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Record Managment is teamwork

Not everybody might have noticed but the last few weeks many countries have but turned up side down since they are competing in the world cup football (soccer for the Americans). People are taking days off and calling in sick to be able to see the matches. Here in the Netherlands whole streets are turned orange in support of the national team, during match days the street are silent until one of the teams score with the resulting cheers or moans flowing out of every window. And now I have to admit that this for most people will not be an officious link to Record Management, but as so many times in life there are more comparisons than you might imagine at first glance. We are talking about a team of players that is collected from many different teams and countries to combine into one national team in order to win this cup. All of them are professionals in their field but each one has their own specialty, strengths and weaknesses. However they still have to work together to make it to the finals. Many of them might know each other but they have not truly worked together or at least not for some time. They have to get to know each other and this takes time to grow, until they almost blindly know where to expect the other player to make a pass. There is a lot of training that takes place before each match, testing of different tactics in order to come up with the best way to take that corner or free kick. A coach and his team are paying close attention to what they are doing, what the competition is doing dong and devising plans as to how to overcome any obstacle. He is giving advice during the game, shouting instructions and replacing players with new ones to adjust to the changing situation. Ultimately however it is the team in the field that will define if they are successful. Do they trust each other, can they predict each other’s behaviour, can they motivate each other when things seem to go badly, can they build on each other’s skill set to put the best possible performance in the field. And once they win the final and get that cup if will be achievement that will be remembered for ever. Does all of this reflect to ERM 1 on 1, off course not, but they are a lot of parallels. The most important part of an ERM implementation is the team that does the work and how well they do it. It there a team to complements each other’s skills and weaknesses. Is there a coach looking at the overall picture with the power to: instruct, motivate, make change, update plans and able to get the right people in the team. And most important of all does the team want to win that cup and implement a successful ERM implementation.

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