The 11 Leadership Shields With Earl Breon

Leadership is immensely important, and most organizations do a terrible job. People usually learn on the job or learn leadership from people with inadequate skills, and that’s how poor leadership perpetuates in organizations.

In this episode, we dive deep into the 11 leadership shields with Earl Breon. He is a leadership coach, marine veteran, and host of the responsible leadership podcast.

In this session, Breon shares his journey in leadership from being a leader at 15years to a group of people in their early 30s, finding out that the idea of command pointing people and telling them what you want them to do doesn’t work for a 30-year-old to figuring out how he can inspire them to listen to him. Besides, he dives deep into the leadership shields and how you can interlock them to be a great leader.

Highlights From The Episode

[01:04] About Earl Breon

[03:35] What inspired Breon’s journey to work with businesses and do coaching for leadership

[04:53] History and Leadership

[08:46] About the book How To Win Friends and Influence People

[09:46]The command and control method

[10:06] Building relationships in leadership

[10:25] The 11 leadership shields

[10:49] Having in mind that people are always watching you

[12:11] Introspection and Improvement

[13:49] Defining success, empowering team members and achieving results

[15:51] Creating the environment for success

[17:47] Working as a team

[18:18] About Breon’s podcast

[21:13] What Breon wishes he was asked but never asked

[23:24] To connect with Earl

Notable Quotes

● When you put these shields together, you interlock and let them work together. It is hard to tear that down, and that is the way the shields work.

● Leadership is just another relationship. Everything that makes a personal relationship work is what’s going to make a leader-follower relationship work.

● You are always on display no matter what you’re doing.

● Never tell people what to do. Tell them what needs to be done, get out of the way, and let them dazzle you with your brilliance.

● Success breeds success

● Stop using I, I and me are out of the door. Everything is we and us. It’s not about taking away your individuality. It’s about enforcing that you work together as a team. That’s how success comes in.

Resources

Mentioned Book

How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

To connect with Earl Breon

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/earlbreon/

Website: https://www.leadershipphalanx.com/earl-breon-1

To tune in to Earl Breon’s podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-responsible-leadership-podcast/id1465893283

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