US Corporate Team Management Tour

US Corporate Team Management Tour

13th to 18th October 2024

The cost – includes breakfast, lunch and dinner, hotel accommodation, coach, museums and guide, although the flights are not included – is £7,500 per person.

Please note that this tour is strictly limited to 15 people.

The aims of the tour

The core structure of organisations is its teams. But, most organisations invest large parts of their resources in developing individuals and very little in developing those same teams. No matter how well individuals perform, they are highly unlikely to reach their full potential unless the team in which they’re situated is also performing to its full potential.

Research has shown that team coaching can significantly help teams improve their performance, with benefits for the wider organisation.

The tour is designed to show the parallels and differences between military and corporate team leadership at both board and junior management levels.

The tour will examine how planning and adaptation affected the decisions and actions of generals and small combat groups during the Normandy landings, the largest seaborne invasion in history.

We start with the critical role of detailed planning and logistics to the success of the battle, looking at the Allies’ intelligence and deception plan, and consider whether these are still relevant in today’s business environment.

We will look at how systemic factors such as politics impacted the Allied and German high command and how these are related to modern boardrooms.

We look at what was learnt from previous and real time mistakes and how these were adapted to make these landings such a success. Also, we examine past mistakes that were not adapted with sometimes catastrophic consequences, and the parallels in business.

Lastly, we look at the morale and fighting spirit (the ‘culture’) of the generals and soldiers on both sides and see how, when all looks lost, teams rally to firm, empathetic and decisive leadership.