Programs
Break your PERFORMANCE BARRIERS
with the AFTERBURNER DAY
Team Building Program!
Imagine your next meeting — just as you finish breakfast, five men and women Fighter Pilots break into the room! You are about to experience the most powerful team building experience in the world: The Afterburner Day. Today you and your team are going to learn how Fighter Pilots execute missions flawlessly in the most hostile environments on the planet — and how you can do the same in your environment. You will plan a real mission and Debrief it just like a Fighter Pilot. The skills you learn you will not forget — because you'll be using them on the job the next day!
9:00 AM: Get ready, the Fighter Pilots are looking for YOU — and your day has just changed!
You and your team are ordered to the Main Briefing Room where you enter through a camouflage netting tunnel. Parachutes are hanging from the ceiling, Top Gun music is blaring, and jets are flying across a giant screen. This is NOT your typical meeting. In fact, it's only just beginning. And Afterburner has not only set the tone for your meeting, they have set the tone for your next month and your next year.
"Having been involved with many team building' type exercises before, I can honestly say yours was the most relevant, practical, entertaining and thought-stimulating program I have ever seen."
Joseph C. Lane, President
IBM Credit Corporation
10:00 AM: Learn to work as a team in the most challenging environment we can create.
Welcome to the Afterburner Day team building event — where we give you our high-energy, motivational speakers, legendary multimedia graphics and rare video footage. And we are just getting started.
While you are still riveted by the first keynote session, your team breaks into "squadrons" of 15 and quickly moves to breakout rooms. Now you get to use the skills you just learned to plan a real military mission. During this Mission Planning Exercise, your team has to work together to overcome big challenges — changing weather, spies, jets running out of fuel and a special secret challenge known only to Afterburner alumni!
"We have had various keynote speakers and team building programs over the last 20 years, but none as invigorating and as on target as yours. As you know, we have a very aggressive group of salesguys that are tough to keep involved for more than 15 minutes. You guys kept them on the edge of their seats for 4 hours."
Scott Jordan, Executive Vice President
Ted Lansing Corporation
11:30 AM: You and your team will have lunch with the Fighter Pilots.
12:15 PM: Learn how to overcome team “MELTDOWN”.
When you finish your Mission, you will go to lunch and report back to the Main Briefing Room to learn about the silent killer: Task Saturation®. Have you ever had a meltdown? You'll learn what it is, how Fighter Pilots manage it, and how you can, too.
"Outstanding! The Afterburners seminars taught us how to…… I would recommend your group to any business that is serious about team building and taking their employees to the next level. "
Joe Cappelletti, President
ADI
1:30 PM: Learn the power of Debriefing.
Finally, you will learn the power of a nameless, rankless Debrief. In fact, you won't just learn about it — you'll do it. With the help of an Afterburner Fighter Pilot, you will Debrief the Mission you planned earlier in the day.
"You did a terrific job helping the team here translate what they learned in the Afterburner team building seminars into how they can apply it to what they do each and every day, and I'm happy to report we've already begun to already see a return on our investment. People throughout the organization are not only talking about the need to debrief more often, they're actually doing it."
Meredyth Makris, Human Resources Manager
GE Healthcare Financial Services
2:30 PM: The Afterburner Day wraps up and your team walks out with solid takeaways.
Afterburner is a motivational team building experience. That's a given. However, the power of our programs lies in the Flawless Execution ModelSM. Flawless Execution is a dynamic and powerful team building tool because it is simple to use, yet it has lasting effects. Once you understand it and you and your team start using it, you have total control over all situations. No, you can't control the competition or predict the future...but you will know how to overcome these threats to maintain the flexibility you need to succeed in your uncertain future. This is the path of Flawless Execution.
In military combat, when lives and $30 million dollar aircraft are at stake, Fighter Pilots may not recall complicated management models. But they will remember what they're taught about Flawless Execution. And so will you and your team.
"The concepts that we were taught 'Brief, Execute, Debrief' were so relative to our business that I find our staff now applying these approaches in their daily business dealings."
William L. Ashton, Vice President, Corporate Accounts
AMGEN
It's not a “macho” thing, it's a Flawless Execution thing.
Guys love jets — sort of like NASCAR with wings. But this is only a small piece of what Afterburner is all about. The heart of our message is not about male bravado, jets, or war — it's about the process men and women Fighter Pilots use to achieve Flawless ExecutionSM. Women find this message as empowering as men. This is especially true when we talk about the nameless, rankless Debrief — a method we use to accelerate our experience by giving everyone a voice in the process.
"...One other point. Our concerns over the Afterburner's theme being too 'macho' for the women of the group turned out to be totally unfounded. All of the women in our company really got into the breakout exercises."
Mark McGraw, Manager of Sales, EMT Americas
Philips
Have your global team learn teamwork from the most successful global team on the planet.
Think about it — how does NATO, for example, execute perfectly-coordinated missions with pilots from many nationalities? They do it using the same Flawless Execution ModelSM we teach at Afterburner team building events — the same model that can help a diverse international team execute perfectly-coordinated missions in their own business environment. With offices in 5 countries and clients in 18 countries, and a diverse staff of our own, we know how to make everyone feel a part of your team building event.
"Initially we had concerns about Afterburner and the war going on. We had people from the US, UK, France, Germany, China, Japan, and Australia all coming to the same event! Our goal was to create alignment with our global operations, and the Afterburner helped us do just that. Your message of 'Plan. Brief. Execute. Debrief.' resonated with our people. We are beginning to use these tools and look forward to building on them with future leadership workshops."
Christophe Culine, SVP Worldwide Operations
Mirapoint
Afterburner Team Building Events Will Make Your Team FLAWLESS!!
You will build a FLAWLESS team, that excels in every task it undertakes — collectively and individually — when you use the methods you'll learn in the Afterburner Day team building event. If you are ready to book the best corporate team building event available today, click here for our FREE DVD. If you're still not convinced, read a few more of our client testimonials...
"I can honestly say that in my 27 years of experience in the travel industry this was the best learning and motivational experience I have seen. We are still feeling the effects of the Flawless Execution model of 'Plan, Brief, Execute, Debrief,' and I am very impressed with the way your team building seminar has changed the way we do business and stayed with our sales force even months after the fact."
Randall L. Russell, Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Couples Resorts
"It is now one week after the Flawless Execution Afterburner Seminar, and the people in attendance are still talking about the training, Our 2004 National Sales Meeting was a huge success thanks to your professionalism and belief in the principles of Flawless Execution. ."
Steve Mack
Fast-Tax
"The impact that the Afterburner team building seminar had was incredible. Not only was it the highest rated segment of our annual meetings, but our store managers have begun to apply what they learned on a day-to-day basis. The Afterburner team building seminar received a standing ovation after every one of its programs. This has never happened before."
David Bogage, Director of Management Development
Home Depot
To schedule a team building event, or for more information, call us today at (800) 261-2912, or click here for our FREE DVD.