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Extreme Ownership™: Accountability-Driven Leadership for High-Performance Teams


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Allan Papares
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Empower your leadership with the proven principles of Extreme Ownership™. Learn to drive team accountability, build trust, and deliver exceptional results through practical, self-paced micro-learning modules tailored for high-performance teams.

Here is the course outline:

1. Welcome to Extreme Ownership™ Leadership

This introductory module orients learners to the philosophy of Extreme Ownership, explains why accountability-driven leadership is essential in retail environments like Wilcon, and previews the five core concepts that will be explored in the course.

The Call to Lead: Why Extreme Ownership Matters
From Battlefield to Sales Floor: Translating SEAL Lessons
Accountability vs. Excuses: Retail Leadership Snapshot
Mindset Shift: Taking 100 % Responsibility
Preview of Your Ownership Journey
Essay Assessment: Embracing Extreme Ownership as a Wilcon Leader
Quiz: Foundations of Extreme Ownership in Retail Leadership
Extreme Ownership Leadership Reflection Project

2. Owning Outcomes: The Core Mindset

Learners dive deeper into the Foundations of Extreme Ownership, examining real-world retail scenarios where leaders accept full responsibility for results and eliminate blame culture.

Recognizing the Blame Trap
Turning Problems into Opportunities
Service Failures = Leadership Gaps
The Reflection Loop: Learn, Adjust, Win
Micro-Challenge: Claim Your Last 24 Hours
Essay Assessment: Demonstrating Extreme Ownership in Retail Leadership
Quiz: Owning Outcomes – The Core Mindset
Extreme Ownership in Action: Leadership Reflection Project

3. Empowering Teams through Decentralized Command

This module shows how giving frontline team members decision-making authority increases agility, initiative, and customer satisfaction while maintaining alignment with leadership intent.

Trust: The Engine of Empowerment
Commander’s Intent: Clear and Simple
Delegation that Inspires Initiative
Guardrails: Maintaining Alignment
SEAL & Wilcon Success Story: Rapid Floor Recovery
Essay Assessment: Empowering Teams through Decentralized Command
Quiz: Empowering Teams through Decentralized Command
Decentralized Command in Action: Team Empowerment Project

4. Prioritize and Execute for Customer Excellence

Participants practice identifying critical issues, setting clear priorities, and acting decisively under pressure to keep operations smooth and customers happy.

Overwhelm to Order: The Power of Prioritization
Identify, Simplify, Communicate
Execute Relentlessly, Review Rapidly
Pressure Scenarios: Peak Hours Playbook
Your 3-Item Action Slate
Essay Assessment: Mastering Prioritize and Execute for Customer Excellence
Quiz: Prioritize and Execute for Customer Excellence
Prioritize and Execute: Customer Excellence Simulation Project

5. Building a Culture of Accountability

Learners explore strategies to create an environment where feedback is valued, standards are upheld, and every employee feels responsible for shared goals.

Accountability as a Team Sport
Feedback that Fuels Growth
Standards + Consequences = Trust
Celebrating Ownership Wins
Accountability Sprint: 7-Day Challenge
Essay Assessment: Applying Accountability Strategies to Your Team
Quiz: Building a Culture of Accountability
Building a Culture of Accountability: Team Challenge Project

6. Ownership in Crisis and Change

Using case studies of service disruptions and organizational shifts, this module applies Extreme Ownership principles to maintain stability, adaptability, and high performance during turbulent times.

Staying Calm in the Storm
Rapid Assessment: What Can We Control?
Communication Anchors in Uncertainty
Pivot, Adapt, Overcome
Building Post-Crisis Momentum
Essay Assessment: Applying Extreme Ownership in Times of Crisis and Change
Quiz: Ownership in Crisis and Change
Extreme Ownership in Crisis: Team Leadership Simulation Project

7. Synchronizing Command, Priorities, and Accountability

Learners integrate Decentralized Command, Prioritize and Execute, and Accountability Culture into a cohesive leadership approach that drives consistent store-level success.

The Leadership Triad: Empower, Focus, Own
Creating Unity of Effort
Live Dashboard: Tracking Priorities & Ownership
Cross-Functional Huddles: Decentralization in Action
Case Win: Store-Wide Promotion Launch
Essay Assessment: Integrating Decentralized Command, Priority Alignment, and Accountability
Quiz: Synchronizing Command, Priorities, and Accountability
Synchronizing Command, Priorities, and Accountability: Capstone Store Scenario

8. Leading Up and Down the Chain of Command

This module trains leaders to influence superiors, peers, and subordinates, ensuring Extreme Ownership principles flow both upward and downward for unified execution.

Influence Without Excuses
Briefing Upward: Equip Your Leaders
Coaching Downward: Clarity & Confidence
Sideways Leadership: Peer Alignment
Chain of Ownership Reflection
Essay Assessment: Applying Leading Up and Down the Chain of Command
Quiz: Leading Up and Down the Chain of Command
Chain of Command Influence Project

9. Personal Extreme Ownership Action Plan

Participants craft a concrete, time-bound plan to embed Extreme Ownership behaviors into daily practice, targeting measurable improvements in team performance and customer experience.

Vision to Reality: Setting Bold Ownership Goals
Mapping Behaviors to Standards
Metrics that Matter
Accountability Partners & Checkpoints
Commitment Statement: I Will Own It
Personal Extreme Ownership Action Plan Essay Assessment
Quiz: Personal Extreme Ownership Action Plan
Personal Extreme Ownership Action Plan Project

10. Course Wrap-Up and Leadership Commitment

The final module reviews key takeaways from all five concepts, reinforces their practical application at Wilcon, and challenges learners to sustain accountability-driven leadership.

Victory Parade: Recap of Key Principles
Integrated Leadership Simulation Debrief
Sustaining Momentum: Habits of Extreme Owners
Your Leadership Legacy at Wilcon
Challenge Coin Ceremony: Make the Promise
Leadership Commitment: Essay Assessment
Quiz: Sustaining Extreme Ownership and Your Leadership Legacy at Wilcon
Leadership Legacy Project: Living Extreme Ownership at Wilcon
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