Afterburner
The Afterburner Seminars, founded by ace fighter pilot Jim Murphy, provide a one-of-a-kind, interactive, high-energy experience that is custom-tailored to inspire leadership, integrated teamwork and the quick, flexible thinking essential to fighter pilots and business managers alike.
Topics:
- Coaching/Mentoring /
- Communication /
- Leadership /
- Management /
- Motivation /
- Strategy /
- Team Building /
- Change Management
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Afterburners is a team of America's fighter pilots trained to Plan, Brief, Execute, Debrief - Win, in pursuit of flawless execution. Using the combat-proven methodologies of fighter pilots, Afterburners can help you transform your team into a highly competitive fighting force. The combination of sound organizational development and combat-proven methodologies have made Afterburners one of the fastest growing training firms in the country. Afterburners leads the world's top corporations to breakthrough performance through the pursuit of flawless execution.
Afterburners teaches the Flawless Execution Model SM, the process used by Fighter Pilots around the world to execute missions when the stakes are high and failure is not an option. Corporate survival, like surviving in combat, depends on execution. Afterburners' team of 50 men and women fighter pilots (both former and current) has a powerful mix of combat experience combined with extensive business skills. Many members of the team are graduates of the nation's top business schools and academies. Afterburners uses the combat-proven methodologies of fighter pilots, working with your team, to achieve victory in a rapidly changing business environment.
Flawless Execution Works! It is dynamic and powerful because it is simple to use, yet the effects are lasting. The results are disciplined, coordinated and predictable. Afterburners has an unwavering focus on improving your team's ability to execute. Your team can improve execution and stay one step ahead of the competition in just four simple steps.
Step One - Plan - The plan starts with an objective that is clear, measurable and achievable and supports your company's overall strategy.
Step Two - Brief - You communicate the plan. It is essential that people on the front lines know exactly what is expected of them. Businesses ignore this - often to their peril.
Step Three - Execute - Generally, there in one thing that gets in the way of flawless execution. It is called Task Saturation, which simply put, is task overload, when you and your team have so many competing priorities that you have a melt-down. In business, this could be any day in a manager's life when the pace of business is out of control. Task saturation can drain the entire organization and keep you from accomplishing your ultimate goal - to execute the perfect mission. Flawless Execution uses developed techniques to help minimize task saturation. Afterburners will teach your team how to develope and use these tools as part of your workplace arsenal.
Step Four - Debrief - The last sep is the Debriefing. After each mission, fighter pilots hold a nameless, rankless Debrief. Each person, without fear of reprimand, rehashes what worked, what did not work and why both the good events and the bad events happened. We then take the key lessons learned from the debrief and apply them to the next plan. Debriefing speeds up learning. It lets us fine-tune the processes that ensure success.
Win! Our goal is to win by implementing a disciplined management process. We really win if we have planned carefully, briefed our plan thoroughly, executed our plan with dicipline and debriefed the mission.
Plan.Brief.Execute.Debrief=Win!: A Fighter Pilot's Secret to Business Success
[Keynote]
In this session your group will learn how Fighter Pilots attack their missions
in both training and combat. Plan - Learn how Fighter Pilots plan for a mission
using the "Six Steps to Effective Combat Mission Planning." Brief - Communicate
the plan to maximize the quality of front line execution. Execute - Discover
how Fighter Pilots ensure Flawless Execution in their missions by eliminating
performance draining Task Saturation. Debrief - Implement nameless/rankless
feedback sessions in your squadron to guarantee maximum learning.
Eliminating Task Saturation
[Keynote]
Task Saturation (information overload) is the #1 productivity killer in
business today. Learn how Fighter Pilots overcome Task Saturation by employing
"The Three C's." Checklists - Provide critical guidance in an emergency
situation and reinforce your normal daily procedures. Crosschecks - Keep you
focused during information overload. Check Six - Use teamwork to guarantee that
a wingman is always watching out for you.
The Afterburner Day
[Half to full day event, group sizes 12-1000]
The Afterburner Day is an interactive, hands-on experience where your team will
compare the similar situations faced in business and in air combat. During the
Afterburner Day, your group will work side-by-side with some of America's top
Fighter Pilots and learn how they excel in the business of combat. The day
begins in the main briefing room where you will learn how Fighter Pilots adapt
to change, assess risk, and prepare for their mission using the Six Steps to
Combat Mission Planning. Suddenly, an urgent telegram will interrupt the
briefing and alert your team that they have been attacked by a coalition of
hostile competitors. Your Fighter Pilots will split into squadrons (breakout
groups of 15) where, with the help of their Afterburner facilitator, they will
have one hour to formulate a plan to regain your market share. Leadership,
teamwork, and communication will allow each group to overcome the challenges of
this dynamic Mission Planning exercise. The Afterburners use SCUD missile
attacks, intruders, and information overload to closely parallel today's task
saturated work environment in a fun, new format that ensures a lasting
impression. After utilizing these tools for planning and execution, your team
will discover how Fighter Pilots learn from their mistakes through an effective
debrief. The Afterburners' nameless/rankless debriefs shed new light on how
your associates can identify and learn from costly mistakes.
Brief to Win!
[Half to full day event, group sizes 12-1000]
On any given day, in any fighter squadron across the country, men and women
climb into their jet aircraft prepared to do battle. They have been well
trained. Their job knowledge is unquestionable. They are extremely motivated.
The mission runs flawlessly and an important target is destroyed exactly as
planned. The key words here are "exactly as planned." We are talking about
Flawless Execution, a stumbling point for many businesses today. Why do the
highly talented and motivated teams in so many businesses with a great plan
fall short when it comes to execution? It is because the plan is not properly
communicated to the men and women who must take the battle to the competition.
Through combat testing, fighter pilots have developed a life-saving/mission
perfecting formula for communicating the plan which we call "Briefing to Win!"
We will facilitate this lesson in an attention-riveting, real time simulation
of a complex air battle. The Afterburner fighter pilots will expose your team
to the fog of war and then teach them how to burn through the fog using precise
briefing and communication techniques. Once your team has "aced" their mission,
The Afterburner facilitators will move to a real world case study tailored to
your business.
Program Brief: Leaning Forward
[2.5 - 3.0 hours, group sizes 12 - 1000]
If you don't have time for a full Afterburner Day, yet still want to lead your
group through an awesome team building event, then our high energy, fast paced
Leaning Forward Program is for you. This event captures the essentials of the
Afterburner Day in a compact format, focusing on planning and debriefing.
Leaning Forward is an interactive, corporate event program where your team will
learn, via lecture and experiential learning, how fighter pilots strive for
flawless execution in every single mission. Your group will work side-by-side
with some of America's top fighter pilots and learn how they excel in the
business of combat. Our Afterburner team brings these lessons to your own
business environment, in living color, using a multimedia presentation, a role
playing breakout session with experienced military fighter pilots as
facilitators, and punctuated by an intensely climatic and motivational
closing. The energy and skill training of this event will improve your group's
performance at every level.


