Seb Lavoie, Part 2: SWAT/ERT Selection, Leadership, and Mindset - Ep. 41
Jun 15, 2023
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Former SWAT/ERT member Seb Lavoie gives training tips for challenging selection courses, discusses mindset and leadership principles, and talks about his work at Raven Strategic. Emphasizes the importance of predictability, mental obstacles, trait selection, and the need for leadership development. Shares insights on the Collective Podcast and provides ways to connect with him on Instagram.
Preparing for challenging selections courses involves focusing on mindset, purpose, and commitment to anchor motivation.
Improving shooting skills requires training in authentic scenarios to enhance adaptability and performance under pressure.
Deep dives
Training Advice for Challenging Selections Courses
Preparing for challenging selections courses involves focusing on mindset, purpose, and commitment. It is crucial to anchor your purpose and understand the meaning of your journey to maintain motivation and dedication. Maximizing your potential for success includes engaging in hard workouts and unpredictability to simulate real challenges. Integrating unexpected tasks, like running 15k at odd hours, can prepare individuals to push beyond their comfort zones and face uncertainty effectively.
Enhancing Skill Development Through Realistic Training Scenarios
Improving skills such as shooting qualifications requires strategic adjustments in training methods. Merely practicing with a shot timer under controlled conditions may not fully prepare individuals for real-world scenarios. To enhance adaptability and performance under pressure, it is essential to replicate authentic situations where individuals face unexpected challenges, like reacting to externally controlled shot timers and assessing performance under heightened stress.
Understanding the Impact of Stress and Adaptability on Performance
Stress responses influence performance outcomes by affecting predictability and control perceptions. High-stress environments alter motor patterns, cognition, and decision-making abilities. By exposing individuals to unpredictable and stressful situations, their ability to excel under pressure can be significantly bolstered. Managing stress in training by simulating high-pressure conditions helps individuals develop resilience and adaptability crucial for success in demanding environments.
Leadership Traits Essential for Operational Success
Success in critical operational roles necessitates specific leadership traits like resilience, adaptability, decisiveness, emotional intelligence, and accountability. Effective leaders exhibit the ability to push through adversity, rebound from failures, make sound judgments, and demonstrate empathy towards team members. Cultivating skills in communication, decision-making, and performance assessment enhances leadership capabilities crucial for guiding teams through challenging circumstances.
This is the second half of a two-part episode with Sebastien Lavoie. Please check out the first episode if you haven't listened already. In that episode, we discussed Seb’s early career, his time on the Emergency Response Team and how that shaped his perspective as he grew into a leadership role as an operator, his work in designing his unit’s combatives program, and his perspective as a member of the selection cadre for the Emergency Response Team.
In this episode, we’ll discuss Seb’s training advice for people going into challenging selection courses and his work at Raven Strategic, where he teaches leadership and mindset principles.
You can learn more about Seb and get in touch with him on his personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slavccmdr/
Timestamps:
00:00:23 Intro
00:01:08 Tips Going Into Teams
00:06:45 Predictability and Control
00:09:48 Mental Obstacles
00:15:21 ERT Trait Selection
00:18:38 Raven Strategic
00:22:49 Getting More Involved
00:28:08 Need For Raven Strategic Consulting
00:35:29 What’s Next
00:37:09 Collective Podcast
00:41:00 Learn More About Lavoie
00:42:58 Outro
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