Chris Brennan is a training, leadership, and human performance specialist who focuses on developing teams, leaders, and instructor cadres operating in mission-critical environments.
Through his consultancy, Omada Performance Concepts, he offers a perspective formed through experience, contemporary research, and human performance methodology. Omada’s proprietary frameworks and services are currently integrated within multiple mission-critical teams and organizations.
Chris served as a Patrol Commander and Trainer in the Australian Special Air Service Regiment across multiple deployed and training environments. His Master of Business and current postgraduate studies in Human Performance Optimization add academic rigour to those experiences, ensuring current best practice in adult learning and performance science.
Through Omada, Chris delivers emerging leader and instructor development programs across specialist policing, emergency services, the resources sector, military, and high-risk industry.
This is our second conversation with Chris discussing leadership concepts. If you’d like to listen to the first one, it’s episode number 113. Today, we’re talking to Chris about two important concepts: dynamic decision-making and how to structure debriefs effectively, efficiently, and consistently.
More about Chris:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-brennan-omada/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omada.performance.concepts/
Omada's Dynamic Decision-Making Framework:
Question 1 – What information do I need? (Where do I find it?)
Aim: Situational Awareness through Information Collection and Triage
Orientates the leader and team to the information conditions and helps them understand the information that’s currently available, what information is needed, where there may be gaps in the information and where that can be sourced
Question 2 – What needs to happen with this information? (Who needs to know?)
Aim: Action and Communication
Turns actionable information into assigned tasks and establishes reporting priorities so that the team is aligned and moving with shared understanding of the situation. Reinforces information priority to those that need it the most, ie those in the team.
Question 3 – What is the plan and the expected outcome? (When will I reassess?)
Aim: Task Execution and Reassessment
Prompts execution of the plan, with the addition of a reassessment trigger. Every plan should include a defined point at which the leader asks whether the situation has changed and whether the plan needs to change with it.
Omada's IWIPE-A Debrief Framework:
I - Incident Summary
W - What went well?
I - Improves
P - Plan going forward
E - Equipment
A - Accountability
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