Project Management - Lessons learned from the Navy SEALs
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The document discusses 11 lessons learned from the U.S. Navy SEALs that can be applied to project management. It describes how the SEALs operate in small teams with specialized roles. The lessons include having a clear mission and target, forming a diverse team, planning for expected and unexpected events, emphasizing teamwork, allowing specialists to lead, using checkpoints to debrief and adjust plans, maintaining focus, being patient, helping others, and celebrating both wins and near wins. A bonus section notes how new generations are already familiar with these concepts from role-playing games.
Project Management - Lessons learned from the Navy SEALs
- 1. project management S.E.A.L (support excellence & attitude in leadership) lesson learned from the Navy SEALs white pages by samedi 7 janvier 12
- 2. wHO ARE THE NAVY sEAL SEAL stands for Sea, Air, Land, and the SEALs are the U.S. Navy's most acclaimed special ops unit. They operate mainly in 16-man groups and are capable of conducting top-secret ground- and water-based missions. Larger teams are often divided into "cells" to work at evasion and recovery, force protection, sniper duties, and so forth. The 11 lessons they have taught us in project management (dont worry these methods have been tested in Grenada, Iraq, Bosnie, Panama...etc) samedi 7 janvier 12
- 3. 1 mission TARGET Make sure the mission is clear and the target well identified samedi 7 janvier 12
- 4. 2 team SUPPORT ENGINEER RECON ASSAULT Every mission starts with its TEAM Make sure it is diversified samedi 7 janvier 12
- 5. 3 PLAN Failing to plan is planning to fail Plan even the unforeseen samedi 7 janvier 12
- 6. 4 teamWORK EVERYONE TOGETHER MORE ACHIEVES A TEAM is more then the sum of its individuals TEAMWORK gets the job done samedi 7 janvier 12
- 7. 5 leadership SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT LEADER Let every specialist be the leader in his field Encourage others to give support samedi 7 janvier 12
- 8. 6 checkpoints Without checkpoints you go off course These are excellent opportunities to debrief samedi 7 janvier 12
- 9. 7 ADJUST Adjust direction when needed Dont be stubborn and always leave room to adjust samedi 7 janvier 12
- 10. 8 FOCUS FOCUS Focus is key to getting anything done! Never lose sight of your target. samedi 7 janvier 12
- 11. 9 patience Dont rush!!! Rushing will compromise your team and the mission. samedi 7 janvier 12
- 12. 10 help No one stays behind! Make sure the strongest help the others. samedi 7 janvier 12
- 13. 11 celebrate Celebrate save returns not only wins You win, you lose, nobody wins them all!! samedi 7 janvier 12
- 14. BONUS new generation The young upcoming generation has no problem with these methods. They have used them over and over again in their strategic role playing games : Build target based TEAMS with perfect strangers Focus only on what everyone has to bring to the TEAM Stay focused on the target Communicate to readjust strategy at any time Think quick and take decisions Adapt the approach to the desired effect... etc samedi 7 janvier 12
- 15. Yet another WHITE PAGE by www.companyvitamines.com samedi 7 janvier 12