Corporate

ENTREPENEUR OPERATOR TRAINING COURSE

Like today’s battlefield, the modern business environment is incredibly complex. You are constantly presented with new opportunities and forced to solve problems you’ve never seen before. Logistics, public perception, mission, moral and ethical decisions, resources and training are all areas that cannot fail.

As your organization thrives, it moves further and further into a more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment. If new problem sets and opportunities begin emerge faster than your organization responds, eventually it enters chaos. When you’ve entered chaos, you are at risk of failure.

We know failure is not an option. The Detachment-1 Entrepreneur Operator Training Course is developed to prepare your organization in an entirely strategic and individual way, so you can deliver the best results during your most demanding and critical must-win events.

THE PROCESS

Tier-1 Special Mission Units continually respond to the speed of emerging information and complex problem sets that adapt faster than most organizations can generate plans of action and capitalize on the opportunities. These highly-skilled and agile teams are made up of communities of experts that constantly generate new ideas that lead to rapid innovation at rates much faster than single teams could do in the same timeframe. In fact, our experience operating in these environments has taught us that any organization’s ability to innovate rests on their internal appetite for change.

For your organization to stay relevant, you must continue to learn. To learn, you must be willing to let go of past solutions to past problems to embrace new ideas and solutions to new problems. To fully and aggressively exploit new information, your teams need the will to push through the dissonance and chaos that new ideas often create. To do that, you need a Team of Warriors.

THE 90-MINUTE ASSESSMENT & SELECTION

We are aware that The Detachment-1 training philosophy and the Entrepreneur Operator Training Course isn’t the right fit for every organization. Just as every organization isn’t the right fit for Detachment-1. We’ve learned that not all organizations have the culture, capacity and/or the will to truly change in the manner and timeframe our program requires. We know that this can be an extremely uncomfortable process as it challenges how we define ourselves. Remember, at Detachment-1, we’ve all been through it too; but as we say in the Unit, “If it were easy, everybody would do it”.

During our free 90-Minute Assessment and Selection Meeting, we’ll both have an opportunity to get to know each other’s organization. Our team of former Special Operation Warriors will visit your site and present you with a detailed overview of our process, conduct a thorough and structured needs assessment interview, and answer any questions or concerns that you may have. In addition, during this no obligation 90-minute conversation, our trainers will equip you with some tactics, techniques and procedures that will empower your leadership team and set the course for building your Team of Warriors.

Whether we select your organization for the Entrepreneur Operator Training Course or you intend to hire Detachment-1, fill out the form requesting your no obligation meeting and we’ll get back to you by the very next business day to schedule your 90-Minute Assessment and Selection Meeting. There’s no commitment, we love doing it, and it’s free!

SMALL TEAM MASTERY EVENT

Leaders must train their organizations to deal with challenging, complex, ambiguous, and uncomfortable situations. Such conditions require initiative, creativity and the ability to be comfortable with the “fog” and “friction” of the unknown. The Detachment-1 Small Team Mastery Event (STME) will help leaders understand adaptability as a concept and provide insights about their own strengths and weaknesses in challenging, complex and ambiguous situations through a mix of instruction, practice, problem solving and team action.

While the STME incorporates some lecture and discussion sessions, most of the day is experiential in nature. Our developmental approach includes transition from structured command-orientated tasks to less formal self-guided activities coupled with a gradual increase in task complexity and challenge. In addition to this focus on two-person team accountability, Detachment-1 Cadre will utilize After Action Reviews (AAR) to introduce and elaborate on background fundamentals and changes to the training environment to emphasize an “understanding of the why.”

At the end of this experience, each team member will have done something they can brag about for the rest of their lives. They will understand how critical it is to fully rely on the ability of their teammate. In addition, they will have shared the same exceptional results with all the other teams and developed a full appreciation and a renewed respect for the power of teamwork. After the STME, your organization will have taken a major leap towards becoming a Team of Warriors who have thrived in the face of incredible odds, overcame dynamic problem sets and shared a unique experience that only those who have gone through it could ever understand.

One more thing, don’t forget that the Detachment-1 Cadre is also a Team of Warriors who share a similar passion for building themselves and others into elite warriors. We continue to increase our knowledge and expertise in these areas by interacting with the Special Operations Community on an ongoing basis. We will adapt the STME to accommodate any special requirements so that absolutely every member of your organization can participate.

FORGING YOUR CULTURE

We often find that organizations are comprised of multiple departments or “tribes” comfortably nested in their own silos. Often these “tribes” each have their own culture, norms, language, and standard operating procedures (SOPs). A strong reason for change in one part of the organization might be an asset in another. The Detachment-1 Entrepreneur Operator Training Course will empower your leadership team to demolish the silos that often stifle innovation to build teams that stop focusing on “protecting what is” to embracing “what could be”.

Our training is designed to take your elite organization to the Tier-1 level by addressing three elements necessary to dominate every aspect of your operating environment. First, we help you to laser focus the mission of your organization and develop the will to hold yourself and each other accountable to its success. Second, we facilitate an ongoing mutual engagement focused on creating norms and relationships that strengthen the community and culture of your organization. Lastly, we help ensure your company utilizes shared language, tools, stories, SOPs and processes that enable individuals to know how to navigate them appropriately.

We address adaptability from an individual perspective, but only to the extent that the leader must understand it as an individual behavior, evident in themselves and the people they lead. However, our real focus is on the teams these leaders are responsible for. When leaders forge a culture that is open to innovation, comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrates trust in their subordinates and operates in a climate that supports novel solutions, natural adaptability emerges. This climate, affects the performance of every team, be it sales, marketing, creative, HR, or senior leadership.

The Detachment-1 Entrepreneur Operator Training Course ensures participants have a clear understanding of adaptability, how it applies to them and how it effects the relationships with those they lead. Our lessons equip leaders with processes to structure their organization’s day to day operations to provide ongoing opportunities for developing adaptability. Thus, ensuring the teams they lead are always prepared to embrace emerging information and new problem sets as opportunities and aggressively execute a plan of action with unwavering commitment, total focus and unprecedented overwhelming force to dominate the competition.

BUILDING THE WARRIOR

Our trainers have been members of the most elite military organizations in the world. Now they bring that experience to help your organization thrive. Our extensive experience selecting and training elite Special Operations Warfighters has equipped us with deep category experience in several domains, including: leadership development, selection of new members, assessment of existing members, strategic planning, messaging, training and decision-making processes. Our unique outcomes-based training model addresses all learning styles and virtually assures your team is equipped with the tactics, techniques & procedures to dominate the competition.

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Senior Leader

Leader development is a deliberate, continuous, and progressive process and is accomplished through the career‐long synthesis of the operational, institutional and self‐development domains. As a Senior Leader at a large organization, you operate in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. You need to surround yourself with teams that are capable, accountable, bold and innovative. They must understand and embrace your intent and vision. You need to prioritize and process a seemingly endless stream of data and information to make decision after decision that each may lead to victory or defeat for your organization. The tactics, techniques & procedures we offer in our Senior Leader and Executive Coaching programs have been developed from our experience directing the leadership training programs for Tier-1 Special Mission Units.

Ground Force Commander

The Ground Force Commander (GFC) is the individual in charge of the planning and execution of all phases of the specific mission. The GFC leads “the boots on the ground”. Over the course of their careers, Detachment-1 trainers have identified the characteristics of effective GFC decision making and best practices for pre-mission preparation and execution. Our process enhances tactical-level decision making under conditions of uncertainty to better prepare leaders for current and future operating environments. Detachment-1 helps seamlessly incorporate these tactics and techniques into the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of your organization.

Strategic Communication

One of the foundational struggles in physical warfare, is to shape the environment such that the battle will be fought on terms that are to your advantage. Likewise, a key component of your company’s narrative is to succeed in establishing the reasons for and potential outcomes of your organizational actions on terms favorable to your efforts. The continuous, rapid communications flow in the information environment, facilitated by modern technological advances and media distribution methods, requires responsive, agile processes and capabilities to preserve and enhance the credibility and influence of your organization. Further and more specifically, effective Strategic Communication requires synchronization of crucial themes, messages, images, and actions. We help your organization create an enduring strategic narrative with context, motive, and end state. This ensures consistent communications to global audiences over time and enables you to win the battle of the narrative.

Key Leader Engagement

Special Operations teams frequently meet with important and influential local officials in austere and hostile environments. These key leader engagements help commanders advance their objectives by building relationships with influential parties. A key leader engagement is primarily an influence operation. These interactions are dynamic processes that must be adapted to the operational environment. An engagement framework only succeeds to the extent that it can influence others. Detachment-1 will equip members of your organization with persuasion tools and techniques proven to yield consistent success in some of the most hostile environments imaginable.

Selection and Assessment

High-functioning organizations require a steady pipeline of specially recruited, assessed, selected, trained, employed, managed, and retained personnel to maintain expected capabilities. As the pool of potential recruits becomes smaller, the competition for the most qualified personnel increases. In addition, the time and expense required to create the best teams makes retaining experienced personnel just as important as recruiting new talent. “People are more important than hardware” is the first “Truth” of Special Operations. This drives the rigorous selection process and iron-clad bonds that are created between those who serve in Special Operations units. It is not their tactical skills or physical prowess that gets them selected. It is a combination of traits such as toughness, audacity, judgment, adaptability and accountability, that are woven into the collective consciousness of their units; often unspoken but omnipresent. Often these characteristics are label as “intangibles” and are considered difficult to assess and measure. Our trainers have vast experience developing characteristic-based selection and assessment programs for Tier-1 Special Mission Units and will help your organization define the skills, abilities and characteristics that contribute to your organization’s success.

Team Agility

The organization and structure of command and control within your organization determines how you operate. Many companies use buzz words like agility and flexibility, yet retain a traditional hierarchy that limits these same attributes. Special Operations Units are comprised of small, highly competent teams with decentralized decision-making authority that allows them to be flexible across a diverse mission spectrum. These versatile and innovative teams are task-organized and deploy quickly to operate in austere, harsh environments without extensive support and are a proven unconventional option for addressing ambiguous situations. Decentralized command gives these teams the freedom to experiment, assess local situations and report rapidly across the entire organization. Their combined autonomy, agility and transparent communication provides a valuable blueprint for leadership across any industry or domain. Our trainers leverage their vast experience building and operating in small units to help your organization become faster, flatter and more flexible in today’s pace of change, free-flow of information, and the disruptive spirit of the digital generation to harnesses these new realities as assets.

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