Leading teams under pressure
By Karen Ainley (February 2008 Issue)
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Paul Bassett knows what it is like to lead a team under pressure. While in the Army, he headed up a bomb disposal team in Bosnia, leading his men through hazardous terrain, carefully checking for mines planted during the conflict there in the early 1990s.
But in 1994, a tragic accident happened that was to change his life and that of his team forever. His second-in-command was killed when a mine exploded during a clearance operation in Stari Vitez.
Overnight, the team went from being a high-performing unit, coping successfully with the demands of a hugely stressful job protecting the lives of fellow soldiers, to one that was left traumatised and grieving, struggling to function.
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