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"Caret Corporation" Touchstone, Exercise and Application
Building business knowledge and commitment to strategic goals!Scroll to bottom of page to see the touchstone.
The Caret touchstone can be tailored or completely customized to your business and objectives.
Participants learn how a company works as a whole, the challenges of achieving strategic objectives, and the interdependent relationships among departments as an inter-connecting system. Caret Corporation is a fictitious company that makes sports drinks. Particpants analyze some of its most critical business and cultural problems then develop recommendations as a special employee taskforce. This touchstone builds awareness of the impact of internal issues, conflict, and poor interdepartmental teamwork on productivity, efficiency, morale, and overall company performance; then develops commitment to action that is transferrable to the job. A post touchstone action-planning process captures participants' commitments to apply the concepts.
Where did the name Caret come from? Here's what participants learn in the program kickoff:
A caret is:
- ^
- Up arrow
- Editorial mark to indicate where an insertion is to take place
- Wedge shaped symbol above the 6 on a computer keyboard
- Symbol for hat
- Symbol to indicate an exponent in math, when sending email (5^2 is 5 squared) -- indicating a jump in power and size
- Migrating birds fly in a caret (^) formation -- more so than a V formation since they are flying forward.
- The caret formation creates an uplift for the bird immediately following, reducing drag, and preserving energy. It enables the entire flock (including the lead bird) to fly at least 71% further and up to 24% faster than if the birds were flying solo or in a random formation.
- Pilots call this phenomenon "wingtip vortex." Like birds, when planes fly in a caret formation, significantly less lifting power is needed and they can fly further on the same amount of fuel.
People in organizations achieve their goals and the goals of their organization more efficiently, faster, and more easily when they create uplifts for one another, minimize friction, become and stay aligned (in formation), and fly in a common direction and with a strong sense of community.
Our job today is to help the Caret Corporation fly 71% further and 24% faster with the same resources.
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