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Your guide to leadership, problem-solving, and excellence in the Navy.
Get Real Get Better (GRGB) is a Navy-wide call to action that empowers leaders at all levels to embrace proven leadership and problem-solving practices to drive exceptional performance. By fostering a culture of ownership and innovation, GRGB helps bridge the gap between high-performing teams and those needing improvement, ensuring consistent excellence across the fleet. Discover how this mindset strengthens our warfighting edge and prepares us for competition and combat. Learn more about GRGB on our About Us page!
The Get Real Get Better (GRGB) mindset is about adopting a belief system that values curiosity, continuous learning, and the pursuit of improvement. It challenges us to think and act differently, encouraging leaders to foster trust, identify root causes, and prioritize outcomes over activities. GRGB emphasizes adaptability and analytical rigor, urging teams to ask "why" and "how do we know" while striving to achieve excellence.
Mindset: Cultivating curiosity, adaptability, and a results-driven outlook to empower leaders and teams.
Behaviors: Driving success through measurable, actionable leadership practices that align with mission objectives.
This mindset isn't just about solving today's problems—it's about building the dynamic adaptability needed to excel in future challenges. Learn more about how GRGB transforms performance on the GRGB Overview Page.
The Get Real Get Better (GRGB) mindset is essential for driving excellence and sustaining the Navy's competitive edge in an evolving world. By fostering a culture of curiosity, adaptability, and continuous improvement, GRGB equips leaders and teams to identify and address challenges effectively. It shifts the focus from merely executing activities to achieving meaningful outcomes, ensuring readiness for both current and future demands. GRGB is for the entire Navy workforce—uniformed and civilian alike. By adopting the GRGB mindset, we ensure our Navy is ready to meet current and future challenges with confidence and agility. GRGB matters because it empowers individuals at all levels to innovate, self-correct, and take ownership, building a resilient, high-performing organization capable of thriving in complex, dynamic environments.
The Get Real Get Better (GRGB) team is here to support you in fostering a culture of excellence and adaptability. Whether you’re seeking guidance to tackle challenges, improve team performance, or implement innovative solutions, we’re ready to help. By working together, we can identify opportunities for growth, remove barriers, and empower your team to achieve exceptional results. Don’t hesitate to reach out—let us partner with you to drive success and ensure your team is prepared to excel in any mission. Contact the GRGB team today and take the first step toward unlocking your full potential!
A Culture of Excellence: GRGB bridges the gap between high and low performers, ensuring consistent excellence across teams.
Empowered Leadership: Encourages leaders to find and fix problems at every level, removing barriers and rewarding ingenuity.
Outcome-Driven: Shifts focus from activities to measurable performance and mission readiness.
Mindset: Fostering an inquisitive, adaptive, and outcome-focused approach to leadership.
Behaviors: Anchoring leadership and team performance in measurable, actionable behaviors.
GRGB is for the entire Navy workforce—uniformed and civilian alike. By adopting the GRGB mindset, we ensure our Navy is ready to meet current and future challenges with confidence and agility.
Have questions or need additional support? Contact us to learn how GRGB can help you and your team achieve excellence.
Fostering an inquisitive, adaptive, and outcome-focused approach to leadership.
Anchoring leadership and team performance in measurable, actionable behaviors.
Tools, discussions, and materials to empower teams and enhance readiness.
Get Real Get Better in Action in Your Communities.
General Education The Problem-Solving Office (PSO) will provide introductory Education outlining both the vision of problem-solving related to the mission of GRGB and an overview of how to use key tools/methodologies to solve simple to complex challenges up and down the chain of command.
Specific Tool Education The PSO will provide Education tailored to specific tools/methodologies critical to the problem-solving journey.
Leadership Education This Education is designed to be a discussion, where one reads about a page of information, then re-reads the specific GRGB Leadership Behavior Card, then engages in conversation based on a handful of questions. No PowerPoint required!
What has the Navy done to train-to GRGB Leadership Behaviors? Rolled out GRGB Behaviors to Ech-V Triads and above using the GRGB Toolkit.
What is the Navy doing to reinforce GRGB Education? Conducting problem-solving Education and leadership Education, alternating months.
How will the Navy maintain momentum in 2024? Continue problem-solving and leadership Education with new and reinforced topics according to the voice of the customer.
How can I access previous Education topic documents from previous calendar years? To access past Education topic documents from previous calendar years, you have two options:
Get Real Get Better, or GRGB, is a call to action for every Navy leader to apply a set of Navy-proven leadership and problem-solving best practices that empower our people to achieve exceptional performance.
The Navy has teams with great culture and great performance, but we also see examples of teams with poor culture and weak performance. The gap between our best and our worst performers is too large.
To remain the world’s strongest Navy, we must have consistently strong performance. Get Real, Get Better is the mindset consistently used by our best performers.
This approach empowers our people to find and fix problems – and innovate – at their level, from the deckplate to senior leaders. We reward ownership and ingenuity, and we help each other remove barriers.
We are committed to accelerating our warfighting advantage by unleashing our people, not by burdening them with extra requirements, policies, or bureaucracy.
Principles here and in the Charge of Command make our Navy more ready for competition and combat.
We begin with our time-honored and proven Navy Core Values (honor, courage, commitment), and apply the Get Real Get Better mindset (self-assessing, self-correcting, always learning), to achieve the Get Real Get Better behaviors (act transparently, focus on what matters most, build learning teams).
We are pursuing Get Real Get Better because, although we are a world class Navy, not all performance is world class. We have too much variability in performance, notable in shipyard delays, force development failures, operational and safety incidents, and pay and personnel issues. Meanwhile, our pacing challenge is getting bigger and better. Our status quo is not a winning position over time.
The Navy’s best-performing teams demonstrate strong culture and exceptional results. However, not all teams achieve this level of excellence. GRGB bridges the gap, fostering:
Consistency: Establishing high-performance standards across the fleet. Empowerment: Encouraging teams to find, fix, and solve problems at their level. Innovation: Rewarding creativity and removing barriers to progress.
This approach aligns with the Navy’s mission to maintain the world’s strongest maritime force.
Get Real Get Better is not just theory. We are adopting measurable standards for these leadership and problem-solving behaviors. The standards are: 1. Align on standards and goals 2. Find and embrace the “red” 3. Use Navy problem-solving methods to get at root cause 4. Fix or elevate barriers 5. Encourage learning through trust and respect 6. Specify ownership
For further information regarding the standards above please click here.
Get Real Get Better In Action in Your Communities.
Mindset Fostering an inquisitive, adaptive, and outcome-focused approach to leadership.
Behaviors Anchoring leadership and team performance in measurable, actionable behaviors. Explore GRGB Behaviors →
Educational Resources Tools, discussions, and materials to empower teams and enhance readiness. Access GRGB Resources →
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"In our ongoing effort to strengthen warfighters, improve warfighting, and ready the platforms that support them, our way ahead is clear and our course is true. We will continue our Navy-wide culture renovation, where Get Real Get Better is the standard of leadership and problem-solving that leaders at all levels embrace and live."
— Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations
Consistency: Establishing high-performance standards across the fleet.
Empowerment: Encouraging teams to find, fix, and solve problems at their level.
Innovation: Rewarding creativity and removing barriers to progress.
By practicing GRGB, teams at every level embrace:
The Navy's rich history and traditions form the foundation of our excellence. GRGB builds on this legacy by honoring past achievements while driving innovation and adaptability for the future.
Get Real Get Better (GRGB) is the Navy’s call to action for leadership, problem-solving, and continuous improvement.
Get Real Get Better (GRGB) is the Navy’s commitment to leadership and problem-solving excellence. It is a call to action for every leader and team member to adopt a proven set of practices that empower people to achieve exceptional performance. GRGB embodies the Navy’s drive to strengthen warfighters, improve warfighting, and ensure mission readiness.
What is a mindset?
A mindset is a set of beliefs and attitudes that shape how we react to the world around us and situations and conditions that we encounter. Importantly, mindsets can be changed. By adopting new ways of thinking, new beliefs, and new behaviors to cement those beliefs, we can adapt into new mindsets. That’s the call to action of GRGB when the CNO directs us to “think and act differently”
How is GRGB a mindset?
GRGB is a set of beliefs that orient the way we handle situations—a belief that values inquisitiveness, an inquisitiveness that honestly identifies performance shortfalls (self-assess) and seeks the root cause of problems and obstacles (self-correct); a belief in the value of learning (always learning). The GRGB mindset includes the belief that a leader’s job is to create an atmosphere of trust to enable a team’s inquisitiveness and discovery. These beliefs shape the handling of situations: leaders help solve problems elevated to them, not punish subordinates for identifying barriers; when faced with a mission or a challenge, the GRGB mindset orients against status quo, orients attention towards the outcomes desired and the performance necessary to achieve those outcomes.
GRGB is about adopting an inquisitive orientation to our jobs and our team performance. It’s about looking for opportunities to learn and improve. It’s about thinking first about the outcomes we want to achieve, and being accountable (to our superior, to ourselves, to our teams) for measuring our pursuit of those outcomes, not merely executing activities. GRGB is a belief that performance and activity are not ends themselves, but rather means to achieve outcomes. GRGB is about valuing specificity and analytical rigor, about asking “why?” and “how do we know?” GRGB is about developing the ability to adapt, to learn, to problem solve rapidly and effectively, because that ability makes us better warfighters. In the future fight, we won’t have a size/mass advantage; we won’t have a technology advantage. We need a dynamic adaptability advantage. We need to know our standards and our systems and our operations exceptionally well, and then be able to adapt to disruptions of them. We’ll practice in peacetime on readiness, routine operations, so that our skills are sharp for combat.
GRGB emphasizes a mindset that drives continuous improvement through:
Core Values Built on the Navy’s foundational values of honor, courage, and commitment.
Outcome-Oriented Leadership Shifting focus from mere activities to achieving measurable outcomes.
Dynamic Adaptability Preparing teams to adapt rapidly in both peacetime and combat, ensuring readiness for the challenges of tomorrow.
Commitment to Excellence GRGB is a journey with no finish line—continuous improvement is the standard.
Learn More About GRGB Behaviors →
Admiral Lisa Franchetti on GRGB: “In our ongoing effort to strengthen warfighters, improve warfighting, and ready the platforms that support them, our way ahead is clear and our course is true...”
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