Battle Ready: Cultivating Culture through Trust, Teamwork, Purpose, and Ownership
VP-47 was down on their luck. Two Commanding Officers were fired for personal misconduct. The disgraced Skippers represented the tip of the iceberg; a squadron mired in management misconduct and failed leadership. One year later the Sailors at VP-47 took command of their destiny, and their efforts ranked the squadron #1 in morale, leadership, and communications. Cultivating culture through trust, teamwork, purpose, and ownership was essential in VP-47's rise to the top.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand that organizational culture's impact on employee performance is profound and is completely within the control of the leader.
- Establishing trust is ultimately the leader's responsibility and will require the leader to get uncomfortable during intentional efforts to show care.
- Encourage teamwork by creating opportunities for your employees to come together, policies to keep them together, and incentives to encourage them to work together.
- Link your employees' purpose to our unknown desire to serve others.
- Leverage the power of ownership by communicating what success looks like and letting your employees chart the course.
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Thomas Ryan Davis
Skipper T. Ryan Davis is a 20+ year Retired Naval Officer with 4,000 hours of flight time encompassing multiple deployments in support of combat operations around the globe. His most recent assignment was as the Commanding Officer for Patrol Squadron 47, a P-8 squadron responsible for executing the nation’s maritime strategy. During that tour of duty, Commander Davis led his team of 300 Sailors through organizational culture change resulting in the highest morale on record across all VP squadrons, being awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Association Leadership Award, and earning the Battle “E” award for efficiency. CDR Davis has proven himself a passionate leader who cares about people.
Ryan is the Founder of Take Flight Leadership, an organization helping individuals and organizations achieve their goals. He is the author of Take Flight: Cultivating Culture Through Trust, Teamwork, Purpose, & Ownership. Ryan certified as a SHRM Senior Certified Professional, a Resilience-Building Leader Program Trainer, and as a BCSP Associate Safety Professional to better help him serve the teams he works with.