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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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5 REACHING BEYOND BOUNDARIES

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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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



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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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.”




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”


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 "


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).


• 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.


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


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


1. Your Own 2. All Rankings 3 .Team 4. Team

Ranking Separated by Commas Ranking Score

Survival Exercise: Ranking & Scoring

Survival

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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


Survival Exercise: Observer (continued)

Individual Team Member Functioning: Actions and Outcomes

Person’s Name:

Positive Behaviors Results or Impacts

Blocking Behaviors Results or Impacts


Person’s Name:




Person’s Name:



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Survival Exercise: Observer


Person’s Name:

Positive Behaviors/Group Patterns Results or Impacts

Blocking Behaviors/Group Patterns Results or Impacts


Person’s Name:




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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


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

Overall Workshop Design Poor Fair Average Good Excellent

Overall Value 1 2 3 4 5

Relevance to Job 1 2 3 4 5

Specific Content Helpfulness Poor Fair Average Good Excellent

Combat Mindset Concepts (Macro/Micro Goals, 1 2 3 4 5

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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What Was Most Valuable?

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