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by Eric Kapitulik (Author), Jake MacDonald (Author)
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.
Front Jacket
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!
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Back Jacket
LEARN HOW THE PROGRAM MOTIVATES SUCCESSFUL SPORTS TEAMS AND CORPORATIONS TO ACHIEVE VICTORY BY DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP AND COHESIVE TEAMS
The Program, a successful team-building and leadership company, has been helping develop better leaders and build cohesive teams for over a decade. Corporations and professional and college sports teams have benefited immensely from their acclaimed training courses and seminars. For the first time, the invaluable lessons of The Program are available to anyone. The Program: Lessons From Elite Military Units for Creating and Sustaining High Performance Leaders and Teams shares the same proven methods and high-impact strategies that organizations have been relying on for years.
The founders and instructors of The Program are an impressive collection of prestigious former athletes and military leaders. Their intense, real-life experiences on both the sports field and the battlefield gave them firsthand knowledge of the power of effective leadership and teamwork. This book enables organizations to apply proven, military-leadership and team-building concepts that sustain performance and adhere to the highest standards of excellence.
This practical, hands-on guide helps you understand and implement the tactics and techniques of a Championship Culture, such as accountability, commitment, and communication--underscored by personal stories of actual combat situations. Designed to be used as a blueprint for developing highly motivated teams and team leaders, this book lays out a tried-and-tested plan to achieve exemplary results in organizations of any type and size. Offering unforgettable illustrative examples, practical guidance, and real-world advice, The Program is a must-have resource for teams and leaders at all levels.
- Hold your teammates and leaders to the highest standards
- Increase effectiveness with accountability
- Communicate clearly and efficiently in even the most difficult situations
- Create a winning mindset in yourself and your team
- Compete and win on your chosen battlefield
Author Biography
ERIC KAPITULIK served as an Officer in the United States Marine Corps. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Eric is the Founder and President of The Program LLC.
JAKE MACDONALD is a graduate of Tufts University and served as an Officer in the United States Marine Corps. Jake completed two combat tours in Iraq and later deployed to Afghanistan as a Scout Sniper Platoon Commander.
