Military teams - A demand for resilience.
BACKGROUND
The Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (RNoNA) has an interest in enhancing military teams' knowledge, skills and abilities to deal with complex situations and environments.


OBJECTIVE
The objective is to document the need for resilience in military teams and to expand the understanding of how such behavior can be meaningfully instilled through team training interventions.


METHODS
Norwegian military subject matter experts (SMEs) assessed the performance of military teams participating in complex military training exercises. Eight cadet teams at the RNoNA were assessed during two separate 4-hour simulator training exercises and a 48-hour live training exercise.


RESULTS
Positive Spearman rank correlation coefficients between resilience assessments in the simulator training exercises and the live training exercise were strongest when the simulator scenario emphasized resilience factors inherent in the live exercise, and weakest when the simulator scenario did not facilitate the task demands in the live exercise.


CONCLUSIONS
The study showed that resilience assessed in teams during simulator training exercises predicted their resilient behavior in a subsequent live training exercise and that the proper design of scenario-based simulator training can realistically and effectively represent resilience stressors found in live operations.
The Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, Bergen, Norway.
Frode Voll
FV
Mjelde
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA.
Kip
K
Smith
The Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, Bergen, Norway.
Petter
P
Lunde
The Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, Bergen, Norway.
Roar
R
Espevik
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D009326:Naval Medicine; D009664:Norway; D011340:Problem Solving; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D000066908:Simulation Training; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D035501:Uncertainty; D055815:Young Adult
Team performance assessment; scenario-based simulator training; taskwork; teamwork; transfer of training