Teams

Team Trust During Difficult Times

Audio Version: https://soundcloud.com/jan-rutherford-585145694/team-trust-during-difficult-times I welcome Candice Frost and Tim Cole to discuss the foundation of any meaningful human relationship - trust. Candice brings the perspective of a career...
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What Do a Special Operations Soldier and an Executive Have in Common?

The Self-Reliant Crucible Expedition is designed for executives and veterans to take their leadership abilities to new levels. The challenge and intensity of the trip maps to today's business climate....
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What Happens When You Combine Special Operations Veterans & Business Executives in Patagonia?

The combination of audacity, adaptability, agility, and a high adversity quotient produced a team of teams. Self-Reliant Leadership has been running Crucible expeditions for a few years now with the...
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The 4 P’s for Building a New Team

Twelve of us are headed to Patagonia next month. In fact, we start our Crucible expedition in one month and one day. We’re a team of two technical guides, one leader, one...
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The Phrase to Know if Your Team is Committed or Compliant

Engaged, committed, accountable, selfless, team-oriented, courageous, resourceful, resilient, humble, disciplined… If we had our way, our teams would be comprised of near perfect humans. But alas… we are all works...
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5 Things That Will Not Happen With This Team

  The Self-Reliant Leadership CrucibleTM is an expedition designed for executives and transitioning Green Berets. Run twice yearly, the next Self Reliant Leadership CrucibleTM will begin on April 28th near...
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Building an “A Team” with Executives & Special Operations Veterans

We’ve just assembled a team for an expedition to Patagonia in October, and as we started to catalog the vast array of skills we’ll have, I realized we truly have...
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How to Know Your Team Knows What’s Expected of Them

It’s a refrain we here often: “I’m not sure I know exactly what’s expected of me.” It seems as simple as asking, but there are a myriad of reasons people...
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Want Alignment? Define Courage

The refrains of pain from the modern organization are familiar to us all, and the wish of many top executives is to have a team that's aligned. An aligned team...
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Leadership Development – A Profound Disconnect?

Jeffrey Pfeffer is a Professor at Stanford University, and the author of "Leadership BS" - his fourteenth book on leadership and organizational behavior. The book is the antithesis of what we...
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