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Discover how the subconscious leadership mind can boost decision-making, productivity, and creativity. Learn actionable techniques like visualization, affirmations, and habit stacking to enhance focus, emotional intelligence, and leadership performance with Afterburner’s proven frameworks.

Learn how to pick the perfect keynote speaker for your next event! Discover tips on aligning with culture, engaging audiences, and driving results.

Discover the signs that a corporate team-building event is needed, from low morale and poor communication to high turnover and a lack of collaboration.

Poor leadership affects more than morale, it hurts your bottom line. Discover how developing strong leaders can drive growth and prevent profit loss.

Explore essential leadership qualities that elevate teams and drive success. Learn how leaders inspire growth, boost morale, and achieve business goals.

High-impact leaders developed through Afterburner’s training can transform organizations and drive excellence in today’s environment.

Discover the important of debriefing and how your team can continuously grow using these best practices.

In this leadership symposium, our focus is on Flawless Leadership, a concept vital for navigating the complexities of leadership in the contemporary world.

Staying engaged in a very average sales kickoff can be a major struggle. Explore our tips for increasing enthusiasm.

Building trust as a leader in today’s rapidly-changing business world is hard. Learn the biggest challenges leaders face, & how to overcome.

The top 8 reasons your current strategy development and execution are keeping you from long-term growth in the face of a global pandemic.

Discover the strategic pivot and its crucial role in business adaptability. Empower your team with Afterburner's expertise for agile business.

Afterburner specializes in helping teams combat distractions, implement cross-checks into their workflow, and hit revenue targets.

Times of turbulence are not ideal for new leadership, as it symbolizes more change. Here are 3 steps new leaders must take for success.

Afterburner gets your team in a room with real Fighter Pilots so you can learn how to incorporate their mindset into your next corporate event.

Unlock better decisions with Debrief Culture. Explore fear's impact, continuous improvement, and breaking loops for enhanced decision-making.

Learn how the Debriefing Method, inspired by Fighter Pilots, can skyrocket productivity by 400%. Transform your business today!

Explore how the Harvard Business Review helps in mastering decision making in a challenging world.

Discover the transformative power of embracing failure through structured debriefing. Learn how adopting this practice can lead to continuous improvement, growth, and remarkable success.

Explore how Afterburner's Fighter Pilot Guide is the key to embracing disruption in a chaotic world.

Find out the importance of deep performance and how your team can leverage these strategies for better outcomes.

Success is a fundamental aspect of our lives. From the moment we start dreaming about our future goals, success becomes the benchmark of our accomplishments.

A one-day, high energy Afterburner experience is the fastest route to building excitement and inspiring your team to perform at their best.

Why building a solid team culture matters now more than ever, how to build a team culture that powers performance. Get six expert tips.

Learn how you can align your team within the right culture, mindset, and execution rhythm and end the year on a revenue high note.

Afterburner’s founder shares a winning back-to-basics approach to leadership in business, and why it’s key to navigating economic turbulence.

Learn how Afterburner can help your team overcome growing pains and take your growth to new heights by developing a common mental model.

Helping teams build a strong culture of collaboration and communication, through a framework informed by the ideals of elite military teams.

Afterburner Inc is collaborating with Paramount Pictures, CMX Cinemas, and Silverspot Cinema to host events in movie theaters across the country.

W will share the universal principles that companies are employing as they rapidly transform to capture emerging market opportunities.

Afterburner CEO Joel “Thor” Neeb, shares insights from assessments with dozens of companies and results that helped them make the right strategic shifts.

In this webinar, we share the universal principles that companies are employing to capture emerging market opportunities.

Disengaged workers cost the economy hundreds of billions of dollars per year. But, it can be tough to motivate your employees when you're leading remotely.

Situational Awareness plays a vital role when executing in complex business environments. Here are 3 tips to improve your awareness.

How do you make sure you have the right team, and prevent task saturation? One answer lies in the practice of Task Shedding and Task Sharing.

Explore these three simple tips to eliminate your task saturation and improve productivity.

Setting the tone isn't just for missions executed from a cockpit - it's for missions executed anywhere, and it's key for building a successful team.

Communication is vital in the workplace. What many don’t realize is that your tone can affect communication in business both positively and negatively.

Take into consideration these 12 things when aligning your business goals with your High Definition Destination.

Continuous improvement in the workplace is a two-way street, explore how this can help grow your business and team.

When developing strategic plans, it’s important for you to be able to recognize and understand these two types of business threats.

The Fighter Pilot Debrief helps you hold on to your best practices and remain agile. Learn how to implement debriefing here.

The point of ongoing training is to not only sharpen the employee skills but to also put yourself in a position to jump ahead of the pack.

As a leader in your company, encouraging leadership development all around is imperative to the growth of your business.

Explore the seven characteristics your team needs to be high performing.

Explore how you can learn from professional sports about building a high-performing team.

Debriefing can transform the way your team approaches issues and how your team members work together.

In this webinar, we will talk about how to align your goals without losing sight of the HDD or your personal buy-in during the execution phase.

Explore how building talented teams provides the greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy.

In this webinar, we will discuss strategies and facilitation techniques that give you the most value from your team dynamic.

Explore the keys of providing strong leadership in the age of social networks.

Execution leadership means taking action and action requires knowledge. Afterburner breaks down the steps necessary to take the right actions.

Expertise is an important part of leadership development, and for a team: a team needs some experience in order to carry out a successful mission.

In this webinar, Joel "Thor" Neeb shares the top challenges our sales team clients face and gives you actionable next steps.

What makes a team perform well? Share some lessons learned from the Richard Childress Racing campus in North Carolina, and those teams perform together.

Motivation comes from establishing a process and then executing it. Our Flawless Execution model helps create motivation and gets amazing results.

Explore the fundamentals of business planning and thy 'why' behind these important processes.

If Fighter Pilots devote time to learn from their actions, how can your business afford not to do the same? Learn to debrief like a pilot.

Principles by Ray Dalio is a mashup of autobiography and rules for living and working, including how to make decisions to flawlessly execute today.

Lessons learned are experiences distilled from a project that should be taken into account in future projects to fuel improvement efforts

Unlock your team's potential with The ORCA Debriefing Process, the secret to high-performing operations teams.

Many individuals and organizations struggle with business agility, but you don’t have to be one of them! Learn to be profitable in a turbulent environment.

Military leadership development and experience is a key component to driving success, especially in turbulent business environments.

The process of the Flawless Execution model were built on the success of small teams responding to immediate need.

If you cannot effectively connect strategy and execution, all that time spent in planning sessions can go to waste, losing the inspired alignment you built.

There are many ways you can boost your team performance: a few of our favorite tools include making use of checklists, and relying on mutual support.

Are you stuck in the cycle of repeating the same mistakes? Debriefing can help you break the cycle and achieve continuous improvement.|

Team building training in the business world bears many comparisons to a metronome in the musical world because of the crucial importance of rhythm.

The business section of your local bookstore is filled with business strategy titles, but we wanted to give some our favorite recommendations to guide you.

Why is it a critical professional team building exercise to look back at the successes and breakdowns of every one of your plans? To make the next one better.

When leaving the military, it’s hard to know if your skills and training will translate in civilian life. However, you could become an agile team veteran.

There are many uncontrollable threats that occur all throughout your strategic business plan: learn how to deal with surprises and the unexpected.

No matter your industry or title, sooner or later, everyone will experience a crisis. Learn the steps successful teams take to work through any crisis.

A Red Team is a peer review of strategic or project related plans. This team is asked to review a strategic business plan, and are essential for a business.

A great Red Team simulates first contact with your customer’s desires, your organization’s idiosyncrasies, your competition’s will, & drives team performance.

Flawless Execution, the model for building high performance teams and organizations we teach and use at Afterburner, is on display in Paul Zak's "Trust Factor.

To have success as a first-time actor, plan first. Know your mission plan, identify resources & threats, plan your course of action & have a contingency plan.

How you can add a Daily Stand-Up to your X-Gap cadence to increase team accountability and improve your execution velocity rate: why we love our stand-ups.

Building diverse teams can have a critical impact on your organization's long-term success. This checklist can help you build a diverse team.

Simple Lessons Learned on the global business battlefield that will improve your Organizational Change Management and Organizational Change Leadership.

In business and technology, organizational alignment is the foundation of DevOps success by providing clarity and purpose.

Describes to the reader the importance of communicating leaders intent and empowering decision makers as the most effective leadership skills training.

Learn how to deal with external threats that will inevitably arise through the execution of your plan by prepping for the strategic plan and its execution.

Afterburner delivers execution strategy by focusing on reducing the gaps in execution or what our Flawless Execution methodology calls X-Gaps.

Strategic alignment to a common goal is the key to a high-performing sales team.

How the simplicity of Flawless Execution allows organizations to reduce the complexity of change management in an ever-changing world.

A relevant team building seminar is part of the solution adapting our ancient instincts for working together as a team to the modern business environment.

How applying core aviation operations concepts, like mutual support, drastically improves team performance. "Not who's right, but what's right."

Few leaders have even a simple understanding of what mindfulness can mean to them and their team when building successful teams.

Across the years one profession has remained at the top of every prestige or respect poll: military officer. Translate that knowledge into successful teams.

Have you ever been invited to a collaboration or professional team building training and felt like you weren’t contributing your best ideas?

When teams and organizations fall short of expectations, team communication is often cited as a root cause. Learn to improve team communication with us.

Creativity and innovation in application development are, in many respects, a conditioned response to a problem or challenge.

Have you ever noticed how some people handle stressful decision making with remarkable composure? It's usually effective situational awareness that lets them.

Managing and overcoming innovation risk is one of the most overlooked risks in today’s business landscape: good strategic business planning ensures success.

It takes a lot of training to develop an effective leader. That's why Afterburner offers corporate leadership programs to teach the necessary skills.

Your organization is full of experience, but is it full of organizational learning? Find out how to get the most of your team.

Innovation rarely emerges quickly or without concentrated effort. Learn the keys to innovation, and lead your agile team to something great.

Abraham Lincoln led by walking around. That seems like a basic corporate leadership development concept easily understood, but much harder to practice.

For the past twenty years, our team has delivered experiential learning programs to every kind of organization. We specialize in creating successful teams.

Returning to civilian life was a very difficult decision to make, but on the other side of it I found Afterburner, and the Flawless Execution model.

In the Star Wars saga, the Empire is clearly a traditional waterfall, top-down, command-and-control based organization.

Jim "Murph" Murphy here, proud founder & CEO of a twenty-year-old company.

Meetings matter because they are the heartbeat of an organization's culture. Use our Flawless Execution model to get the most out of your meetings.

Military Veterans bring sound technical skills from the service, and life skills that make a great ScrumMaster, and make great team building consultants.

You can't avoid inaction. When you do act, it's best to go in with a clear, well-defined mission plan to help you achieve success. Contact us to learn more.

Afterburner Executive Consultant, Patrick "Lips" Houlahan is a U.S. Marine Corps aviator and Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Army War College (USAWC).|

Building beneficial habits and culture are a big corporate leadership development challenge, but yield great rewards once picked up by your team.

With a Mission Command approach demonstrate the importance of giving your front line people the power to act with a bias to action.

The Debriefing Solution is for any team in any environment! It's a powerful tool used to enhance performance in just 20 minutes!