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The Program: Lessons From Elite Military Units for Creating and Sustaining High Performance Leaders and Teams

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Discover the military’s keys to excellent leadership and team building training The Program: Lessons From Elite Military Units for Creating and Sustaining High Performing Leaders and Teams offers a hands-on guide to the winning techniques and tactics of The Program, the acclaimed team building and leadership development company. Drawing on the actual experiences of The Program’s instructors from their personal combat stories to working with world-class athletic teams and successful corporations, the book clearly shows how The Program’s training operations can help to achieve life goals and ambitions. The Program offers a road map that contains illustrative examples, ideas, and approaches for improving teammates and leaders at all levels within an organization of any size or type. Bring your organization to the next level of success Discover how to hold your leaders and teammates to the highest standards Understand how accountability increases effectiveness Learn to communicate effectively  This important book explores the military’s leadership and team building concepts that can be implemented to ensure an organization creates and sustains performance that adheres to the highest standards of excellence. 

Table of Contents:
Introduction xi Section I Creating a Championship Culture 1 Chapter 1 The Fundamentals of a Championship Culture 3 Chapter 2 Determining “Best” 6 Chapter 3 Defining “Best” 10 Chapter 4 Core Means Core! 13 Chapter 5 Recruiting and Hiring “Best” 15 Chapter 6 Talent Still Matters 19 Chapter 7 Determining Goals 24 Chapter 8 When You Face a Hairpin Turn in the Road 28 Chapter 9 Determining Standards 32 Chapter 10 A Commitment to Goals and Standards 36 Chapter 11 Hold “Best” Accountable 39 Section II Teammates 43 Chapter 12 A Special Operations Teammate 45 Chapter 13 Meet the Standards: Be a Thumb Teammate 47 Chapter 14 Do Your Job! Agreed, Kinda . . . 50 Chapter 15 Winning Still Matters 52 Chapter 16 Great Teammates Hold One Another Accountable 55 Chapter 17 We Have Seen the Enemy 58 Chapter 18 The Price of Not Holding Teammates Accountable 60 Chapter 19 The Benefit of Team Accountability 62 Chapter 20 Nice and Kind 65 Chapter 21 How to Be Kind 67 Chapter 22 Wash Your Hands! Developing a Culture of Accountability 70 Chapter 23 Do Not “Lead by Example” 73 Chapter 24 Consistency Builds Trust 77 Chapter 25 Friend or Teammate? 80 Section III Team Leaders 87 Chapter 26 Wild-Goose Chase 89 Chapter 27 What is and Isn’t Leadership, and Who are and Aren’t Leaders? 93 Chapter 28 The Mission 96 Chapter 29 The First Standard of a Leader: Accomplish the Mission 100 Chapter 30 Leaders Ask “How?” 104 Chapter 31 The Little Things Take Care of the Big Things 107 Chapter 32 The Second Standard of a Leader: Take Care of Your Teammates 112 Chapter 33 Mission First, People Always 115 Chapter 34 Controlled and Uncontrolled Environments 118 Chapter 35 Developing Leaders 124 Chapter 36 The Power of Delegation 128 Chapter 37 Leadership is a Contact Sport 130 Chapter 38 The Roles of a Leader 134 Section IV Be Tough 143 Chapter 39 Mount Everest: Facing the Challenge 145 Chapter 40 The Case for Physical Fitness 147 Chapter 41 Defining Toughness 151 Chapter 42 A Light Switch, Not a Dial 153 Chapter 43 Toughness: A Learned Trait 155 Chapter 44 Developing Physical Toughness 157 Chapter 45 What is Mental Toughness, and When Do We Need It? 162 Chapter 46 Don’t Rise to the Occasion 165 Chapter 47 Be Passionate, Not Emotional 169 Chapter 48 Choose a Positive Attitude 172 Chapter 49 Inoculate Against Stress 175 Chapter 50 Go or No Go? 177 Chapter 51 Go! 180 Chapter 52 The Death Zone 182 Chapter 53 The Summit, but Not Mission Accomplishment 185 Chapter 54 Mission Accomplished 188 Section V No Excuses 195 Chapter 55 No Excuses 197 Chapter 56 A Life-Changing Explosion 199 Chapter 57 I Don’t Have Enough Time 203 Chapter 58 Make Preparations, Not Excuses 206 Chapter 59 Being Motivated is Not Enough 209 Chapter 60 We Don’t Get What We Deserve—We Get What We Earn! 211 Chapter 61 Don’t Let Anyone Make Excuses for You 213 Section VI Hard Work is One More™ 217 Chapter 62 A Female Marine in Helmand Province, Afghanistan 219 Chapter 63 We Work Hard 221 Chapter 64 One More™ in a Combat Environment 223 Chapter 65 Long-Term Greedy 225 Chapter 66 Focus on Strengths, Address Weaknesses 227 Chapter 67 Determining Our “Why” 230 Chapter 68 The FET is a Target 233 Section VII Effective Communication 239 Chapter 69 Alone on the Beach 241 Chapter 70 Using CLAPP to Communicate Effectively 243 Chapter 71 Listening to Understand 247 Chapter 72 Battlefield Communication 250 Chapter 73 Three Important Questions 253 Chapter 74 Tell Your Teammates What You Want Them to Do! 256 Chapter 75 Using a Back Brief 259 Chapter 76 Closed-Loop Communication 261 Chapter 77 Ignoring the Noise 263 Chapter 78 Putting the Communication Techniques Together 265 Acknowledgments 271 About the Authors 275


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781119574309
  • Publisher: Wiley
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 499 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1119574307
  • Publisher Date: 04 Sep 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Lessons From Elite Military Units for Creating and Sustaining High Performance Leaders and Teams
  • Width: 160 mm


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