TRIDENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT - Immersive Battle-Tested Leadership Development

1) Leadership is not about you. It's about the team and it's about the mission. You're either a part of the team, or you're not. Put ego aside, put your personal agenda aside, and focus on the team. Be a part of it, decisively, and not the boss of it. And guess what: this applies to team members as well, not just "bosses."

2) Leadership is no respecter of persons, races, gender, eye color, height, or family name. Research has shown that none of those things allow us to predict behavior in any particular situation. Furthermore, the principles of leadership are universal, and do not change according to your personal issues or agendas, likes or dislikes, personal styles, or problems at home. If you are to be a good leader, the only thing that matters is the mission and the team's ability to achieve it. Leadership is about making sure the team is always prepared. Make it happen.

3) A Leadership program is not something to "fix them." More often than not, "they" are not the problem.

4) Leadership is not about controlling. It is about facilitating. Likewise, Leadership is not Management. You manage assets and systems; you lead people.

5) You can either give lip service to leadership, or you can choose to embrace it in a decisive way. People do the first to make themselves feel better, or to look good. People who do the second put the team ahead of themselves or their own need for recognition, and are willing to take action, even if it is uncomfortable or inconvenient. That is called Integrity. And it is called Leadership. The difference is "Self-ness" or "Selflessness." You decide. It's only your organization at stake.

6) Leadership is about Development, not Training. The differences have far-reaching implications. One is that there is no such thing as a quick fix, using a new, exciting trick or system from a handy-dandy pamphlet.

7) Think effective leadership and teamwork is a touchy-feely side-show, or is about "soft-skills?" Tell that to the Marines.

8) What are the six steps to great leadership? If you find out, let us know.

Leadership is about bringing human beings willingly together to become something greater than themselves, fully prepared to make the right things happen, the right way, at the right time, regardless whose responsibility it is. That's right, leadership has everything to do with Team, and little to do with individuals.

So where do you start?

1) Check your ego at the door.

2) Do whatever it takes to earn the absolute Trust of everyone in your team, everyday.

3) Begin by demonstrating to them a genuine, selfless commitment to investing in their well-being as a team, by learning about leadership and highly-effective teams..all of you, together.

4) Tear down the walls between management and the rest of the organization. That is not a team.