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Royal Norwegian Naval Academy Officer
trainingQuantico July 14th, 2007
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Our vision (Schwerpunkt) to educate, train and
inspire the cadets to be agile officers strong
in character
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5 bachelor programs

• Executive, logistics, engineering, weapon
  technician costal ranger branches
• 1st year
• all branches are together,
• focus on common military subjects
• devided in squads of their own choosing
• 2nd 3rd years
• focus on branch specific subjects
• divided into classes depending on branch

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Exercises
1st year
Semester I
Semester II
Winter exercise
1 week
Exercise BW
2 weeks
3 days
Exercise Field
Exercise Magellan
10 weeks
Exercise Telemakos
2 weeks
2nd year
Semester III
Semester IV
Exercise Top Sail
1 week
CRM
5 days
3rd year
Semester V
Semester VI
1 week
Exercise Int Ops
1 week
Exercise MAR OPS
18 weeks total
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Our role model

• To shape and adapt to change one cannot be
  passive, instead one must take the initiative.
  (Boyd)
• Officers need to
• Be open to new experiences (new information)
• Be able to build trust, be trustworthy and trust
  others
• Be able to communicate and build relations
  (extrovert)
• Be emphatic
• Have Verantwortungsfreude
• Be able to implement decisions (audacity)

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Pedagogical model Experience-based learning
Coaching after completed mission
(3)
(4)
Hot Seat after exercise endex
Cases
(2)
(1)
(5)
Leadership theory
360 degree evaluation
New action plan for individual development
Generalization and reflection
(6)
Coaching and / or written evaluation from coach
Home exam / reflection paper
(9)
(7)
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our three circles
Exercises
Coaching
Theory
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Some norms for an organizational climate at the
academy

• Develop trust between cadets and staff
• Appreciate initiative
• Room for making mistakes
• Criticism must be constructive
• Provide a challenging arena where the cadets can
  make new experiences both as leaders and team
  members
• Free play
• Realistic
• This implies that the staff must
• have a common outlook
• have courage to try new things and fail

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1st Year team building agility
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Exercises 1st year
Semester I
Semester II
Winter exercise
1 week
Exercise BW
2 week
3 days
Exercise Field
Exercise Magellan
10 weeks
Exercise Telemakos
2 weeks
Team building - Inward focus
Agility - Outward focus
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Pedagogical model 1st semester team building,
inward focus

• Exercise Bjørn West
• Meet coaches
• Choose teammates
• Do I want to be an officer?
• A little test of motivation

Action plan for individual development
Leadership theory
360 degree evaluation
Coaching and / or written evaluation from coach
Exam
Exercise Magellan
Hotseat
360 degree evaluation
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Magellan
10 weeks on board a 100 year old sailing
vessel Why ?
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Pedagogical model 2nd semester agility, outward
focus
Group exam

• Winter exercise
• Coaching
• Exam

• Exercise Telemakos
• An excam exercise
• Approx 14 days
• Sleep food deprivation

Boydian / Richardsian theory
Coaching
Exercise Ivory Coast
Generalization
Coaching and / or written evaluation from coach
Hot seat
Individual exam
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Leadership development 2nd 3rd years

• 3rd semester
• Me, myself and the others
• New (branch) class
• 4th semester
• Operational pedagogy
• Crew building
• 5th semester
• Crisis management
• Exercise IntOps
• 6th semester
• Preparing for a new (real) unit
• Exercise MarOps

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Some research

• Masters
• Establishing a link between transformational
  leadership and mission order leadership
  philosophy
• PhD
• Moral reasoning and transformational leadership
• Communication in new and mature squads
• Cadets mindset for 4GW