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.
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Your problems feel overwhelming and insurmountable, and it’s our human nature to shift blame, find excuses, and avoid consequences. But taking ownership over what went wrong and accepting the reality of the situation gives you complete control over how you can solve these challenges. Taught by the NYT-best selling authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, this Extreme Ownership Foundations course will empower you with skills and solutions, so you can successfully lead your team to win.
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A leader is constantly pulled in different directions: by their team, by their responsibilities, by their ego, and by trying to do the ‘right’ thing. Jocko Willink and Leif Babin have carefully walked the line of leadership, and in this course, they help you understand the critical balance between mentorship and accountability, being humble versus passive, how to be both a follower and leader, and many other common leadership conundrums.
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.
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Teams often struggle to create plans and communicate when egos attempt to control and direct others. Through the indirect approach, Jocko Willink and Dave Berke help you ask the right questions so that your team can create strategies and achieve success.
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Minor miscommunications and a lack of clarity can quickly snowball into big problems. Jocko Willink and Carlos Mendez will teach you how to utilize Readback, an effective communication tool that enables you to catch, communicate, and correct your mistakes so your team can reach its fullest potential.
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Your team’s repetitive mistakes cost you time, money, and stagnation. But reviewing the team’s performance with the Debrief, you can effectively give feedback to celebrate your wins while catching common errors and preventing them from occurring.
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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Your frustrations and obstacles are all rooted in the lack of trust built with the people around you. Whether building a cohesive team or nurturing the bonds of those closest to you, Jocko and Dave will teach you the four keys to unlocking successful, gratifying relationships that foster teamwork and secure lifelong connections. The meaningful relationships you cultivate, initiate, and maintain will directly contribute to your level of success.
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Making the right decision can paralyze and scare both individuals and organizations. But by utilizing the OODA Loop – a winning pilot-fighter tool Dave Berke learned at Top Gun – you will have the skills to respond to problems with quicker, more productive solutions.
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Establishing a culture of Extreme Ownership throughout an organization aligns each individual contributor to a shared mission. They understand the underlying values that drive every decision giving them the ability to make decisions without having to ask for direction at every turn. Things get done and problems get solved on the frontlines freeing those higher in the chain of command to focus on strategic paths to victory.
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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Micromanagement can be incredibly frustrating for the team, and it can be a destructive force in the company culture and work ethic. Whether you are a frontline worker or caring leader, Jocko and Leif will help mitigate micromanagement by building more trust and better relationships.
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As a Middle Manager, you must balance competing priorities to meet your bosses’ demands, inspire your team, and get the job done. With this role-specific course by Jocko and Dave, you’ll gain influence over the people up and down the chain of command, so you can progress your organization’s culture, direction, and mission.
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Sales professionals get an unfortunate reputation for only caring more about the deal than their clients or problems. But in this sales course, Extreme Ownership Approach to Sales with JP Dinnell and Jocko Willink, you can learn how leadership applies to help you work better with people, build trust, and become a sales rep that people look forward to receiving calls from.
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Being able to work through challenges with your partner and in parenting is a difficult balance – and not one for which leadership training immediately comes to mind. But through the experiences of Dave Berke and Jamie Cochran applying Extreme Ownership principles in their homes, they can teach you just how impactful you can be as a leader and example in your family.
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Everyone wants to get home safely at the end of a workday, but on busy sites, people quickly get complacent with protocols and risk endangering one another. But with JP Dinnell and Leif Babin’s Safety and Risk Mitigation approach, you will create a proactive and preventative culture that protects your team against hazardous disasters.
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There is no easy shortcut. Achieving your goals requires hard work, every day, without any excuses. With Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s proven tactics, you’ll develop the true driver of success – discipline – and freedom, so you’ll unlock better health, better relationships, and better work performance.
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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.
