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Book Description

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

  1. Cover
  2. Introduction
  3. Section I: Creating a Championship Culture
    1. Chapter 1: The Fundamentals of a Championship Culture
    2. Chapter 2: Determining “Best”
    3. Chapter 3: Defining “Best”
    4. Chapter 4: Core Means Core!
    5. Chapter 5: Recruiting and Hiring “Best”
    6. Chapter 6: Talent Still Matters
      1. Notes
    7. Chapter 7: Determining Goals
      1. Note
    8. Chapter 8: When You Face a Hairpin Turn in the Road
    9. Chapter 9: Determining Standards
    10. Chapter 10: A Commitment to Goals and Standards
    11. Chapter 11: Hold “Best” Accountable
  4. Section II: Teammates
    1. Chapter 12: A Special Operations Teammate
    2. Chapter 13: Meet the Standards: Be a Thumb Teammate!
    3. Chapter 14: Do Your Job! Agreed, Kinda …
    4. Chapter 15: Winning Still Matters
    5. Chapter 16: Great Teammates Hold One Another Accountable
    6. Chapter 17: We Have Seen the Enemy
    7. Chapter 18: The Price of Not Holding Teammates Accountable
    8. Chapter 19: The Benefit of Team Accountability
    9. Chapter 20: Nice and Kind
    10. Chapter 21: How to Be Kind
      1. An Inverse Relation Between Timing and Tone and Volume
      2. Be Positive and Be Specific!
    11. Chapter 22: Wash Your Hands! Developing a Culture of Accountability
      1. Note
    12. Chapter 23: Do Not “Lead by Example”
    13. Chapter 24: Consistency Builds Trust
    14. Chapter 25: Friend or Teammate?
      1. Note
  5. Section III: Team Leaders
    1. Chapter 26: Wild-Goose Chase
    2. Chapter 27: What Is and Isn’t Leadership, and Who Are and Aren’t Leaders?
      1. Note
    3. Chapter 28: The Mission
      1. Part 1: Define It
      2. Part 2: Communicate It
      3. Part 3: Words on a Rock
    4. Chapter 29: The First Standard of a Leader: Accomplish the Mission
    5. Chapter 30: Leaders Ask “How?”
    6. Chapter 31: The Little Things Take Care of the Big Things
    7. Chapter 32: The Second Standard of a Leader: Take Care of Your Teammates
    8. Chapter 33: Mission First, People Always
    9. Chapter 34: Controlled and Uncontrolled Environments
      1. Note
    10. Chapter 35: Developing Leaders
      1. Leadership Means Accountability
      2. Start with Small Responsibilities
    11. Chapter 36: The Power of Delegation
    12. Chapter 37: Leadership Is a Contact Sport
      1. Note
    13. Chapter 38: The Roles of a Leader
      1. Part 1: Building Esprit de Corps
      2. Part 2: Intentionally Inverting the Pyramid
      3. Notes
  6. Section IV: Be Tough
    1. Chapter 39: Mount Everest: Facing the Challenge
    2. Chapter 40: The Case for Physical Fitness
    3. Chapter 41: Defining Toughness
    4. Chapter 42: A Light Switch, Not a Dial
    5. Chapter 43: Toughness: A Learned Trait
    6. Chapter 44: Developing Physical Toughness
      1. Grind
      2. The Upside of Deprivation
      3. Train How and Where You Will Compete
    7. Chapter 45: What Is Mental Toughness, and When Do We Need It?
      1. Note
    8. Chapter 46: Don’t Rise to the Occasion
    9. Chapter 47: Be Passionate, Not Emotional
      1. Notes
    10. Chapter 48: Choose a Positive Attitude
    11. Chapter 49: Inoculate Against Stress
    12. Chapter 50: Go or No Go?
      1. Notes
    13. Chapter 51: Go!
    14. Chapter 52: The Death Zone
      1. Note
    15. Chapter 53: The Summit, but Not Mission Accomplishment
      1. Note
    16. Chapter 54: Mission Accomplished
      1. Note
  7. Section V: No Excuses
    1. Chapter 55: No Excuses
    2. Chapter 56: A Life-Changing Explosion
    3. Chapter 57: I Don’t Have Enough Time
    4. Chapter 58: Make Preparations, Not Excuses
    5. Chapter 59: Being Motivated Is Not Enough
    6. Chapter 60: We Don’t Get What We Deserve—We Get What We Earn!
    7. Chapter 61: Don’t Let Anyone Make Excuses for You
  8. Section VI: Hard Work Is One More™
    1. Chapter 62: A Female Marine in Helmand Province, Afghanistan
    2. Chapter 63: We Work Hard
    3. Chapter 64: One More™ in a Combat Environment
    4. Chapter 65: Long-Term Greedy
      1. Note
    5. Chapter 66: Focus on Strengths, Address Weaknesses
      1. Determine Our One More™
      2. Compounding Our Choice to Do One More™
    6. Chapter 67: Determining Our “Why”
    7. Chapter 68: The FET Is a Target
  9. Section VII: Effective Communication
    1. Chapter 69: Alone on the Beach
    2. Chapter 70: Using CLAPP to Communicate Effectively
    3. Chapter 71: Listening to Understand
    4. Chapter 72: Battlefield Communication
    5. Chapter 73: Three Important Questions
    6. Chapter 74: Tell Your Teammates What You Want Them to Do!
    7. Chapter 75: Using a Back Brief
    8. Chapter 76: Closed-Loop Communication
    9. Chapter 77: Ignoring the Noise
    10. Chapter 78: Putting the Communication Techniques Together
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. About the Authors
  12. End User License Agreement