A five-day intensive that takes leaders from self-awareness through team mastery — culminating in real-world leadership action under pressure.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
— John F. Kennedy
To understand the explicit and implicit skills of a leader.
Start the day with a physical workout and discover the health and mental benefits of coordinated physical activity. Participants will be separated and paired into teams to learn collaboration and teamwork while accomplishing physical tasks, led by physical trainers, military veterans, and leadership coaches.
The intent of Day 1 is to calibrate all participants to the meaning of leadership — what it means to them, their organization, and their community. Participants analyze leadership in different contexts to understand how leadership principles are universal. They learn what all leaders must: BE, KNOW, and DO.
Defining leadership characteristics, self-awareness, and modeling positive behavior.
Self Awareness → People Awareness → Organizational Awareness.
If you wish to control others, first, you must control yourself.
— Miyamoto Musashi, Samurai
To learn how to assemble, organize, and lead the team toward action.
Participants venture into another morning of physical challenges and work together to achieve a goal. Teams seek and find their competitive advantage as a group. The training team facilitates team bonding, productivity, and accountability while maintaining high morale.
Teamwork, Leadership, and Communication (TLC) is the focus. Assembling, delegating, and planning are explored to develop team actions. A leader must first lead by example, then create the professional language, culture, and environment that enables team chemistry.
A simple and proven 8-step leadership process (TLPs) for any situation.
The military decision-making process (MDMP) translated for organizational contexts.
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
— General Colin Powell, US Army
To prepare for the team's development and performance.
Physical challenges become more dynamic as teams apply lessons learned. Groups begin to recognize the advantages of familiarity and develop standards, expectations, and a culture. Morale is challenged by different experiences to expand awareness of capabilities and recognize limitations.
Now that you are in charge and accountable for the team, efforts to manage priorities, people, and performance are paramount. Strategies designed to improve leadership efficacy and morale are taught and utilized. Participants learn to influence positive behavioral patterns by sharing individual and team observations, feedback, lessons, and recommendations.
Prioritizing tasks, managing time, counselling team members, and completing reports.
Become the best agent for each team member while developing a high-performing team.
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
— Mother Teresa
To build the team through mission alignment, experience, and mistakes.
Transforming ME into WE. Leaders lead through action. Participants learn how groups become organizations, organizations become teams, and team members establish trust, values, and commitment.
After teams huddle up and establish an atmosphere of collaboration, participants learn how to manage the team's personalities, dynamics, and goals. Our focus is to develop routine and predictable behavior to exploit individual and team capabilities for great results.
Leaders learn how to be a more independent entity and understand how to operate during times of limited resources, time, and personnel. When situations are disrupted, leadership must prevail.
Lead the team through a simple mission designed to inspire cooperation, execution, and resilience.
Learn to control situations, reduce stress, and focus on work when disrupted.
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
— Antony Jay
To test leadership ability in a stressful environment to reinforce leadership skills.
The final day is an immersive experience focused on TLC. Participants are placed in an unfamiliar atmosphere and come together as a squad to tackle several missions. All participants are assessed on leadership and teamwork — results articulated in the individual Leadership Portfolio.
Each mission includes a planning, movement, and execution phase followed by an after-action review. Teams experience both functional and dysfunctional situations and learn how to handle both.
The exercises are designed to improve self-confidence, mental toughness, and audacity. After completing the final session, participants demonstrate leadership mastery in any situation. Teams become more cohesive, leaders become more confident, and the group is ready to take charge.
Multiple missions with planning, execution, and after-action review phases.
Individual performance assessment and evidence-based feedback for continued growth.