Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and golajieving. This
Speaker 1: is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul
Speaker 1: Fello Aledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode five ninety three. Let me start with something
Speaker 2: that every leader has felt. You look at your calendar,
Speaker 2: your inbox, your team, your numbers, and you think I
Speaker 2: need to make a big move, a bold move, something visible,
Speaker 2: something that finally shifts momentum. And because of that thinking,
Speaker 2: you overlook the most powerful leadership tool that you already have.
Speaker 2: Small wins, not flashy wins, not LinkedIn headline wins, the
Speaker 2: quiet ones, the ones that feel almost too simple, matter.
Speaker 2: And here's the reality most leaders miss. Big leadership moments
Speaker 2: rarely appear out of nowhere. They're built, stacked, earned through consistent, boring,
Speaker 2: repeatable actions that compound over time. Leadership does not change
Speaker 2: with one heroic decision. It changes when enough small decisions
Speaker 2: point in the same direction. So let's talk about what
Speaker 2: a small win actually is. A small win is following
Speaker 2: up when you said you would. It's starting a meeting
Speaker 2: on time, It's addressing an issue when it's still uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: instead of waiting until it becomes unmanageable. It's giving clear
Speaker 2: expectations instead of assuming people should already know. None of
Speaker 2: those get applause, none of those feel dramatic, but stack
Speaker 2: them and something changes. Your credibility grows, your standards become visible.
Speaker 2: Your team starts trusting patterns instead of promises is and
Speaker 2: this is where some leaders get it wrong. They chase
Speaker 2: momentum instead of building traction. Momentum looks exciting, traction is
Speaker 2: what actually moves things forward. And here's something I've learned
Speaker 2: over decades of leading in environments where mistakes cost real money,
Speaker 2: real trust, and sometimes real lives. People do not follow speeches.
Speaker 2: They follow consistency, and consistency is built one small win
Speaker 2: at a time. Think about the leaders you respect, not
Speaker 2: the ones you admire from a distance, the ones you
Speaker 2: would follow into a hard situation. They did not earn
Speaker 2: that trust in a single day. They earned it by
Speaker 2: showing up the same way on ordinary days. Leadership is
Speaker 2: scored in the margins. How you handle the first five
Speaker 2: minutes of the day, how you respond to a mistake,
Speaker 2: how you speak when no one is clapping Those moments stack.
Speaker 2: There's another hard truth. Some leaders avoid small winds, feel
Speaker 2: slow until they suddenly feel unstoppable. That is the compounding effect.
Speaker 2: You do not notice it early, you question it in
Speaker 2: the middle, and you're grateful for it later. Most leaders
Speaker 2: quit in the middle. They abandon the small disciplines because
Speaker 2: they do not feel impactful enough, so they go searching
Speaker 2: for something bigger. That is how leadership debt is created.
Speaker 2: Every skip conversation, every delayed decision, every standard you ignore
Speaker 2: because it's inconvenient. Those are small losses and losses stack two.
Speaker 2: Leadership is always stacking something. The only question is whether
Speaker 2: you are stacking wins or stacking problems. So let me
Speaker 2: give you a simple leadership filter you can use starting today.
Speaker 2: Ask yourself this, at the end of every day, what
Speaker 2: is one small thing I did today that made leadership
Speaker 2: easier tomorrow. Not impressive, not dramatic, useful. Did you clarify
Speaker 2: something that was vague. Did you close a loop that
Speaker 2: was open. Did you remove friction instead of adding it?
Speaker 2: Those are leadership deposits. And here is where small winds
Speaker 2: turn into big leadership moves. When pressure hits, when something breaks,
Speaker 2: when trust is tested, when the room looks to you
Speaker 2: for direction. That is not the moment to build credibility.
Speaker 2: That is the moment to spend it, and you can
Speaker 2: only spend what you have already earned. Leaders who rely
Speaker 2: on big speeches in big moments usually skip the small
Speaker 2: work beforehand. Leaders who stay calm, clear and trusted in
Speaker 2: big moments usually built that reputation quietly, and this is
Speaker 2: where red key leadership shows up. High consequence moments demand
Speaker 2: leaders who have already proven they handle the low consequence
Speaker 2: ones well. Your team is always watching how you handle
Speaker 2: the small stuff because they know that is how you
Speaker 2: will handle the big stuff. If you want to make
Speaker 2: bigger leadership moves this year, stop asking what bold thing
Speaker 2: you need to do, Start asking what small thing you
Speaker 2: need to do consistently. Here's a practical reset that you
Speaker 2: can use this week. Pick one small leadership behavior and
Speaker 2: lock it in just one. Maybe it's better follow through.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's clearer expectations. Maybe it's addressing issues sooner. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's protecting your calendar from nonsense. Do it every day,
Speaker 2: even when it feels repetitive. That is how leadership compounds,
Speaker 2: not through motivation, through discipline, and discipline is not loud.
Speaker 2: It is reliable. Leadership moves do not come from bursts
Speaker 2: of effort. They come from stacks of proof. Stack enough
Speaker 2: small wins, and one day people will say it feels
Speaker 2: like things changed overnight. They didn't. You build it quietly.
Speaker 2: So leadership is not about chasing moments. It is about
Speaker 2: owning habits. If you want trust, stability, and influence that lasts,
Speaker 2: stop waiting for the big move and start stacking the
Speaker 2: small ones. Seven intentional minutes a day done right will
Speaker 2: outpace every dramatic leadership reset that you can ever imagine.
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Speaker 2: resources that you can download and start using today, and
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