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    The instrument that knows mission-anchoring isn't the same as workaholism.

    PMP-Frontline includes one defence-specific dimension you won't find on any generic personality test: Mission-Anchored versus Wholeness-Anchored. It surfaces the most coachable conversation in defence, the gap between who you are inside the service and who you are outside it. Particularly useful mid-career and pre-transition.

    What is a VMP?

    Built for the realities of service.

    Most leadership profiles available to defence personnel come from corporate consultancies. They miss the structural realities of military life, long deployments, command hierarchies, mission ethics, identity fusion with the service, and the cliff-edge of medical or age-out discharge.

    Army officers & senior NCOs

    From troop level to command. The Moral Courage dimension is calibrated for the specific decisions Army officers make under doctrine pressure and chain-of-command tensions.

    Navy officers & senior NCOs

    The long-deployment psychology dimension matters most here. The Mission-Anchored vs Wholeness-Anchored data is consistently the most useful coaching read for Navy operators mid-career.

    Air Force officers & senior NCOs

    Aircrew, ATC, engineering officers, command roles. The instrument addresses the specific technical-operational vs leader-of-others tension that runs through Air Force career progression.

    In transition, within 18 months of leaving

    The single most useful time to take this. The actual-vs-ideal gap data gives you a structured starting point for the harder questions of identity reconstruction after service.

    What it measures that other tools don't.

    Beyond the nine universal dimensions and three frontline-specific dimensions, the defence module surfaces one construct that consistently produces the most useful coaching content:

    Mission-Anchored ↔ Wholeness-Anchored

    Where does your identity actually anchor? Is the service the central thing that defines you, with everything else organised around it? Or is the service one important part of who you are, with the rest of your life sitting on equal footing?

    Neither pole is wrong. But the GAP between how you actually operate and how you'd ideally operate on this dimension is the most reliable predictor of post-service psychological adjustment.

    Evidence base: Identity Centrality (Stryker), Workaholism research (Schaufeli), post-deployment reintegration literature (Burnell & Coleman, 2010).

    Pricing.

    Both options are genuinely confidential. Your unit is not contacted. The report is yours.

    PMP-Frontline

    A$149
    One-off · 30 to 35 min
    • 62-item online assessment
    • Self-Discrepancy layer with the Mission-Anchored ↔ Wholeness item
    • Conversation Map output, delivered as PDF and in your portal
    • Five layers of fake-resistance built in

    PMP-Frontline + Debrief

    A$295
    One-off · 30 to 35 min + 45-min Teams
    • Everything in PMP-Frontline
    • 45-min Teams debrief with Rob
    • Follow-up email summarising themes
    • Bridge into 1:1 coaching if useful

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