Familiarization with Get Real, Get Better at the senior level — behaviors, techniques, and examples.

FELIX is held in person only. Class size is typically limited to 24 and usually consists of 10 FO, 10 SES, and 4 CMC. Additional seats are available for command-level process improvement professionals.

To remain the world’s strongest Navy, we must have consistently strong performance. Yet, the gap between our best and our lowest performers is too great. The Navy has teams with great culture and great performance, but we also see examples of teams with poor culture and weak performance. We must reduce variability; identify and correct small problems before they grow into larger, systemic issues; and envision and deploy innovative approaches that accelerate our warfighting advantage.

Get Real, Get Better 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.

Get Real, Get Better is the formula consistently used by our best performers across Navy communities, informed by multiple years of Navy learning in enterprise improvement and deckplate best practices.

This approach empowers our people to find and fix problems and innovate at their level, from the deckplate to senior leaders, instead of burdening them with extra requirements, policies, or bureaucracy. We must simplify, streamline, and align guidance, requirements, activities, and processes so intent, standards, and focus are clear. We must make our systems and processes work for our people, not vice versa, so our people can do their best work.

We are applying Get Real, Get Better in a variety of areas: to the CNO’s Campaign Plan lines of effort to improve strategic outcomes in Foundry, Forge, and Fleet, underpinned by Sailors; to improving safety in maintenance and operations; to solving Fleet priorities such as manning shortfalls and accurate and timely Sailor pay; and to daily work at all Echelons with teams big and small.

Every one of us can improve, and competition demands we strive to do so every day. This course provides an overview of the culture and problem-solving principles, tools, and best practices from proven practitioners on how to implement Get Real, Get Better. It uses a hands-on learning approach with problems brought by participants for which they are an accountable supported or supporting commander to work on during the application exercise portions of the class. An MS Teams channel will include material from the course for use after the week concludes.