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 Picture
yourself in command of a real life, military
tank…maneuvering through 265 acres of rugged
Texas Land. Now picture you and your team
members at a leadership management retreat in a
tank, on a battlefield, and in battlefield
dress! That’s the real life experience board
members, Deborah Lovell, John Dyer, Dan Herod,
Ray Gilliam, Marty Boggan and Chapter assistant,
Skip Lovell, enlisted in on Thursday, July 8th
at Tactical Tanks, LLC.
In 2004,
AITP Dallas
began offering a professional development
program series to prepare its member and guest
attendees for the Battle of Career Retention in
the new age of IT and customer service. While we
may be armed with the right tactical technology
hard skills, many of us know as we search the
battlefield in today’s job market that our
leadership and management skills may be a bit
behind the frontline, and in order to sustain
our existing posts, secure new posts, and/or
receive promotions, we must hone up on our
personal management skills.
Deborah Lovell,
President of AITP Dallas and its Programs Chair,
always in search for fun, exciting “out of the
box” learning workshops, recruited her army for
a day at Tactical Tanks, a unique approach for
leadership training. “When I saw the article,
Mission: company teamwork, written by Cheryl
Hall in the Dallas Morning News back in March, I
was so intrigued, I knew that I had to learn
more about this program and consider it for one
of our upcoming professional development series
programs”, said Deborah. By the end of the day,
the AITP troop unanimously agreed. They had
learned new team skills as well as survived the
Texas heat and land mines field!
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David Estes and Dr.
Deborah Estes run a corporate training camp
outside of Sherman, TX that uses a fleet of
tanks and other military equipment to teach
team-building skills. Tactical Tanks is an
exciting alternative to the same old leadership
classes and team building programs. “You get in
a battle tank and sail out across the Texas
countryside with a set of orders and a mission”,
David Estes, CEO of Tactical Tanks, explained to
the group. An example of some of the exercises
your team must perform include navigating the
tanks through minefields without instruction,
rescuing a downed pilot in enemy war zones, and
convoying in a V formation, all of which takes
team communications within each tank crew and as
a entire platoon (group). What an awesome
concept for leadership training!
Tactical Tanks is the
guest speaker for the AITP Dallas September
program being held at the Hotel Intercontinental
in Dallas. In addition to leadership management
expert Dr. Deborah Estes bringing her workshop
to our attendees, David Estes, Commander of
Tactical Tanks, will be bringing his tank – yes,
a real tank!
Save the date – mark
your calendar now! Register Early!
AITP Dallas guarantees
this event to be your “once-in-a-lifetime”
experience.
For information on how
to register to attend, please contact
aitpdallas@comcast.net
Members $30.00
(entire program including dinner)
Non-Members $45.00
(entire program including dinner)
Student Members $25.00
(entire program including dinner)
Program Only: $35.00
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