to their original positions.

On that season, we made it to the final game and thaks to the sum of our efforts and

the right canalization of the individual skills of each player, we achieved to win the

championship.

Approach

I considered that the tool I use was the most successful, because I had a very diverse

team of players, with different goals and life approaches, therefore it was going to

be very difficult to explain the same idea to every one and quite possibly it was going

to generate a distortion during the process. Thus, the visualization tool, helped me

to unify everything I wanted to express in such a way that it was quick and easy to

say and was also so forcefull to be well reflected in each player.

I´m very satisfaced with the results and I think that the change what notorius, the

only thing I would change the next time, it would be to put in acction this tool from

the begining, because it took me more than half a season to make my players collate

and focus their efforts to reach the common goal.


Example Reflection – Visualization Challenge A long time ago there was a problem in a soccer team that I use to lead , no matter how hard we tried we never get work well together to win the games . Despites we had great players with amazing skills , most of us coudn’t understand the role we have to play on the field . Half of them tried to play at zones that they did n’t behove , leaving their zones uncovered . At the same time , there was two players that did n’t play the role that best fits their habilites , making troubles between the team . Finally , the fact of losing games triggered on the players whose motivation was on the ground , making impossible the synergy to win games and championships . Selection The tool I chose to fix the team ’s course was the visualization , learned at the last sesion of the course Desing Thinking for Innovation , because it allowed me to show graphically the role that each player was able to perform , avoiding distortions that can be generated when the cognitive process of each of them starts to get in . Application To carry out my mission , first I analized each one of the habilities , preferences and personalities of my players , so , I enlisted the different roles which are played on the field and I describe the functions of each role . After that I delimited the several areas of the field and I assigned a role to each player to serve in that space to be in . Finally , I matched up all the valuables and assigned each player with his role field zone and function that had to play . To synthesize this information and make it more pleasant for everybody for understanding , I decided to put in schematics . This could be visualized clear and simple on the field the roles of the players , such as the areas that have to serve . Coupled with this I make another schematic that was given personally to each player , in this schematic was shown the photo of each of them , their role , the area that have to serve on the field and the functions that have to play . In addition to this and as a way of feedback I gave them some graphics of their playing time , performance , goals score , goal assists , among others . The graphics include a histogram , two pie chart , a scatter plot and a pictogram . Insight One shared and explained the schematics , we played a game that weekend , the changes was notorius . Each player showed more motivation and improved their function , the team acted with synergy , there was a fellowship enviroment and a lot of laughs . Later , during the sesion , the players increase exponentially , they managed to focus their great skills to achieve the common goal , there was not doubts or intern conflicts , instead some of the players had the conffidence to express their ideas and propouse strategies to improve the team skills ; including the two players that wanted to play in different roles had the opportunity to do it . In addition , a rotation of roles was achieved during the game , in which one player left his area to joining the attack , but in turn another of the players replased him for the duration of the play , to finally turn back to their original positions . On that season , we made it to the final game and thaks to the sum of our efforts and the right canalization of the individual skills of each player , we achieved to win the championship . Approach I considered that the tool I use was the most successful , because I had a very diverse team of players , with different goals and life approaches , therefore it was going to be very difficult to explain the same idea to every one and quite possibly it was going to generate a distortion during the process . Thus , the visualization tool , helped me to unify everything I wanted to express in such a way that it was quick and easy to say and was also so forcefull to be well reflected in each player . I´m very satisfaced with the results and I think that the change what notorius , the only thing I would change the next time , it would be to put in acction this tool from the begining , because it took me more than half a season to make my players collate and focus their efforts to reach the common goal .