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CommandReady delivers powerful Military Leadership principles
to organizations who need to shake up status quo thinking.
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biography

Col. Garth Massey

If you’ve ever met Garth Massey, you know it’s an understatement to say he’s passionate about Leadership Development. It’s a walk he’s walked in his civilian and military career.

Garth has served several combat assignments with the United States Marine Corps where he learned that leaders do, in fact, eat last. He currently serves as a Colonel in the Marine Reserves at the Regimental command level, leading nearly 5,000 Marines and sailors.

15 years ago he founded CommandReady, a leadership development company known for transforming the “me mindset” to a service based, value-driven leadership mindset.

In addition to extensive real life leadership experience, Garth has earned his MBA and a MSS. (Master of Strategic Studies) He is a student of both the business application and real life examples of leadership done right.

Every aspect of our lives is effected by our ability to lead, our teams and ourselves, the intentional study of how we lead results in better outcomes and greater satisfaction in life.

Shape the Environment
(Not the person)

  • Getting activity w/o doing the work 
  • Learning where to focus your efforts
  • Leaders role
  • Improving the measure of effectiveness
  • Focus on the system, not the individual 
  • Giving them context to use new habits

Getting to Action

  • Managing through order and chaos, and return to order again
  • Take initiative
  • Building an innovative culture
  • Understand the difference between talking and doing

Prudence

  • Continuous learning is the foundation of success 
  • Everything is individualistic
  • Learn to shape your own quest for knowledge
  • What you need to know for the next level
  • Everything has been fed to you – there are no syllabus’ for life
  • Humility to learn 
  • You’re always one bullet away from being the person in charge

Virtue of Courage

  • The courage it takes to lead
  • Courage it takes to do the right thing
  • People will do what is safe (what they are pressured to do) and profitable vs what is right

Making Decisions

  • Make fast decisions without outpacing the team so they think you are crazy
  • Communication and where it fits
  • Outpacing the enemy

EMPCOA

  • Learn to flip the map and see objections from the enemy’s perspective
  • Who is the enemy, hint it is everyone
  • Learning to flip the map
  • Building humility out on the team so you can prepare for meeting without ignoring your clients

Lenses of Leadership

  • Learning to switch perspectives when working with your team
  • Connecting strategy to tactics
  • Avoiding the trap of solving today’s problems with yesterday’s solutions
  • Speak the right language at the right level

Workshop 1:

New and high potential leaders
Four-part series
Four half day sessions

Key Concept:
Understanding the planning process and how senior leaders can shape the environment in their business to drive operational goals

Workshop 2:

Senior Leaders/Board of Directors
Half day session

Key Concept:
Setting up an environment to build continuous learners and drive independent action rather than being consumed by their business

Workshop 3:

For leaders around age 50
Long-term strategy

Key Concept:
Strategic discussion about what your focus is the 10,000 days you have left at the age of 50. How do you overcome the iron majors that stop action? What are you willing to focus on and how does it drive business and growing leaders?