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. This keynote includes both a Main Speaker and a Wingman Fighter Pilot and is highly customized to meet the needs of your audience.

Plan — Learn how Fighter Pilots plan for a mission using the "Six Steps to Effective Combat Mission Planning".

Brief — Communicate the plan to maximize the quality of front-line execution.

Execute — Discover how Fighter Pilots ensure Flawless Execution in their missions by eliminating performance-draining Task Saturation.

Debrief — Implement nameless/rankless feedback sessions in your squadron to guarantee maximum learning.

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 they excel in the business of combat.

The day begins in the main briefing room where you will learn how Fighter Pilots adapt to change, assess risk, and prepare for their mission using the Six Steps to Combat Mission Planning. Suddenly, an urgent telegram will interrupt the briefing and alert your team that they have been attacked by a coalition of hostile competitors. Your Fighter Pilots will split into squadrons (breakout groups of 15) where, with the help of their Afterburner facilitator, they will have one hour to formulate a plan to regain your market share. Leadership, teamwork, and communication will allow each group to overcome the challenges of this dynamic Mission Planning exercise. The Afterburners use SCUD missile attacks, intruders, and information overload to closely parallel today's task saturated work environment in a fun, new format that ensures a lasting impression. After utilizing these tools for planning and execution, your team will discover how Fighter Pilots learn from their mistakes through an effective debrief. The Afterburners nameless/rankless debriefs shed new light on how your associates can identify and learn from costly mistakes.

[Full or Half Day Event (5-6 hours) Group Sizes 12-1,000]

If you don't have time for a full Afterburner Day, yet still want to lead your group through an awesome team-building event, then our high-energy, fast-paced Leaning Forward program is for you. This event captures the essentials of the Afterburner Day in a compact format, focusing on planning and debriefing.

Leaning Forward is an interactive, corporate event program where your team will learn, via lecture and experiential learning, how fighter pilots strive for flawless execution in every single mission. Your group will work side-by-side with some of America's top fighter pilots and learn how they excel in the business of combat. Our Afterburner team brings these lessons to your own business environment, in living color, using a multimedia presentation, a role playing breakout session with experienced military fighter pilots as facilitators, and punctuated by an intensely climatic and motivational closing. The energy and skill training of this event will improve your group's performance at every level.

[Half Day Event (3-4 hours) Group sizes 12-1,000]

When the economy is great, you can tolerate sales teams that are less than flawless, but what happens when the tables are turned and the economy isn't doing so great? You can't afford to have your sales teams operate at only a fraction of their potential. Your sales teams should hit their numbers not 70%, not 80%, but 100% of the time. But how can sales teams really improve their performance overnight? The answer…Afterburner brings you Flawless Sales Execution. Your sales teams are capable of success in any environment hostile or calm. The power to lead your sales teams to victory can be found in this sales keynote presentation.

Afterburner’s leadership keynote speaker Jim Murphy has helped top business leaders transform strategy into action. Historically fewer than 20% of all initiatives actually get accomplished. This keynote will help align your team around your strategy and understand exactly what to do and how to do it. This 60-90 minute keynote is based on Jim Murphy’s ground breaking book ‘Flawless Execution’.

Our objective is to provide Flawless Execution℠ as the enabling process your physicians, nurses and administrative teams utilize to improve safety and reduce medical errors by breaking down silos and improving communication, collaboration and teamwork.

Your staff is professional and dedicated. Your clinical staff has been trained in Team Steps and your administration has invested time, energy and financial resources in Six Sigma/Lean. Yet despite your best efforts cultural hierarchies and organizational silos continue to hinder your progress toward building a culture of safety and efficiency.

You need a team that works as one. You need a team that collaborates using a proven, common process. You need a team that knows not only how to plan a mission, but how to brief and execute that mission flawlessly from start to finish.
Enter Afterburner Fighter Pilots, Delivering Flawless Execution Tools to Your Teams

Our team of real fighter pilots will help your teams and organization reduce errors, increase quality and improve risk management utilizing Healthcare-specific Flawless Execution℠ keynotes, workshops and training on planning, briefing, debriefing and Task Saturation.

The atmosphere in a fighter jet is a "0-errors, 0-losses" environment. Perhaps no one in the civilian world understands this more than the highly skilled professionals in the world of offshore petroleum production. The necessity for Flawless Execution℠ in this environment is ABSOLUTE. The men and women of Afterburner specialize in one thing and one thing only, accelerating performance through Flawless Execution℠. They have been trained and tested their entire career in the execution of their mission, with an unmatched level of importance on the safety of their equipment, their crew and everyone involved with operations. Afterburner uses their battle proven process of Flawless Execution℠ to improve your team’s performance. By leading groups through a core process of Plan, Brief, Execute, and Debrief, the Afterburner trainers begin to ingrain a fundamental change in how a team operates and functions on each and every mission.