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

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. From the Inside Flap The Program is many things. It is a team-building and leadership development company that works with hundreds of professional and collegiate sports teams and corporations. It is a team of experienced and dedicated professionals working together in an effective, cohesive unit. It is a method used to train, develop, and inspire. The Program is a powerful mindset focused on successfully completing the mission. . . any mission. For over a decade, the expert instructors of The Program have helped organizations drive their teams to their fullest potential and achieve mission success. The Program: Lessons From Elite Military Units for Creating and Sustaining High Performance Leaders and Teams enables anyone to learn and apply the same principles and methods of The Program's training. This book serves as a roadmap to achieving more — more from yourself and more from your team. No matter your arena of battle, from the sports field to the boardroom, this book serves as a roadmap for competing for, and winning, championships. You will learn what a Championship Culture is, how to build it in your organization, and how to identify the Core Values that form its foundation. Then you will learn to develop goals and standards that reinforce Core Values throughout your organization on a daily basis. Now that your Championship Culture is in place, it is time to add standards and accountability into the mix. Your organization's culture is only as good as its members. By expecting adherence to the highest standards, for yourself and your team, a culture of accountability and excellence will flourish. Fostering this Championship Culture requires commitment and hard work. You will learn what you must do every day to be the best teammate and team leader possible, such as being physically and mentally tough, having no tolerance for excuses, and, perhaps most importantly, continually developing your communication skills—sustained success is impossible without effective communication. Following the lessons contained in The Program, you will gain the knowledge you need to lay the groundwork for a Championship Culture. You will understand what it takes to be a valued teammate and a strong leader. To develop a tough, no-nonsense, no-excuses, winning mindset. Put your new knowledge into action—challenge yourself and your teammates to take the game to the next level!