Afterburner Services and Solutions for Every NeedAbout Afterburner

On-Site Consulting — Afterburner approaches all its services through our proprietary, holistic, organizational model we call Flawless Execution℠. Explore the Model for more details. Our highly trained and experienced consulting staff is ready to assist you in implementing Flawless Execution℠ at your organization or on your team. We provide leadership coaching from senior military officers and successful business executives on-site according to your needs. Also, our diverse staff represents a wide base of expertise in Lean, Six Sigma, ISO 9001, organizational development, training and education, risk mitigation and safety, patient safety (healthcare), entrepreneurship, and more. We will work with you to tailor our services to your needs.

Planning Services and Solutions - All Afterburner workshops involve diverse, collaborative planning and facilitation techniques to improve the thoroughness of the planning process, build consensus, defeat group think, spur innovation and maintain your competitive advantage.

  • Strategic Planning (OrgEx) — Define your organization’s vision of the future, but in a clear, compelling, high-resolution manner including 12 key descriptions we call a Future Picture. We will then guide you through systems mapping and network analysis to identify powerful leverage or focus points that will become the strategic plan necessary to achieve your Future Picture.
  • Project / Operational Planning — Whether you have developed a strategy through our facilitated workshop or you just have a major project that requires a collaborative effort to develop a detailed and innovative plan, we can help. Learn to use the “Six Steps to Mission Planning” on a real corporate mission, not a simulation. Our planning workshop will let your team see immediate results and have a repeatable process they can use to improve future project planning and execution.
  • Red Teaming — Improve the quality and effectiveness of your plans through ‘Red Teaming.’ Learn how to incorporate Red Teams into your planning processes.

Business Execution Services and Solutions

  • Execution Rhythm Facilitation — Execution is a challenge for most organizations. Our consultants will coach you and your teams on how to close the execution gap through the proper use and facilitation of ‘Gap Meetings.’ Gap Meetings are short, focused, regularly scheduled meetings that improve project management and execution-related organizational accountability, a critical asset to high performing organizations. These meetings, used along with the Flawless Execution process model, will drive individual accountability around your business initiatives.
  • Standards Development — The foundation of executing as a team lies in well-written and well-communicated standards. Standards provide a common set of principles and expectations that keep the organization on-track and provide guidance when a plan breaks down. They are the ultimate contingency plan. Afterburner will work closely with your organization to develop these written standards.

Debriefing Services and Solutions

  • Debriefing Facilitation — Learning from our mistakes as well as your successes is essential in the current fast-paced, demanding and often threatening environment. Organizations that fail to learn will ultimately fail. Let us help you debrief a recent project or plan in order to perform root cause analysis, develop Lessons Learned and begin to develop a culture of learning in your organization.
  • Debriefing Workshop — Afterburner teaches the fundamentals of our proprietary Stealth Debriefing Process℠. Your team will learn to utilize the fundamentals of this powerful business practice.

Group-Live Classroom Training (Flawless Execution℠ University)

  • Leading Flawless Execution℠ — Take a deeper dive into the Flawless Execution℠ model through this 3-day, train-the-trainer style course. You will learn and practice a six-step planning and collaboration process that high performing military and business organizations use to execute flawlessly every day, discovering Afterburner’s proprietary planning, briefing, executing, and debriefing process in-depth. When you return to the office, however, it won’t be business as usual. You will be leading better, encouraging breakthrough innovations, solving complex problems, and ultimately - Closing Your Execution Gap. Our curriculum is delivered in our state-of-the-art facilities at the Afterburner Headquarters in Atlanta or on-site at your organization.

Customized Training Solutions

Afterburner has worked with many companies and educational institutions to build custom curricula around the Flawless Execution℠ model. For example, we have delivered training as a part of Cisco Systems’ Sales Mastery Series, the Metal Treatment Institutes’ Young Executive Series, and Duke University Fuqua School of Business’ Advanced Management Program.

Software Solutions

  • FX Enterprise Software — FX is a Web-based strategic and operational planning software tool that is designed to support Flawless Execution℠ processes in any organization. It is also designed to capture and share knowledge from the daily execution from all the teams within your organization in an easily accessible and searchable database. Most importantly however, it provides a quick, accurate, at-a-glace depiction of how well you are executing at every level of your organization, and communicates that information throughout — in real-time!

Security and Confidentiality: Afterburner employs many consultants and staff with current security clearances at the Top Secret Level. If you are a government entity or contractor for a government organization that requires security clearances or you are a private organization that is concerned with confidentiality, rest assured, Afterburner is a trusted resource. Contact us for more information on our services and solutions.