• Proven and Repeatable Team-Building Management Development Tool
• A “Real World” Metaphor of Crisis Decision-Making
• Our program is designed by successful businessmen, who are also award-winning military historians
• Our design focus on the American Revolution & Civil War Division command level is directly relevant to today's CEO & senior Staff
• Experiential leadership training programs have an immediate, personal impact
• Workshops are management-oriented
• Interactive Case Study Method
• Close contact with senior executives, generals, academics
The Corporate Staff Ride Experience
The
Corporate Staff Ride is based on the century-old military training tool pioneered by the Prussian General Staff and now used in war colleges world-wide. Focused on the role of the Civil War corps/division commander - a particularly appropriate command level for today's senior enterprise manager - our
Corporate Staff Ride integrates the battlefield decisions and outcomes with the attendees' main interests through the case method approach. It requires no specialized knowledge - or even interest - in military affairs, only the acceptance that battles can provide useful "metaphors" for decision making under crisis conditions. As an experiential training environment,
the actual ground where great conflicts took place has an immediacy and impact that is hard to duplicate in any other forum.
Antietam Corporate Staff Ride
APPLIED BATTLEFIELD CONCEPTS LLC conducts an intensive, experiential learning-based, leadership and team-building exercise at Antietam National Battlefield, the site of the "bloodiest day" in American history. Utilizing a broad array of resources from the Official Reports, top scholars, military academies, archives, and libraries, the
Antietam Corporate Staff Ride takes the perspective of the Civil War corps-level commander during the one-day struggle between Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and George McClellan's Army of the Potomac. Check below for schedule and registration information.
Saratoga Corporate Staff Ride
The Saratoga Staff Ride is a corporate retreat tour of the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. Universally considered the crucial strategic victory of the Revolution, Saratoga pits the vainglorious British dandy Gen. John "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne against the ambitious American Gen. Horatio Gage, a would-be rival to George Washington. The Saratoga Staff Ride puts the campaign in the overall context of strategy and the conflicting global interests of France, England, Spain, Holland, and others during this crucial period of the revolution. Saratoga was a major operational victory as well, displaying a rich weave of great staff work, legendary leadership examples, and succesful crisis decision-making. While providing the irresistible event that moved the French to support the rebel government, Gates had succesfully defended the Hudson River and contributed significantly to the morale and reputation of the Continental Army.
Saratoga is a great experiential-learning investment for C-Suite level-executives on a short-duration team building retreat.
Design Your Own Corporate Staff Ride
The Corporate Staff Ride is flexible, adaptable, and repeatable. Virtually any organization can structure its own Corporate Staff Ride to 1) focus on a particularly important aspect of the enterprise, 2) invest in leadership development at a specific management level, or 3) explore leadership issues relevant to the entire enterprise. This is accomplished through selection of a battlefield site appropriate to the purpose of the Corporate Staff Ride, the choice and order of the particular stops - including varying the stops on a previously visited battlefield - and the selection of the topics considered in the business case study workshops.
With a reasonable amount of research and internal staff work - and advice from
APPLIED BATTLEFIELD CONCEPTS LLC - most organziations can integrate the Corporate Staff Ride into existing executive management training and development programs.
Principals
The Principals of
APPLIED BATTLEFIELD CONCEPTS, LLC bring a unique set of skills to an "experiential" learning experience aimed at top managers. Award winning historians, they combine decades of real world experience in business and the military.
Registration and Contact
APPLIED BATTLEFIELD CONCEPTS, LLC contact information and current Antietam Corporate Staff Ride schedule and registration information and cancellation policy.
Updated: October 31, 2011
