# Steady Command (Government and Defense Edition) > Steady Command, Government and Defense edition. 12 hours of self-paced learning. $897 for 365 days of access. Offered by Mission Ready Academy, Mission Success Solutions, LLC. URL: https://academy.missionsuccesssolutions.com/courses/steady-command-gov_defense Audience edition: Government and Defense. Plan tier: All-Access. Length: 12 hours. Passing score: 80%. Price: $897 for 365 days. Description: Steady Command for government and defense leaders: stay in command of yourself, read the room, say the hard thing well, and build a team that tells you the truth. Seventeen skills under five Command Pillars: Self-Read, Self-Steer, Room-Read, Straight Talk, and Bond-Build. They are taught in four problem-first modules: when you run hot, when you miss the signals, when the hard conversation gets avoided or botched, and when trust is thin. Every skill comes with a job aid and is practiced on your own live work. This is training in observable leader behavior. It is not therapy, and it is not a personality assessment. Each module opens with a chapter of the running case. Caprock Field Support Activity is a 240-person Department of Defense field activity in West Texas running vehicle maintenance and facilities support for a garrison command. A new Deputy Director for Operations is ten months in, the leads are not working together, and the comptroller's office is wary. Four chapters, one per module, follow what happens next. Target audience: Leaders who already handle hard moments and want to handle them better. Mid-level managers complete all seventeen skills; front-line supervisors, executives, and veteran-transition leaders start with a shorter path and add skills as the situations arrive. 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. Outcomes -- what a learner will be able to do: - Stay in command of your own emotional state under operating pressure by detecting it early, planning for recurring triggers, buying decision time in the room, re-reading the situation accurately, and repairing quickly after a visible loss of composure. - Read the people in the room and on the team accurately, by tracking each person's baseline, checking words against voice, body, and context, drafting the other party's perspective, and confirming every read through a Read-Back before acting on it. - Decide on evidence whether a hard conversation must happen, structure and deliver it, manage rising heat without abandoning the message, and sequence the conversations needed to move a decision the leader does not control. - Rebuild thin trust on a team by diagnosing and repairing the weak strand with one person, installing the three Voice Protocol habits, running a Repair Sequence that holds, and measuring team climate on data rather than impression. Prerequisites: - None. Modules (4): ## Module 1. When You Run Hot (M1) Terminal Learning Objective. Action: Stay in command of your own emotional state under operating pressure by detecting it early, planning for recurring triggers, buying decision time in the room, re-reading the situation accurately, and repairing quickly after a visible loss of composure. Condition: Given facilitated instruction, the Steady Command Participant Guide, the Caprock Field Support Activity case study, and self-selected real-world situations, with the Signal Scan Card, Trigger Map Worksheet, HOLD Card, Second Read Card, and Recovery Statement template available, Standard: Produce a completed Signal Scan Card with a precise name, a Heat rating, and a time-stamped source; a Trigger Map with ten logged moments, two families, two visible Tells, one dated countermove, and a named trusted person; a partner-rated HOLD drill in which the Decide move matches the decision rule for the rated heat; a Second Read Card whose Second Read passes the truth test and names a behavior and a verification date; a six-line Recovery Statement with no "but" or "if" delivered in under one minute; a completed case-study application for Chapter 1; a score of 7 or higher on the ten-item knowledge check; and a written application commitment with what, with whom, by when, and how I will know. Module length: 3 hours. Lessons: - L-1 When You Run Hot (interactive, 180 minutes, required) ## Module 2. When You Miss the Signals (M2) Terminal Learning Objective. Action: Read the people in the room and on the team accurately, by tracking each person's baseline, checking words against voice, body, and context, drafting the other party's perspective, and confirming every read through a Read-Back before acting on it. Condition: Given facilitated instruction, the Steady Command Participant Guide, the Caprock Field Support Activity case study, and self-selected real-world situations, including a person the participant leads, an exchange from the last two weeks, and a decision requiring another party's agreement in the next two weeks. Standard: The participant produces a Baseline Read Roster with three complete five-channel rows and one rated deviation with a Read-Back time for any Drift or Shift; a Channel Check Grid on the Chapter 2 transcript with all four channels, an explicit mismatch call, a hypothesis beginning "My hypothesis is," and a dated test; a Perspective Draft that passes a partner's signature test with three distinct interests and a specific fear; and a six-line Read-Back delivered in a pair drill with a five-second silence held and no solution offered before the correction, as verified by the partner. Knowledge Check M2 scored at 8 of 10 or higher on self-assessment. Module length: 3 hours. Lessons: - L-2 When You Miss the Signals (interactive, 180 minutes, required) ## Module 3. When the Hard Conversation Gets Avoided or Botched (M3) Terminal Learning Objective. Action: Decide on evidence whether a hard conversation must happen, structure and deliver it, manage rising heat without abandoning the message, and sequence the conversations needed to move a decision the leader does not control. Condition: Given facilitated instruction, the Steady Command Participant Guide, the Caprock Field Support Activity case study, and self-selected real-world situations, including a postponed conversation and a stalled decision from the participant's own next two weeks, Standard: The participant produces a completed Silence Ledger with all four cost lines in operating terms, a one-sentence Ask, and a calendar date; a BRIEF Planner in which the Bottom Line is one sentence delivered within twenty seconds and the Expectation can be repeated back by a partner; a Temperature Call performance in which the level is called at least three times, pace drops at 3, the heat is named without blame at 4, and the return opens with B and E; and a Stake Map with at least four parties, concerns in the parties' own words, a named unlock, and a dated sequence with the decision-maker last — all checked in class against the rubrics in the Participant Guide. Module length: 3 hours. Lessons: - L-3 When the Hard Conversation Gets Avoided or Botched (interactive, 180 minutes, required) ## Module 4. When Trust Is Thin (M4) Terminal Learning Objective. Action: Rebuild thin trust on a team by diagnosing and repairing the weak strand with one person, installing the three Voice Protocol habits, running a Repair Sequence that holds, and measuring team climate on data rather than impression. Condition: Given facilitated instruction, the Steady Command Participant Guide, the Caprock Field Support Activity case study, and self-selected real-world situations, including one thin-trust relationship, one recurring team meeting, one damaged working relationship, and the participant's own team as the pulse population, Standard: Participant produces a Three-Strand Trust Diagnostic with evidence-backed ratings from the other person's view, a targeted strand, a repeatable 30-day behavior, and a dated day-30 ask; a Voice Log with a real ask, a two-sentence admit, three clean Answer-drill responses, and a dated first week; a Repair Sequence Planner with a specific acknowledgment, a one-sentence acceptance containing no explanation, a cost-matched repair, a visible commitment, and a calendared two-week check; a Climate Pulse setup with a dated prediction and a discussion opener that neither defends nor narrows; a completed case-study mediation and action plan; a score of at least 7 of 10 on Knowledge Check M4; and a written application commitment placed on the 30-Day Sustainment Plan. Module length: 3 hours. Lessons: - L-4 When Trust Is Thin (interactive, 180 minutes, required) ## Enrollment Buy this course alone for $897, or take it under any subscription plan that includes the All-Access tier. Organizations buy seat licenses on purchase order. - [This course](https://academy.missionsuccesssolutions.com/courses/steady-command-gov_defense) - [The program, all editions](https://academy.missionsuccesssolutions.com/programs/steady-command) ## Provider Mission Ready Academy is the training platform of Mission Success Solutions, LLC, an SBA VetCert-certified SDVOSB management consulting firm in San Angelo, TX. UEI SS9DJDSLXML7. CAGE 19ZV8. Every program is original work by the firm. A Certificate of Completion with a serial number and a public verification page, issued when every required lesson is complete. It states the hours of structured learner time completed. 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