TRUST BASED TEAMWORK

by Commander Rick Searfoss, CSP

The Secrets and Strategies of
Trust Based Teams like Top Gun Pilots, Astronaut Crew Members,
and Highly Successful Companies.

Rick Searfoss, CSP, was awarded the coveted "Speaker of the Year Award" twice, and is the top rated keynote speaker, motivational speaker, and professional speaker for the American Speakers Bureau Corporation.

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Background: Successful human space missions demand that hundreds of different teams perform together flawlessly and consistently, with the flight crew as much at the top of their game as a World Series or Super Bowl team, and with the added pressure that crewmates must literally trust their lives to one another. An awesome model for any team venture, and this program will show you the astronauts' secrets for unrivaled teamwork when everything's on the line!

Purpose: Learn how to accelerate your team's ascent to your own highest point - the pinnacle of team cohesion and performance.

Designed for: all team players from rookie to mentor to leader, anyone who needs to works collaboratively in team settings

Topics/Points covered:

Trustworthiness - the First Requirement

Tailoring Individual Strengths to the Team

Training and Preparing Like It Really Matters

Mutually Supporting Your Crewmates

Managing Crew Resources

Welcoming Mistake-Driven Learning

Productive Debriefing

Developing a Culture of Inherent Success

Special Features: Trust-based Teamwork draws on more than twenty-five years experience in every team role in fighter jet squadrons, test flying teams, space flight crews, and especially in serving as the prime team builder and leader as a Space Shuttle commander. This high content program is focused on what really works in executing effective teamwork, illustrated and amplified with unique real-world examples and magnificent imagery and video. It can be tailored for any size group in any duration from 30-minute keynote to full-day program.

Results: Everyone completing this program will understand and be able to apply the teamwork model used by America's team - the astronauts - in successfully completing the most dynamic, difficult, and dangerous team undertakings on or off our planet.

Rick's vast client list includes organizations, from small enterprises to major corporations, including many of the Fortune 500. Rick Searfoss is well known for his ability to combine his business, technical and international experience with your organization's unique mission, and deliver a presentation specifically customized to your situation. Rick Searfoss has different presentations designed for groups as diverse high tech and low tech, sales, service, finance insurance, engineering, safety, technology and manufacturing.

Rick Searfoss, Colonel, USAF Retired, former Top Gun fighter pilot, test pilot, and astronaut, is a distinguished teamwork and leadership expert speaker who has piloted or commanded three highly successful space missions. As a mission commander, Rick is one of less than a hundred people in history ever chosen to command a human space mission. Today, Rick Searfoss stays very busy as an aerospace industry executive, innovator, spokesperson, test pilot and business development expert with several entrepreneurial "New Civilian Space Companies" creating the new millennium's most leading edge technologies.

Living what Rick Searfoss speaks about: Innovation, teamwork, leadership, and peak performance in action!

In August 2008, Astronaut Speaker and Top Gun test pilot, Colonel Rick Searfoss, successfully delivered at his biggest solo performance in front of over 100,000 aviation enthusiasts as the test pilot for the incredible team from XCOR Aerospace. Rick is the world's only tri-qualified rocket test pilot. Rick Searfoss flew the XCOR Aerospace experimental prototype rocket racing aircraft for three low altitude aerobatics demonstration flights to the amazement and delight of the crowd at the world's largest air show, the Oshkosh AirVenture, to showcase XCOR's fantastic new innovations and technologies.

This new level of record breaking, peak performance flying evolves into great stories about focus, confidence, teamwork and leadership in his presentations, plus, fantastic business innovation samples and stories of the principles that Rick Searfoss addresses as the Top Gun, Astronaut Speaker!"

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