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REACHING
BEYOND
BOUNDARIES
Execution and Teamwork
through a Navy SEAL Mindset
DON MANN SEAL Team SIX
Endurance Athlete
NY Times Best Selling Author
Presentation and take-home
PROGRAM
Reaching Beyond Boundaries Execution and Teamwork Though a Navy SEAL Mindset
Purpose
Learning Goals
This course applies the mental toughness and self-discipline derived from competitive athletics
and Navy SEAL experiences to the day to day “combat” of working in today’s competitive,
challenging, world of work in order to reach and exceed your boundaries, achieve stellar results,
and enhance team functioning. This package includes Don Mann’s “Reaching Beyond
Boundaries” presentation on the Navy SEAL mindset, and a (take-home) Navy SEAL training
exercise designed at enhancing individual and team performance, and a dynamic debriefing
exercise to surface and anchor for future use the following capabilities:
“REACHING BEYOND BOUNDARIES”
Don describes how a competitive, team-focused COMBAT MINDSET has served him as a
world-class athlete and Navy SEAL, through life-threatening situations where giving up,
lack of a superordinate goal, and failure to work together were detrimental to the mission,
often resulting in loss of life. You will enhance:
• Mental Toughness and Self-Discipline in times of facing extreme challenges.
• Turning Macro Goals into Micro Goals to make lofty tasks manageable.
• Team and Mission Focus to always maintain integrity in the face of adversity.
SEAL TEAM SURVIVAL TRAINING (take home exercise) This Navy SEAL simulated training exercise demonstrates how well teams think and interact in
stressful situations, and how group interdependency aids in the cultivation of:
• Mission Focus to guide strategy analysis and set precision objectives.
• Intra-Group Communication to improve information flow, conflict management, and flexibility.
• Information processing skills to optimize critical information analysis and group decision-making.
“Nothing can STOP the person with the right mindset
from achieving his or her goal(s). Nothing can HELP the
person with a weak mindset.
- Don Mann Author, Inside SEAL Team Six
5/21/2013
Slides and Notes
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Reaching Beyond Boundaries Tracking Your Corporate Combat Mindset
Purpose To retain the elements of the SEAL Mindset and apply them to your own “mission.”
Directions Please jot notes on the next few pages to help you capture the ideas that resonate most from this
presentation, and after Don is finished, on page 11, rate yourself on each of the Combat Mindset’s
ten ingredients. Since this session is aimed at being both motivating and at making a practical impact,
reflect upon how the concepts apply to your own individual and team results on these few pages. You
may be given time to discuss your insights with a learning partner.
Turn Macro Goals into Micro Goals Key Ideas Relevance to My Life
Set Your Goals High Key Ideas Relevance to My Life
“Although there were always so many athletes so much
faster, stronger, smarter, and more experienced than I
have even been, my mindset allowed me to compete in
the same arena with them and I played to win.”
- Don Mann Author, Inside Seal Team Six
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Reaching Beyond Boundaries Tracking Your Corporate Combat Mindset
Know and Defy Your Personal Limitations Key Ideas Relevance to My Life
Giving Up is Never an Option (Professional vs. Novice Mindset) Key Ideas Relevance to My Life
“A man must not withdraw from the
sport without having given at least
once in his lifetime, all that he had!”
- Mark Allen Six Time Champion, Ironman Hawaii
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Reaching Beyond Boundaries Tracking Your Corporate Combat Mindset
Commit to Excellence Key Ideas Relevance to My Life
Don’t Give Up On Your Dream Key Ideas Relevance to My Life
“You’ve got to live before you can
afford to die.”
-John Steinbeck
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Reaching Beyond Boundaries Tracking Your Corporate Combat Mindset
Maintain High Integrity in the Face of Adversity Key Ideas Relevance to My Work/Life
Welcome Pain as Building Strength and Stamina Key Ideas Relevance to My Work/Life
“The more sweat and tears shed in
training, the less blood shed in war.”
- Don Mann Author, Inside Seal Team Six
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Reaching Beyond Boundaries Tracking Your Corporate Combat Mindset
Stay Focused on the Mission/Objectives Key Ideas Relevance to My Work/Life
Stay Committed to Your Team/Comrades Key Ideas Relevance to My Work/Life
“One of the greatest tragedies in life is
not Death. But what we let die inside
of ourselves while we Live”
- Don Mann Author, Inside Seal Team Six
Slides and Notes
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Thank you for your attention and self-reflection during this presentation.
I wish you great success in applying these
combat mindset principles to your life.
Don D. Mann "The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday "
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Rating Yourself on Your Combat
Mindset
Mindset Components Turning Macro Goals into Micro Goals
Set Your Goals High
Know and Defy Your Personal Limitations
Giving Up is Never an Option
(Professional vs. Novice Mindset)
Commit to Excellence
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Jot notes about any changes you can make in order to be even more effective:
“The real tragedy for most people is not that they set their goals too high and do not
achieve them, but that they set their goals too low and do achieve them.”
– Don Mann
Author, Inside SEAL Team Six
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SEAL Survival (take home) Exercise Overview
SEAL Survival Exercise at a Glance
The Navy SEAL Team Survival Exercise involves a notional mission that requires group members
to prioritize a list of items they can take with them for survival. Because the exercise first involves
individuals’ rank ordering the survival items and then discussing and reaching group consensus, the
experience allows groups to gauge very quickly how well the participants think and interact with the
rest of the group. This SEAL exercise allows participants and observers to understand and respond
to individual and team strengths and weaknesses. The exercise also demonstrates how depending
on one another increases chances of survival and success in business.
Exercise Purposes and Outcomes
The Navy SEAL Survival Training Survival Exercise provides an opportunity for teams to practice and
improve:
• Working in a stressful environment while employing the Combat Mindset philosophy discussed in the
“Reaching Beyond Boundaries” presentation given this morning;
• Teamwork, the power of working together, mission focus;
• Listening, communication skills, engaging with a team;
• Individual and group decision-making, processing information, interpersonal problem-solving.
Steps of the SEAL Survival Exercise
1) Briefing (13 min.)- Your team will together read the Mission Briefing to provide an overview of the
Exercise. This Briefing can be found on the next three pages of this Workbook.
2) Set-Up (2 min.)- Each team will appoint a Timer, Scorer, and Observer,
3) Rank Ordering and Scoring Survival Items- To emphasize individual versus team decision-making, the
Survival Exercise is split into two parts: the individual ranking and team ranking.
• Individuals make their own individual selections first, on Workbook page 23 (5 minutes)
• Groups then discuss and create a team list (25 min.). Each team is required to list its rank order of
all 15 survival items prior to seeing the SEAL Team POC responses (Answer Sheet). The exercise is
to be completed without the use of tactics such as voting, trading in or averaging. The facilitator will
look for participants that might avoid conflict or changing their minds simply to come to agreement
and will watch for an over-emphasis by anyone needing 100% accurate answers. Consensus may
be hard to reach, but the objective is for all participants to at least partially agree to each ranking.
• Next, the Team Scorer with retrieve the Answer Sheet (SEAL Team POC responses).
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• Teams compare individual and team performances according to the SEAL Team POC responses
(Answer Sheet). The Team Scorer awards points to each team’s choices. See scoring directions on
page 21. The lowest score wins (and survives).
2. Self Reflection, Large-and Small-Group Discussion and Debriefing- A structured self-reflection activity
and debrief phase will help participants distill their personal and group insights and learning to apply.
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SEAL Survival Exercise
Background
Mission Briefing
You have successfully completed the mandatory basic training required to provide operational and logistical
support to Naval Special Warfare (NSW). You have been vetted and approved by the Department of the
Navy to provide support in select missions on the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). Since your team has
just finished a five-day convention in Casablanca, Morocco and you have two days of free time before your
return to the US, you have been requested by NSW to support Delta Platoon, SEAL Team One (ST-1).
Given your close proximity to Delta Platoon’s area of operation (AO), you are the ideal team to support this
mission requirement.
Delta Platoon’s AO for the past four months has been the Algerian desert. They have a specific request and
for cover reasons they require civilian logistical support. All of your communications to the SEAL Team will
be through a SEAL member who was selected to be your POC as he is considered one of the top desert
survival experts in the SPECOPS community. Your cover for status for this operation is that you have just
finished attending a business convention in Morocco and decided to do some additional adventure travel in
the area.
Intelligence Report
On 20 Sept. 2013, thirty-seven foreigners of eight nationalities were killed by militants in a well-planned
attack on a remote gas plant. The four-day crisis at the InAmenas gas plant located in Algeria, deep in
the Sahara, produced one of the worst hostage bloodbaths in years. The CIA reports the deaths of seven
Japanese, six Filipinos, three Americans, three Britons, two Romanians, one Algerian and one
Frenchman. Algerian Special Forces rescued 685 Algerian and 107 foreign hostages during the rescue
operation.
Five survivors, who have been targeted by the terrorists, have been evading capture since the raid by
hiding out in a small desert cavern and are awaiting evacuation. North Africa is becoming a magnet for
jihadists from other countries, and the threat there now outweighs that from terrorist hotbeds in Afghanistan
and Pakistan. Most Intelligence reporting states the attack at InAmenas is only the beginning of many more
planned attacks. This is the primary reason ST-1 is actively engaged in missions in this AO.
ST-1, Delta Platoon, is tasked with providing hostages with basic survival gear until they are rescued in the
next 4-7 days. The only survival items available in the AO are the items you will carry with you and deliver.
Your team is to meet with a trusted asset who will provide you with commercial air transport over the
Sahara Desert to Dakhla, Morocco, a small town approximately 1800 km from Casablanca. In Dakhla you
will board a covert helicopter and will fly to an airstrip approximately 170 km inside the border of Algeria.
Specific coordinates will be provided prior to your departure. You will soon receive instructions regarding
when and where to link up with your ST-1 POC. It is advised that you wear suitable clothing for the 40 -115
degree F desert temperatures. Due to an engine fire your plane is forced to makes an emergency landing
approximately 200 km short of the airstrip. You were able to send a situation report to your ST-1 POC and
apprise him of your GPS coordinates.
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• Vodka • 15 Gallons of water • Pocket knife
• Raincoat • Pistol w/ full magazine • Sunglasses
• Map • Parachute • First aid kit
• Book • Compass • Top coat
• Flashlight • Salt tablets • Mirror
SEAL Survival Exercise Mission Briefing (continued)
Just minutes after your team exited the aircraft it caught on fire and exploded. The pilot and co-pilot
were killed in the explosion but fortunately no one on your team was killed or injured.
Your POC reports back that because of the political unrest in the AO, an evacuation is too risky at
this time and it could compromise the SEAL mission. Your orders remain unchanged. Before the
aircraft caught on fire you and your teammates were able to salvage the below items:
Your SEAL POC provided you with coordinates and instructed you to travel 30 km, at a 084 degree
bearing to avoid compromise. Your POC will meet you at this location and will take the survival
items from you to bring to the cavern. Because of the weight of the items and the size of your
packs, your team is unable to carry all of the items you have recovered from the aircraft. With only
being able to carry five of the select items from the wreckage, your team must discuss how will you
survive, and what will you carry with you on this 30 km desert crossing. Your ST-1 POC requests
that the team evacuate from the site as quickly as possible, so you must come up with a plan prior
to departing the aircraft.
In reality, during such survival situations, people who do not remain near crash sites, particularly in
desert regions, do not survive long, due to the heat and lack of water. However, in this simulation,
we are assuming that you are unable to remain with your aircraft, due to security reasons, and you
were asked to evacuate the crash site.
Final POC Instructions
Your POC therefore requests that each member of the team individually rank the 15 survival items
for the team to take with them, in order of importance. ( “1” being most important and “15” being
least important). He requests that you write down your individually ranked list of survival items.
He gives you 5 minutes to complete this task. Once the 5 minutes is up, he requests that you all
work together as a team to create a team list and then send a Team Scorer to retrieve the “correct”
responses with his POC responses Answer Sheet. He gives you 25 minutes to complete this task.
SEAL Survival Exercise
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Mission Briefing (continued)
Your SEAL POC requests that you adhere to the following guidelines:
In order for you to come up with the best survival plan possible will require your team to employ
a consensus in reaching its decision. This requires that each team member must agree upon the
ranking for each of the 15 survival items before it becomes part of the final team list. Consensus is
often difficult to reach, so not every ranking will meet with everyone’s approval. Still, do your best to
make each ranking one that all team members can at least partially agree on (“I can live with it.”).
• Approach the task on the basis of a logical and rational evaluation of information and opinions.
• Avoid taking an entrenched position in defense of your own individual judgments. Remember
that a Combat Mindset means to focus on the team’s welfare and comrades as a greater good.
• Avoid changing your mind in order to reach agreement or to avoid conflict unless you have
been genuinely persuaded by the arguments put forward by other team mates. Only support
those solutions that you are able to agree to an extent.
• Avoid ‘conflict reducing’ techniques such as taking a majority vote, averaging views held, or
trading your vote to reach a decision.
• View differences of opinion as being helpful to the task, rather than as a hindrance to the
decision that needs to be made. (Remember that a Combat Mindset means focus on the
mission!])
• Allow, and encourage, other team mates to express their opinions.
How to Rank Items and Score
Ranking Phase. Each individual first rank orders all survival items in Column 1 (5 minutes). Next (25
minutes), after listing each team member’s individual rankings for each item in Column 2, each team
discusses their rankings and reaches consensus about how to list the team’s rank order choices of
survival items in Column 3 prior to sending the Team Scorer to retrieve the SEAL Team POC’s
Response (Answer Sheet).
Scoring Phase. To determine the Team Score for each item, the Team Scorer compares the ranking
from the POC responses (Answer Sheet) with the team’s ranking. If a team’s item ranking is the
same as the POC’s, the score is 0 for that item (best possible score). If a team’s ranking is either
higher or lower than the POC’s, the item score in Column 4 is the number of points the team ranking
deviates from the POC’s ranking. For example, if the POC ranked an item “4,” the Team Score is “3”
if the team ranked it “7” (+3 too high) or “1” (- 3 too low). The Team Scorer writes the correct item
score in Column 4 of the Ranking and Scoring Sheet. Next, add up the TEAM TOTAL score. The
lowest score wins (and survives), since this team score amounts to the fewest deviations from the
POC answers. Naturally, each team member may want to also jot the score on his/her worksheet.
as the team takes 20 minutes for this scoring and discussion phase as they compare the POC
responses compared with the team’s consensus decisions.
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Slides and Notes
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1. Your Own 2. All Rankings 3 .Team 4. Team
Ranking Separated by Commas Ranking Score
Survival Exercise: Ranking & Scoring
Survival
Item
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Flashlight
Pocket Knife
Map
Raincoat
Compass
First Aid Kit
Pistol
(with full magazine)
Parachute
Salt Tablets
(bottle of 500 tabs)
Water (2 litres per person)
Book: Edible Animals of the
Desert
Sunglasses for each person
2 litres of vodka (80% proof)
1 overcoat per person
A mirror
YOUR OWN
ITEM SCORE
TOTAL
YOUR TEAM’S
ITEM SCORE
TOTAL
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Survival Exercise: Observer
Directions 1. Your role is to add to the Survival Exercise’s successful insights and learning.
2. Below and on the next page, jot bullet points to help you give feedback to the group as a
whole and to individual team members about their functioning during the debriefing.
3. Jot down objective, factual observations of helpful and hindering BEHAVIORS and the
RESULTS or apparent impact of these positive and blocking actions by the group or individuals.
4. Be constructive by balancing positive observations about optimal functioning and constructive
actions and by avoiding language that is blaming, vague, or inferential.
5. Stay objective and behavioral in your notes and language by using “The Camera Test”––
would a camera record it? For instance, a camera doesn’t record “rude,” but it does record “you
interrupted someone seven times before they were finished with their thought.”
Team Functioning as a Group: Actions, Patterns, and Outcomes
Positive Behaviors/Group Patterns Results or Impacts
Blocking Behaviors/Group Patterns Results or Impacts
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Survival Exercise: Observer (continued)
Individual Team Member Functioning: Actions and Outcomes
Person’s Name:
Positive Behaviors Results or Impacts
Blocking Behaviors Results or Impacts
Individual Team Member Functioning: Actions and Outcomes
Person’s Name:
Positive Behaviors Results or Impacts
Blocking Behaviors Results or Impacts
Individual Team Member Functioning: Actions and Outcomes
Person’s Name:
Positive Behaviors Results or Impacts
Blocking Behaviors Results or Impacts
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Survival Exercise: Observer
Individual Team Member Functioning: Actions and Outcomes
Person’s Name:
Positive Behaviors/Group Patterns Results or Impacts
Blocking Behaviors/Group Patterns Results or Impacts
Individual Team Member Functioning: Actions and Outcomes
Person’s Name:
Positive Behaviors Results or Impacts
Blocking Behaviors Results or Impacts
Individual Team Member Functioning: Actions and Outcomes
Person’s Name:
Positive Behaviors Results or Impacts
Blocking Behaviors
Results or Impacts
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Survival Exercise
Your Thoughts and Feelings About the Team Functioning
Your Constructive Actions and Roles
Your Blocking/Hindering Actions and Roles
Your Level of Rigidity Versus Listening
How Well You Employed a “Combat Mindset”
• Focus on Higher Goals
• Focus on Excellence
• Focus on Self-Discipline
• Focus on the Mission
• Focus on the Team/Comrades
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Slides and Notes
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Survival Exercise Debriefing Observer, Self, and Team Evaluation
Directions 1. As a team, discuss your Observer’s comments, as well as each team member’s insights.
2. Jot notes below to capture your own conclusions from the activity.
3. Strive for giving constructive feedback about blocks in a non-attacking way that seeks learning,
not blame. Similarly, aim for being non-defensive when you get input about your actions.
4. Also discuss how group decisions are more accurate than individual answers, and the
importance of collaborative group decision-making. An important learning point of this exercise
can be that sometimes a bit of give and take is necessary in order to move forward to a solution.
Debrief Questions
How did your team make your decisions? How did people feel about the decisions? How could better decisions have been made?
What roles were adopted (leader, group process monitor, diplomat, devil’s advocate, etc.)?
How well did various team members listen to each other?
Did some team members believe their individual plan was better? How did they behave?
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Survival Exercise Debriefing (continued)
Debrief Questions (continued)
How was conflict managed?
What kinds of behavior helped or hindered the group?
What have team members learned about group functioning?
What would team members do differently next time?
What situations at work do you think are similar to this exercise?
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Reaching Beyond Boundaries Course Evaluation Date
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Relevance to Job 1 2 3 4 5
Specific Content Helpfulness Poor Fair Average Good Excellent
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Never giving Up, Focus on Mission & Team)
Reaching Beyond Boundaries Talk & Self-Rating 1 2 3 4 5
SEAL Survival Exercise (Individual and Team 1 2 3 4 5
Prioritizing and Consensus Building Activity)
Debriefing the SEAL Survival Exercise 1 2 3 4 5
Trainer: Don Mann
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