THE PATH
CREATE YOUR PATH
The path to becoming a great leader looks different for everyone. We each have our own strengths and weaknesses. Some need to take a left turn, others need to turn right.
Begin with our free courses, then continue down the line to find your own Path as you advance your leadership skills.
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Leadership requires honest, realistic self-assessment.
Do YOU have the knowledge and skills to lead effectively?
Find out where you stand.
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Extreme Ownership allows you to take control of any situation and solve any problem, but how do you put it into practice?
It starts with just 5 simple steps.
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Do you find yourself saying “yeah, but…” or “what if…” when it comes to taking Extreme Ownership?
Overcome the common barriers to taking Extreme Ownership.
THE FOUNDATIONS
These courses provide the foundation for everything we teach at Echelon Front in-depth. For optimal success on the Extreme Ownership Academy, you need to thoroughly understand the basics.
PREMIUM COURSE
All problems are leadership problems. Extreme Ownership is the solution.
This course teaches you the foundational skills you need to LEAD and WIN in business and in life.
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It’s easy to take things too far when using Extreme Ownership.
This advanced course teaches you to refine your leadership skills to achieve balance in all situations.
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
Communication is everything. Knowing how to communicate well can strengthen relationships, increase buy-in, and get you to your goal faster.
The courses below give you practical tactics to improve your communication skills.
PREMIUM COURSE
Being direct with people seems like the quickest way to communicate, but it triggers egos, damages relationships, and stalls progress.
Taking the Indirect Approach is faster and more effective.
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Do you have to repeat yourself often or walk away from a conversation without a clear understanding of what was said?
Doing a readback can help you create alignment and avoid mistakes.
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Making the same mistakes over and over again is unproductive and a drain on resources.
Debriefs can help you learn from successes and failures for constant improvement.
WINNING STRATEGIES
Tactics will only get you so far. You need solid strategies to achieve victory. Poor relationships, inability to make good decisions, and a lack of discipline can all prevent you from being the leader your team needs you to be.
Which area is the biggest leadership challenge for you right now?
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Do you struggle to get support from the people you interact with?
Whether it’s your spouse, boss, vendor, or client, you need to have good relationships with those around you to get things accomplished.
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Decision-making plays a big role in being a leader. But having to make decisions without all the information can cause us to freeze.
The OODA Loop is a decision-making tool used by aerial combat pilots that you can employ in any situation.
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Reaching goals, overcoming obstacles, and becoming the best you possibly can will not happen by itself.
This course shows you how to overcome the common excuses and obstacles that hold you back.
EXTREME OWNERSHIP IN YOUR WORLD
It’s time to bring the general concepts of Extreme Ownership into your world. These courses will help you understand the nuances of using Extreme Ownership in your role and industry, whether you’re a middle manager or working in sales or a high-risk industry.
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Avoid complacency and take ownership of the safety of your team with the principles of Extreme Ownership.
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Apply Extreme Ownership to your unique role as a Middle Manager and gain significant influence over your organization’s culture and direction.
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There’s more to sales than simply closing the deal.
Build trust, solve problems, and make Extreme Ownership your long-term sales strategy.
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BARRIERS TO EXTREME OWNERSHIP
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EXTREME OWNERSHIP
All problems are leadership problems. Extreme Ownership 101-112 provides the solutions in a focused package of twelve online Leadership Foundation Courses that teach the fundamental leadership principles from the #1 New York Times bestselling book, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win,delivered by the authors, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.
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DICHOTOMY OF LEADERSHIP
These courses are intended to give you insight into some of the most common dichotomies you will face as a leader – Taking care of your people vs. Accomplishing the Mission, Mentoring vs. Firing, Being Humble vs. Being Passive, Being Detached vs. Being Focused, Accountability vs. Hand-Holding, etc. In each course, Jocko and Leif break down the Dichotomy with real-world examples from both business and combat to help you fully understand what out of balance might look like.
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THE OODA LOOP
Dave and Jocko dive deep into the OODA Loop, a decision-making tool that originated in aerial combat to help pilots win, even when at a disadvantage. The four steps of the OODA Loop process were designed to help pilots make decisions more quickly, giving them an advantage over the competition. In this course, you will learn about the OODA Loop process and how to apply it to business.
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HOW TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS
Dave and Jocko dive deep into the first Law of Combat, Cover and Move. Specifically, they discuss the core of that principle which is relationships. We know that relationships are paramount. Without relationships, we don’t have a team. However, most leaders struggle to define relationships and don’t understand how to build them. This means they will struggle when they attempt to cultivate those relationships. In this course, Jocko and Dave demonstrate the power of relationships, breakdown what a relationship is, and show you how to build them. .
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THE READBACK
In this course, Jocko Willink and Carlos Mendez explain what a readback is, how it works, and why it’s essential to be humble and take ownership.
By utilizing The Readback effectively, you can set yourself and your team up for success. Whether you’re giving information or receiving information, this tool allows you to catch alignment errors before they happen and prevent costly resources from being put toward the wrong priorities.
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THE DEBRIEF
In this course, Jocko Willink and Carlos Mendez teach you how to use the debrief to accelerate and reinforce learning and promote the continuous improvement of every member of your team.
Good leaders don’t let their teams struggle. When you and your team don’t learn from mistakes, there are costly effects on productivity, safety, and team morale. When a debrief is done incorrectly, the right lessons aren’t learned, leadership capital is lost, and the team doesn’t succeed.
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THE INDIRECT APPROACH
Jocko and Dave dive deep into the Indirect Approach, a technique that allows leaders to use humility and ownership to determine the best plan for success. You start by asking earnest questions and leading people to draw their own conclusions rather than telling them what to do. This gives them ownership of the plan and the execution.
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SAFETY AND RISK MITIGATION
The principles of Extreme Ownership apply to every problem you face. This includes Safety and Risk Mitigation. For many industries, Safety is a number one priority. However, even those in dangerous jobs can easily become complacent, and most people don’t want to take ownership of safety incidents.
