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Target Leadership Exercises and Workshops

A Fighter Pilot's Workplace Culture Exercise - 3 to 4 Hours

"Wow! This is fun! It's like releasing lightening from a bottle!"

This teambuilding culture workshop begins with a 1 hour Target Leadership Safety-Culture Keynote . It was once referred to as "Lightening in a Bottle" by a participant at a recent workshop because it is fast paced, dynamic, fun, competitive, and very interactive. Like flying a high performance jet, this exercise creates the very process you need to gain the advantage to ultimately win in a highly competitive market.

For fighter pilots, winning is the ultimate goal. However, this exercise clearly shows how teams with the highest percentage of "wins" are the ones who slow down and work in a methodical organized process. They listen to others, are disciplined, work as a team, and learn from previous errors.

This exercise creates the very "pressure to perform" that we put on ourselves and those around us. We are often our own worst enemy when it comes to creating a "get it done" at all cost mentality among our teammates. This can cause breakdowns in communication and operational excellence.

Did we bend or break any rules to get the job done?
How did we manage Safety-Quality-Productivity?
Was our debriefing productive?

The real learning comes during the debrief session. A Target Leadership facilitator will help guide the customized discussion.
The framework of this exercise is used to stimulate discussion and debate on current workplace issues and conflicts. The goal is to work towards a better solution by getting everyone's input. Another positive is gained by underscoring the methodologies that the group is doing well so that these processes can be duplicated and shared.

GHU-All Airlines Exercise - 3 Hours
FUN - UNIQUE - CHALLENGING - INTERACTIVE

This program begins with a 1 hour Target Leadership Safety Culture Keynote. Participants are pre-assigned to their respective teams and must sit with their assigned team during the keynote. Team sizes are 12 to 15 people.

After the keynote, we will explain the exercise. All groups are then dismissed into their breakout rooms. The exercise itself is 45 minutes.

Let the fun begin! Each team is in charge of fictitious GHU-ALL Airlines (god-Help-Us-ALL) flight 666, flying at 35,000 over the jungles of South America. KA-BOOM!! A massive explosion - catastrophic mechanical engine failure! The team must spring into a problem solving, teamwork, communication, organization mode.

The GHU-ALL exercise

How well will the leader (Captain) of each group ORGANIZE - COMMUNICATE - FOCUS - DELEGATE his entire team to get the crippled airliner full of people safely on the ground?

The airline is fictitious, however the scenario itself is based on a true event. Target Leadership speaker and facilitator Captain Steve "Tater" Tate was actually flying the aircraft that night when this event unfolded! He and his team had to come together and make decisions in minutes.

We share the lessons learned from both the company perspective and the employee perspective.
There are many answers to problems, but how do we know we made the BEST decisions?
Once decisions are made by employees on the job, how company leadership responds creates the culture of "the way it should be done around here."

See the GHU-ALL Breakout Room Set-up Sheet and the GHU-ALL Exercise Brochure.

"Following Target Leadership presentations, changing our focus to "leading Indicators" and cultivating the term "Knock It Off", we finished 2009 with an OSHA Recordable rate of .80 which lead the mini-mill steel producers in North America. We did not have a single incident through the first 5 1/2 months of 2009. We reduced our total incidents by nearly 40% and our OSHA recordable cases by 57%."

Butch Collins
General Manager
Gallatin Steel Company

Progress Energy Florida reported a 48% reduction in personal injuries and a 42% reduction in vehicle accidents after working with Odie.

AES Corporation plant achieved 12 months without a single recordable OSHA injury after several Target Leadership workshops and keynotes.

Admiral Merchants Motor Fleet CEO called Odie's message "marvelous" and "exceeded expectations".

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There is a unique story behind the meaning of "Plexiglas Navel" which we relate to the audience.

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