A large formation record is a critical project at full scale: bringing together ninety-six people, briefing them, and landing a shared figure on a jump you do not get to replay indefinitely. Domitille Kiger turned it into a method, the RECORD Protocol, which she now carries onto the stage with her keynote “De l'Audace”. Learning by Doing gives its most concrete version, learned, as the title says, by doing.
Learning by Doing · Domitille Kiger
The Flight Plan: structure with no gaps
Everything starts with structure. For a record, Domitille designs and engineers the jump, then submits her flight plan to the judge before boarding the aircraft with the participants. The first quality, she says, is organization, the ability to structure a project where a mistake is not allowed. With one point every manager will recognize: a rule being written down or said once does not mean the team has actually taken it in. You have to keep reinventing, sharpening, adding structure until the plan is genuinely shared.
The Parachute: building trust
Then comes the more human part, the one that decides everything under pressure: creating the conditions for trust. Domitille describes it at three levels: each person trusting themselves, trusting the others, and trusting whoever leads the project. It is that shared trust that puts a large group in the psychological state to pull off something stressful in a very short window. Without it, no structure, however solid, holds at the decisive moment.
The Horizon: giving it purpose
That leaves the third pillar, the one that holds the other two over time: purpose. Why come together, train, accept the constraint and the stress? Because the collective is aiming at a shared horizon, an objective worth the effort that each person takes ownership of. Purpose is what turns a stack of individuals into a team pulling in the same direction, and what gives structure and trust their reason to exist.
A method learned by doing
What makes it credible is that none of it is theoretical. Domitille built this frame through trial and successive adjustment, leading real records from 2013 onward, watching what works on human beings and what does not. Structure, trust, purpose: the three pillars of the RECORD Protocol are the distillation of what she learned in the field, and exactly what she carries over to team management.
- A method proven in the field, not a theory: the RECORD Protocol.
- Structure as the base : a clear flight plan, repeated until it is genuinely shared.
- Trust at three levels : in yourself, in the others, in whoever leads.
- Purpose that gives a collective a reason to go beyond itself together.
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