Coaching practices for Extreme Ownership During Conflict

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• My team dropped the ball again and my first instinct is to point at them or at circumstances
• When something goes wrong my first move is to find whose fault it was, and being right about that leaves me stuck
• My departments are each winning their own little battles while the whole thing loses
• Every single decision funnels through me
• The moment someone challenges my call I feel myself bristle and start building a case for why I’m right, and I’ve noticed people have basically stopped bringing me bad news

Practices that may help

1. Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
   Extreme Ownership, from Navy SEAL officers Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, says the leader owns everything in their world — outcomes, mistakes, and the performance of the team — with no excuses and no blame passed down. It is a battlefield-tested practitioner model, not a lab-tested intervention: the mechanisms are sound, the evidence is experiential.
2. Take extreme ownership
   When the team fails, the leader looks first at what the leader did or failed to do.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
3. Take extreme ownership of outcomes — even ones that aren’t your fault
   Claiming ownership of everything in your domain — even external failures — is the fastest path to fixing them.
   Discipline Equals Freedom: Jocko Willink's Framework
4. Cover and move (teamwork over silos)
   Every team and department exists to support the others toward the same mission, not to win locally.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
5. Decentralized command
   Push decisions to the people closest to the problem, bounded by a clear commander’s intent.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
6. Check the ego
   Ego clouds judgment, blocks feedback, and turns disagreements into contests.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
7. Competing (assertive, uncooperative)
   Pursue your own position firmly when speed, principle, or stakes outweigh the relationship cost.
   The Five Conflict-Resolution Styles
8. Use Competing when speed or safety matters more than buy-in
   Competing — high assertive, low cooperative — is appropriate when the decision is urgent, high-stakes, and not open for debate.
   The Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI)
9. Stick to Values: act consistently with what actually matters to you
   Before compromising a position, check whether the compromise conflicts with a core value — and hold if it does.
   FAST: DBT’s Skill for Maintaining Self-Respect in Relationships
10. Recognize when to shift modes mid-conflict
    The mode that’s right at the start of a conversation may not be right ten minutes in.
    The Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI)

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