6 Simple Principles That Change EVERYTHING (Navy SEAL Tactics)

0:00 sounds like a lot more than just a leadership training course sounds like a way of life that can help you with all aspects what you're going through with your family with your business wherever it was the first Epiphany for me of like hey everything that we learned here applies and the world needs this it's not me that's doing it's not joo's doing it we just shared some lessons learn that they actually have to apply that's the hard part the world needs leadership leadership is the solution to people's problems they they don't know that they don't know it and what we understood is that leadership is a skill it's a skill that we're not born with it's a skill that we have to learn and you're not just like you don't know how to play the piano when you're born or drive a car or you know shoot a basketball or wrestle or whatever it is like you have to learn that stuff you might have some innate abilities that give you an advantage

0:45 over others you know that may maybe give you a leg up on others but if you're not willing to learn the skill you're not going to improve you're not going to get better and I think leadership is exactly the same way and I I witnessed that over and over again when I was teaching that course because I saw um leaders who might have what you might think are a lot of of um innate leadership qualities that that would be important right like they were charismatic they could you know they weren't nervous to stand up in front of a room and present an idea or talk to their team um and then you had other leaders that were super introverted like didn't want to you know like were terrified to stand up in front of a group and present an idea and of course I made them do that all the time you know to try to get them used to that

1:31 but what I realized is that even people that you might have think have all this Advantage with these inequalities of Charisma or you know they're kind of a you know loud you know person that that that kind of people gravitate toward or they can engage with people and if that person wasn't willing to learn if that person wasn't willing to hum humble themselves and get better and apply you know and and take ownership of mistakes they made and apply uh the skill of leadership going forward to improve like they didn't get better they they they struggled and some of them actually got fired um and yet I watch leaders who who who were terrified to stand up in front of a group like super introverted like the quiet spoken kind of soft spoken types maybe didn't have any of the what you might Define as an inate quality that might give people an advantage of leadership and they did awesome I mean

2:18 they were phenomenal as as long as they they were willing to learn they were willing to approve and they were willing to get better all the time and and I'd see those guys go um some guys who struggled in the field training exer Siz portion of that that that uh course that I ran and I and I I would see them get better and then and watch them go out on the battlefield and do amazing things man and have their guys talk about what an extraordinary leader they were and how they made you know just how they Sav lives or uh you know were able to build relationships or vector resource I mean just incredible stuff and and so that to me it was a recognition of like every everything that we learn applies you know to to people in the corporate world in the business world we work with people people in the nonprofit sector in the education space you know First Responders we do a ton of work and when

3:05 people come come back to us and tell us that you know extreme ownership saved their marriage you know when they were blaming their wife for all their problems and you know the wife blaming their husband for all their problems or you know having issues with their kids and and um or or they were frustrated at work uh that they were in a hopeless situation and didn't feel like they had any influence on the organization didn't think that their leaders cared about them and and they were able to start to take ownership of those problems and lead up chain in command um it's amazing to see it's amazing to see it's not me that's doing it it's not Joo that's doing it we just shared some lessons learned that they actually have to apply that's the hard part you know I could share some concept with you that can then that can help you um but it's it's up to you to actually put your own you go in check have an honest assessment with yourself and actually you know Implement a solution to get problem

3:51 solved going forward and I think you know for us probably the best thing that we do is just help people realize what winning looks like what does winning look like you know is is it what does winning look like for you um and when you start to think about that from a detached perspective it's not about how much money you make right it's it's it's not about you know proving that you're right um you know if you're in a conflict with someone it's actually about um it's about building the strongest relationships that you can you know with people and having the most impact in the world that you can and spending time with the people that you love and care about most you know that that's most important and and so I think when we can get people attached from their itions kind of put their ego in check and like if you and I have a conflict at a company and we let's say we're fighting over resources and we're two department

4:37 heads I want those resources you want the resources you know I'm I'm in there like lobbying to have the resources taken away from you um you know or some case that may be so it may be we'll see conflicts that that get created so bad that we might have to only we can only communicate with through like mediated email by HR this this is what happens wow human conflicts and you're like wow crazy when when when you can help someone say like hey uh is it important is that other department important for like what you're trying to do in your department like yeah it is okay do you think it's important that you have a good relationship with the the leader of that department like yeah it probably is you know and so like when you when you

5:22 can't communicate with someone except the immediate email by HR does that do you think that makes you look what does that look like to everybody El as a leader you know when you can when you can help them start to reveal the truth what's the chairman of the board thinking about what's the CEO what's the senior executive team thinking about you like how's that do you think you're ever going to get a chance to be promoted up the chain you know if you can't actually get along with people and work alongside and build a friendly Coalition so you guys can actually cover and move for each other usually support one another so that the team can win and when you get people start to think about leadership like that and they realize like oh you know they're looking at this little tactical victory of like I'm trying to get the best of this person you know that I'm going to demand that that I get the resources from them and that's what winning looks like and it's really the opposite right what if I care

6:07 about the team like I should be in their Lobby and for you to get the resources like hey you know what um Sean we got some limited resources here your team needs these resources more than my I I think my team can probably do without until we can get you know more resources available I'm going to give these resource to you we're going to build an awesome relationship man I'm going to help the team win that's I'm I'm showing everybody I put the team and the mission before myself or my team in our own interests and uh and it's like this is what it takes right to to if I want to be a a winning a member of a a high performance winning team like that's the attitude I could have and and when you when you start to just get people to see like what winning actually looks like um it's it's often very different than but you know you got if you can put your

6:52 emotions in ch put your ego in check it it just you free your mind man you know this sounds like a lot more of a uh lot more than just a leadership training course sounds like a a a way of life and uh that can help you with all aspects you know what you're going through with your family with your business wherever wherever in the military doesn't matter sounds like these aspects apply to to every every aspect of life and uh that's really cool that you guys put that together I appreciate it man it's I wanted to be able to share that and uh it's uh it's it's it's like I said it's humbly it's humbly to see how many people have taken

7:37 and and utilize that you know but if I can help even one person out there in some way to not make the mistakes that I've made as a knucklehead leader to not lead with ego or try to prove that I know you know all the answers um I think uh that to me makes all the difference right of of the uh it's in life right it's it's it's be humble or get humble that's the way it is so um happy to pass those lessons on