"Right Stuff" Resiliency - Transcending Adversity

Background: Forging out into dangerous, dynamic, risky territory takes a special mindset and skills - "Right Stuff" Resiliency. Astronauts train continually to deal with adversity, emergencies, and "off-nominal" situations. Their experiences provide powerful tools for overcoming adversity in uncertain, tough situations.

Purpose: Prepare for the future by understanding and applying key principles to effectively focus on business success and growth in challenging, turbulent times.

Designed for: Teams and individuals committed to success regardless of current challenges or difficulties.

Topics/Points covered:

1. Choosing the hard - how determined mission focus overcomes competition
2. Total awareness - of environment, threats, self, team - key to sensing and adapting to trends driving the future
3. Adapting and thriving on stress ("No use dying all tensed up!") - what you must do to face constantly changing global, political, and technology realities
4. Always pressing forward - creating courageous commitment
5. Seeing and seizing opportunities - for business and personal growth and development
6. Flexible optimism and dynamic tension - creating the right balance between sense of urgency and maintaining big picture perspective to optimize team performance
7. Staying out of the snake pit - maintaining control and strengthening your team's sense of ownership to overcome multiple pressing dangers

Special Features: Through specific, relevant examples illustrated within the fascinating backdrop of astronaut training and preparation, this program will teach you the key principles astronaut pilots and commanders use to succeed in the face of intense pressures, constraints, and adversity. Adaptable to any duration from keynote to full-day program, it may be customized to focus in detail on any of the topics above plus the group's specific issues, and is suitable for any size audience.

Results: You will strengthen your own and your team's resilience, adaptability, and ability to forge ahead. Reach greater success in challenging, competitive, tough times and environments as you apply the lessons and examples of "Right Stuff" Resilience

Rick Searfoss, Colonel, USAF Retired, former astronaut, is a distinguished teamwork and leadership expert speaker who has piloted or commanded three highly successful space missions. As a mission commander, he is also one of less than a hundred people in history ever chosen to command a human space mission and has led his teams through major real-world, life- and mission-threatening emergencies and challenges.