Sessions

Battle Ready is a modern-day Cinderella story that details how a Navy P-8 squadron went from terrible to top-notch in one year. Skipper Davis' account of the transformation is amazingly authentic, showcasing that success is attainable amidst numerous leadership failures and strong employee resistance. Leaders will get a firsthand experience of what was effective in changing the culture at VP-47, and they will learn from the mistakes Skipper Davis made along the way. The Sailors at VP-47 took command of their destiny, and their collective efforts ranked VP-47 as  No. 1 in morale, leadership and  communications. This incredible reversal seems unbelievable. How did the Sailors at VP-47 manage to make such a dramatic change? Cultivating culture through building trust, encouraging teamwork, communicating purpose and handing over ownership were all essential elements of VP-47's rise to the top.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn why organizational culture's impact on employee and sales performance is profound and is completely within the control of the leader.
• Understand that establishing trust is ultimately the leader's responsibility and will require the leader to get uncomfortable during intentional efforts to show care.
• Learn how to encourage teamwork by creating opportunities for your employees to come together, policies to keep them together, and incentives to encourage them to work together.
• Find out how to link your employees' purpose to our unknown desire to serve others.
• Discover how to leverage the power of ownership by communicating what success looks like and letting your employees chart the course.