Saturday, May 16, 2009

Learn What the US Marines Know About Building GREAT Teams

Adapt the Marine Corps' model of leadership, decision-making, team building maneuvers, and execution to your business. This course is designed to prepare organizations to thrive on the economic battlefield and calls for teams to engage and learn the maneuvers, strategies, and tactics of business WARFIGHTING. This conference comes at a time when organizations must rely on their teams to compete at peak levels to ensure its future. The warfighting strategies for teams outlined in this conference breaks inherited ways of thinking, cultural assumptions and rules, and provide patterns for charting the complex organizational situations and competitive scenarios associates may face along their journey of becoming a great team member.

Participants will gain tools to:

- Drive results and change amidst uncertain market conditions
- Decentralize decision making capacity across their organizations in order to compete in

today's critical markets and overcome the economic perils they face
- Target critical vulnerabilities that drive results and change using the GREAT

team's "Memorandum of Understanding"
- Create uniqueness into ultimate power
- Learn the seven WARFIGHTING competencies of GREAT teams
- Understand how to integrate the strategies inspired by two great warfighting classics, "The

Art of War" and "The 36 Stratagems" to win the currently engaged economic battlefield
- Drive results and change using the 8-WARFIGHTING strategies for successful cultural

transformation

TURN UNCERTAINTY INTO A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE FOR YOUR TEAMS AND BUSINESS

Introduction to the seven guiding principles of Business WARFIGHTING For GREAT Teams as applied to business: Review "how-to" prescriptions that illustrates guiding principles (target critical vulnerabilities, Decentralize decision making, boldness, surprise, focus, tempo, and combined arms) to create uncontested market space, make the competition irrelevant, and increase the team's "intellectual and emotional thought space" for value creation.

Introduction to the leadership pillars of Business WARFIGHTING For GREAT Teams as applied to business: Examine "The Law of the Bank" to identify the critical leadership principles that are driven by GREAT teams in successful organizations (binding and trust, transactional leadership and management, depth of character, interpersonal relationships - respect and fair treatment, integrity, and unselfishness).

Introduction to the Five Paragraph Order of Business WARFIGHTING For GREAT Teams as applied to business: Learn to understand "how-to" integrate the "SMEAC" acronym to resolve conflict to any situation, business, organization, personal, and professional (understand the "situation" and plan a course of action, identify a clear "mission" - SMART goals and successful objectives - to engage high and low ground, target critical successes and "execute" towards the Future Picture - expect the unexpected and deal with it accordingly, remain fluid in your priorities to ensure "administrative/logistics" are firmly being acknowledged and achieved, complete the succession process through "command and control" measures; document lessons learned to ensure generational excellence).

The concept of business WARFIGHTING can be used in any industry, in any organization, and on any team. Heavy emphasis is placed on interactive discussion throughout the course (i.e., "how can you apply these ideas in your organization" immediately upon your return?) This conference, and its accompanying publication "Business WARFIGHTING For GREAT Teams" by authors Damian D. "Skipper" Pitts and Jason G. Brown, illustrates how to use its strategies to develop extraordinary teams from ordinary ones, while operating within great team environments to impact the future. Used appropriately, individuals and teams will be able to manage their way to victory in any competitive scenario, whether at a business engagement, departmental, or personal level. In times such as the economic perils ongoing around the world, there is no better role model for the warrior culture and warrior nature that is hidden within every individual than the one described and articulated on the pages of this timeless text and deployed within the instruction in this conference.

For additional information, please contact Solutions@thebisongroup.com, REF: Business WARFIGHTING "Mission Brief."

Damian D. "Skipper" Pitts, A United States Marine turned business professional is co-author of Business WARFIGHTING For GREAT Teams (Book Surge Publishing, 2009) and Founder and Chairman of the Bison Group Corporation, a management consulting and training firm. He is the author The Process of LeaderShaping, a cultural transformational program and university course of study and has consulted or presented to numerous leading U.S. and foreign corporations, helping them to realize increased integrated talent management strategies, team building maneuvers, and decision-making skills to compete in today's highly uncertain business environments.

He has also authored four additional publications with his most successful title, The Art of Detachment: Breakthrough Principles to Transformational Leadership (Kendall Hunt, 2007). His works allowed him to be chosen as the technical, military and development specialists by the U.S. film industry to the feature film "Stateside" that released in theaters in May 2004 where he trained and acted onscreen with "A-List" talents Val Kilmer and Jonathan Tucker along with 75 -other actors, teaching them the principles of leadership, team development, and influence for the production. He is now teaching his programs at Temple University.

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