Mission Ready AcademyMission-Ready Planning (Government and Defense Edition)
- Edition
- Government and Defense
- Skills
- 12
- Length
- 10 h
- Plan tier
- Professional
About this course
Mission-Ready Planning for military and government staffs: a twelve-skill method for planning under time pressure, from the planning clock to the risk register.
Plans fail in predictable ways: the clock is spent at the top and starved at the bottom, the why lives in one head, the directive's unwritten tasks surface at the worst moment, one favorite option is dressed up with two decoys, and risk is absorbed silently by whoever stands closest to it. Twelve skills under five pillars (Shared Understanding, Disciplined Analysis, Option Discipline, Risk Ownership, and Decisive Communication) each produce an artifact built on your real work. Every artifact has the same test: could someone act on this without you in the room?
Task Force Kestrel, a battalion-sized force holding a sector along the Merlo River, has two days before the opposing force is expected to attempt a crossing.
What you will be able to do
- Establish the time plan, intent statement, and team roles for a real planning effort.
- Analyze a real directive and its operating arena to produce the task, constraint, information, and effects picture a plan must be built on.
- Develop, pressure-test, and compare distinct options against pre-set criteria, and brief a recommendation.
- Convert a decision into a five-part order, confirm shared understanding through brief-backs and rehearsal, and establish an owned risk register.
Who it is for
Military and government staffs that plan under time pressure, working a real operation.
This edition's scenarios, examples, and vocabulary are set in a government and defense organization. The objectives and standards are the same in every edition.