The explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster rocked the world and the 7 astronaut fatalities led to senate inquiries that gave technical reasons for the tragedy. Several failed missions, and more fatalities, forced NASA’s eventual realisation that those disasters were a result of leadership failure and social context, and not technical incompetence, or equipment failure.

With this program, you learn how NASA became the Best Place to Work in federal government for the 11th year in a row. You will become a better leader with the 4-Dimensional Leadership program that has been voluntarily completed by over 1,500 NASA leaders and teams. Architected by Charlie Pellerin, the former Director of Astrophysics at NASA, the 4-Dimensional Leadership Course is critically different in that it equips leaders to create the social conditions for high performance. Updated with contemporary neuroscientific studies and simulations from the current space program, this leadership framework is peerless.

You will address the invisible settings that make up the social contract of high-performing teams and bypass the usual forming, storming, norming and performing dramas (Tuckman, 1965) that teams endure to become high-functioning.  NASA found that eight practical behaviours enabled leaders to shift social context, build trust, and establish a compelling sense of shared purpose.

The NASA system introduces eight neurogenetic* behaviours to establish trust and psychological safety as a foundation for high performance. What makes these behaviours different to others (such as those developed from psychometric factors, or organisational values) is that they are neurogenetic and therefore universally relevant in all leadership settings.

*Deeply wired into the human brain, with a demonstrable effect on human social behaviour.

HIGH PERFORMANCE: Create psychologically safe and high-performing teams.

SHIFT SOCIAL CONTEXT: Become fluent in the invisible levers that change social context.

BE INSPIRED: How NASA became the Best Place to Work in Federal Government 11 years in a row.

END DRAMA: Create high-performing teams without the ‘forming’, ‘storming’, ‘norming’ and ‘performing’.

IMMEDIATE APPLICATION: Apply these behaviours to your organisation for immediate impact.

DIGITAL ACCREDITATION: Become certified in NASA 4-Dimensional Leadership.

For certification purposes, participants use the NASA Context Shifting Worksheet to address a selected team or organisational group from dysfunction to high-performance. The act of completing this brings together all 8 of the NASA 4-D behaviours to demonstrate understanding and effect positive change.

The NASA 4-D program can also be run in-house for your organisation, delivering it face to face or in a blended format, according to your operational cadence.

NASA 4-D Benchmarking
Crazy Might Work offer the opportunity to benchmark your team/s against over 1,500+ NASA teams.

We look forward to see you in 2024!

Warm Regards

Paul Hawkins and the Crazy Might Work Team