Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and golachieving. This
Speaker 1: is the seven minute Leadership podcast with your host Paul
Speaker 1: fella Aledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to this seven minute leadership podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode three sixty two. Today's episode is for every
Speaker 2: leader who has found success checked the boxes, build a
Speaker 2: decent team, and earn the respect of their organization, but
Speaker 2: still feels like they're just good, not bad, not average,
Speaker 2: but not great either. So let me hit you with
Speaker 2: something hard right out of the gate. Good is often
Speaker 2: the enemy of great. Good gets comfortable, Good stops asking questions,
Speaker 2: Good hits autopilot, but great. Great stays hungry, Great stays uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: Great doesn't sit in the same chair for too long.
Speaker 2: So if you're ready to go from good to great,
Speaker 2: really ready, here's the leadership roadmap. Number one. Greatness requires
Speaker 2: brutal honesty. Let's start with a gut check. Take a
Speaker 2: look at yourself, not just your wins, but your blind spots.
Speaker 2: When's the last time you asked your team for feedback
Speaker 2: that you didn't want to hear. If you only surround
Speaker 2: yourself with yes people or avoid tough conversations. You're choosing
Speaker 2: comfort over growth. Great leaders ask where am I slipping?
Speaker 2: Where am I coasting? What am I ignoring? The moment
Speaker 2: you stop flinching at the truth is the moment you
Speaker 2: unlock your next level. Number two, Greatness is boring before
Speaker 2: it's brilliant. Great leaders do the hard stuff over and over.
Speaker 2: They prep meetings, they follow up, they check in, they
Speaker 2: review performance. They hold people accountable consistently. That's not glamorous.
Speaker 2: But great isn't always about the big stage. It's about
Speaker 2: the discipline in the shadows. If you want to be great,
Speaker 2: fall in love with repetition. Make boring your superpower. Number three,
Speaker 2: great leaders build great people. Here's a truth bomb. If
Speaker 2: you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the
Speaker 2: wrong room. Great leaders don't hoard knowledge. They build people
Speaker 2: who can one day replace them. That's legacy leadership. Shift
Speaker 2: your mindset. Your greatness isn't proven by what you can do.
Speaker 2: It's proven by what your team can do when you're
Speaker 2: not in the room. In Number four, good leaders manage tasks.
Speaker 2: Great leaders shape culture. Culture isn't ping pong tables or
Speaker 2: free coffee. It's how your people feel. In a random
Speaker 2: Tuesday morning. It's how they talk about you when you're
Speaker 2: not around. Ask yourself, what's the vibe when you walk
Speaker 2: in the room. Do people sit up straight or because
Speaker 2: they're inspired or because they're scared. Great leaders set the
Speaker 2: tone every single day. In the last one, Greatness isn't
Speaker 2: a title, it's a daily choice. There's no graduation ceremony
Speaker 2: for leadership. You don't arrive at great You wake up
Speaker 2: and earn it again and again. You show up curious,
Speaker 2: you make the hard call, you apologize when you screw up,
Speaker 2: you get better, then you do it again tomorrow. That's
Speaker 2: the climb, that's the grit. That's what separates leaders who
Speaker 2: are good enough from the ones whose names get remembered.
Speaker 2: So if you're listening to this and you're a good leader, congrats.
Speaker 2: That means you've already beaten average, You've already stepped up.
Speaker 2: But if you've got that fire in your gut that
Speaker 2: says there's more. I'm here to tell you there is
Speaker 2: the great version of you who is already inside. It's
Speaker 2: just waiting for you to stop settling. So go back
Speaker 2: to the basics. Do the hard stuff, get feedback, train
Speaker 2: your team, build your culture, and tomorrow do it all again,
Speaker 2: one intentional minute at a time. This has been the
Speaker 2: seven Minute Leadership Podcast, and I thank you for listening.
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