• Flawless Execution
The Afterburner Seminars, founded by ace fighter pilot Jim Murphy, provide a one-of-a-kind, interactive, high-energy experience that is custom-tailored to inspire leadership, integrated teamwork and the quick, flexible thinking essential to fighter pilots and business managers alike. Audiences learn to think on their feet, react to change, set a strategic plan, execute it and then debrief, all while learning such valuable skills as teambuilding, leadership, peak performance, and experiential learning. At Afterburner programs and workshops, audiences discover and apply the tools that top fighter pilots rely on every day for success.
According to Afterburners, Business Is Combat. Success depends on how well all members of your team execute their individual missions, every single day. Many corporations are great at planning but when it comes to execution, they fail. That's where Afterburner can help. We lead the world's top corporations to breakthrough performance through the pursuit of Flawless Execution.
In business, the stakes are almost that high and so is the pressure. Short deadlines, intense competition, rapidly changing marketplaces, and information overload can make it difficult to keep your eye on the target. Our cutting-edge corporate training uses the combat proven methodologies of fighter pilots to help your team achieve victory in your rapidly changing business environment. Whether you are in sales and marketing, operations or management, Afterburner can help you transform your team into a highly competitive fighting force.
Afterburner Seminars is a company that specializes in the strategic application of fighter pilot training techniques, facilitated by 50 of America's elite men and women U.S. fighter pilots, to business situations. We do this through keynote speaking, corporate teambuilding events and leadership development programs addressed to corporations, healthcare organizations and today's youth. Steely determination, intense concentration, task management, teamwork, and mutual support are the survival skills necessary for today's fighter pilots, as well as today's top business managers.
If you consider your business as combat, Afterburners Seminars has a program specifically tailored for your company's mission. Their programs include half-day seminars and one-hour keynote speeches for meetings, conventions, and corporate training. The seminars include lectures, interactive role-playing, and simulated combat situations on the ground, or in actual flight. Clients include over 100 of the Fortune 500 Companies including IBM, Home Depot, Johnson & Johnson, State Farm Insurance, Bell South, FedEx, and many more. The Afterburners have been featured on Fox News, in Investors Business Daily, and in National Radio Syndication.
TOPICS:
• Plan, Brief, Execute, Debrief, Win!: A Fighter Pilot’s Secret to Business Success
• Eliminating Task Saturation
• Brief To Win: Improving Business Execution Through Powerful Briefings
• Never, Never Leave Your Wingman: Use Teamwork and Mutual Support to Achieve Your Goal
• Leading Flawless Execution From the Top
CLIENT REFERENCES:
"Thank you for the outstanding job your team accomplished in ourAfterburner seminar last month. Your preparation and delivery for our session was outstanding!"
-- K Berger, Sr. VP, Zurich Insurance Company
"As you know, we have a very aggressive group of sales guys that are rough to keep involved for more than 15 minutes. You guys kepth themon the edge of their seats for 4 1/2 hours."
-- K. Grinnon, Mgr Sales, Ted Lansing Corp.
"In my 13 years with Deloitte & Touche, I have been involved with a great many firm meetings and I can assure you that the rankings for your session are the highest I have ever seen."
-- R. Wilde,Mgng Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
LIST OF CLIENTS:
American Express
Bank of America
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Citi Group
Freddie Mac
GE Capital
GMAC Mortgage
Grey Healthcare Group
Kemper Mutual Funds
Lincoln Financial
Moody Investments
National City Mortgage
Nicholas Applegate
Pacific Group International
Solomon Smith Barney
Zurich Insurance
TOPIC DESCRIPTIONS:
Brief, Execute, Debrief...a fighter pilot's secret to business success.
In this session your group will learn how Fighter Pilots attack their missions in both training and combat. Brief, Execute, Debrief encompasses the following concepts:
• Brief - Learn how Fighter Pilots plan for a mission using the "Six Steps to Combat Mission Planning."
• Execute - Discover how Fighter Pilots ensure flawless execution in their missions by eliminating performance draining Task SaturationSM.
• Debrief - Implement nameless/rankless feedback sessions in your squadron to guarantee maximum learning.
Eliminating Task Saturation
Task SaturationSM (information overload) is the #1 productivity killer in business today. Learn how Fighter Pilots overcome Task SaturationSM by employing "The Three C's."
• Checklists - They provide critical guidance in an emergency situation and reinforce your normal daily procedures.
• Crosschecks - They will help keep you focused during information overload.
• Check Six - Use teamwork to guarantee that a wingman is always watching out for you.
The Afterburner Day (1/2 or Full Day Seminar - Up to 1,000 participants)
Our most popular, hands-on seminar for corporate management and sales, we show you how the tools employed by American Fighter Pilots can help you plan, execute, debrief, and win in today's fast paced world of business. Using a multimedia presentation, a role-playing breakout session with experienced military Fighter Pilots as facilitators -- and a riveting final hour that some say is the best in the business -- our Afterburner Seminars team takes those tools and seamlessly translates them into your own business environment. Our message? Brief. Execute. Debrief. = Win!!
The Afterburner Day is an interactive, hands-on experience where your team will compare the similar situations faced in business and in air combat. During the Afterburner Day, your group will work side-by-side with some of America's top Fighter Pilots and learn how we excel in the business of combat. Then your "Fighter Pilots" will apply these "real world" lessons directly to your business.
Leaning Forward Program (2 Hour Seminar - Up to 1, 000 Participants)
Easily described as an abbreviated version of the Afterburner Day program.. Differences include:
• Program length is reduced to 2 hours
• Decorations are included at no charge. Due to staff constraints, the client is responsible for decorating the room
• The participants will go through the exact same Mission Planning exercise as the Afterburner Day program
• The Debrief of the Mission Planning exercise is conducted in a General Session lecture format versus the facilitator led breakout sessions held during the Afterburner Day program
• This General Session debrief allows reduced staffing and your cost by approximately 50%
TRAVELS FROM: Varies
FEE CATEGORY: Varies
