Team of Teams®: A Foundational Course

Your guide to developing adaptable leaders capable of implementing working strategies and measuring your success.

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Your Journey to a Team of Teams Starts Here.

Traditional leadership models are insufficient for the challenges of today's rapidly evolving and unpredictable environment. Organizations can be completely overcome by crisis in an instant. Entire markets evaporated by rapidly emerging technological advances. A cascading increase of devastating natural disasters pummel both the public and private sector. What if there was a way to not only survive in this environment, but to thrive? Enter the Team of Teams Leadership Framework, a transformative, yet actionable, system to ensure agility, adaptability, and speed. In this foundational course, participants will dive into the essential elements of building a robust, interconnected, and empowered organization.

 

01 The Challenge

The U.S. military most elite troops call the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command home. However, these highly efficient and well-organized troops faced a new and unconventional enemy as they confronted Al Qaeda in Iraq. AQI had no structure, no predictability, and seemingly, no weaknesses as U.S. forces grappled with how to end their bloody terror campaign in Iraq.

 

 

 

 

 

02 Adapting to the Environment

Cascading decision making and linear information flows stress organizations in this new and complex environment. No matter what efficiencies a company can find it will never keep pace with the ever-evolving networks both inside and outside rank and file. Therefore, a team of teams is required to breakdown cross functional information flows.

 

 

 

 

 

03 Restructuring a Team of Teams®

Born in the crucible of combat, the Team of Teams Leadership Framework was developed to contain the hybrid forces of AQI, which carried out regular attacks on innocent civilians. While traditional leadership models look for efficiencies in operations, the Team of Teams Framework prioritizes collaboration over control, communication over coordination, common purpose over blind loyalty, and effectiveness over efficiency.

 

 

 

 

04 Defining the Capabilities

A Team of Teams has four capabilities: Common Purpose, Trust, Shared Consciousness, and Empowered Execution. None of these capabilities can stand alone in a successful team. Each capability is interdependent and can allow even large organizations to move with the speed of a startup.

 

 

 

 

05 Leading Like a Gardener

Many leaders think of themselves as chess masters, moving thoughtless pawns on a one-dimensional playing field; however, this is an unrealistic perspective in today’s complex and dynamic environment where variables are countless and multi-dimensional. Today’s leaders need the skills of a gardener who cares for his plants and sets the conditions for growth.

 

 

 

 

06 Our Shifting Environment

Today’s environment has only gotten more complex and less predictable. Leaders of the past worked in mostly linear scenarios where A + B = C. In our new world, the threats are everywhere and variables too numerous to count; however, organizations can not only survive in this new environment, but they can also thrive.

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