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<v Speaker 1>Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of

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<v Speaker 1>performance through strong human relations, team building, and goalajiving. This

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<v Speaker 1>is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul

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<v Speaker 1>Fello Aledo.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>It's episode five forty four. Today. I want to give

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<v Speaker 2>you something that will change how you lead starting today.

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<v Speaker 2>It is a simple habit, A lens you can carry

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<v Speaker 2>in your pocket, and once you start using it, you

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<v Speaker 2>will never look at your conversations the same way again.

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<v Speaker 2>I call it emotional return on investment. You already measure

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<v Speaker 2>the return on investment of money, time, effort, and resources.

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<v Speaker 2>Leaders do that all day long. One thing most leaders

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<v Speaker 2>never track is the emotional return they leave behind after

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<v Speaker 2>every interaction. This one idea explains why some teams thrive

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<v Speaker 2>while others crumble, even when everything else on the surface

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<v Speaker 2>looks the same. Here is the question to ask, after

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<v Speaker 2>every conversation, meeting, email, hallway, chat, shift change, or coaching moment,

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<v Speaker 2>did I leave this person more energized, less energized, or neutral?

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<v Speaker 2>That is emotional ROI and it is one of the

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<v Speaker 2>cleanest mirrors you can hold up to your leadership. Let

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<v Speaker 2>me tell you how I learned this Many years ago.

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<v Speaker 2>I was leading a project that was running hot pressure. Everywhere.

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<v Speaker 2>People were tired and stretched. I started noticing something strange.

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<v Speaker 2>There were two employees who always walked into my office

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<v Speaker 2>with the same body language, shoulders slightly forward in a

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<v Speaker 2>quiet hesitation, like they were bracing for impact. I kept

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<v Speaker 2>thinking it was the project. Then one day I stepped

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<v Speaker 2>back and tracked my emotional ROI. I asked myself the

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<v Speaker 2>same question I'm asking you, what did they get from me?

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<v Speaker 2>After each interaction and every time, I realized I was

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<v Speaker 2>giving them urgency without clarity, intensity without reassurance, and feedback

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<v Speaker 2>without any direction. My energy was costing them confidence. That

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<v Speaker 2>was the return I was giving. The moment I realized

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<v Speaker 2>that that was what was happening, everything shifted for me.

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<v Speaker 2>Emotional ROI became a habit. Then it became second nature.

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<v Speaker 2>Then it became a standard. I hold myself too every day.

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<v Speaker 2>And here's why this works. Patterns appear. You start to

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<v Speaker 2>see who you elevate, who you accidentally drain, who you

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<v Speaker 2>stay neutral with, and most importantly, what those patterns say

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<v Speaker 2>about how you show up. Leaders love to think their

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<v Speaker 2>intentions matter the most, but emotional ROI exposes the reality

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<v Speaker 2>how did they feel when they walked away from you?

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<v Speaker 2>Because that feeling becomes the story they tell themselves about

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<v Speaker 2>working with you. Enough of those stories stitch together creates

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<v Speaker 2>the culture of the team, and that is why emotional

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<v Speaker 2>ROI becomes one of the best culture scorecards that you

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<v Speaker 2>could ever use. So let me show you how to

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<v Speaker 2>use this at a practical level. You don't need a

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<v Speaker 2>long system. You need a note on your phone or

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<v Speaker 2>a page in your notebook. After every interaction, put a

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<v Speaker 2>quick mark beside one of these three letters E, D

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<v Speaker 2>or N, Energized, drained or neutral. It takes two seconds.

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<v Speaker 2>At the end of the week, review it. That review

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<v Speaker 2>is where the gold is. Maybe you'll see that you

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<v Speaker 2>energize your top performers but drain your new hires. That

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<v Speaker 2>tells you your coaching style needs more reassurance. Maybe you

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<v Speaker 2>will see that you stay neutral with peers, which means

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<v Speaker 2>your communication style feels transactional. Neutral feels safe, but it

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<v Speaker 2>rarely inspires. Maybe you'll see that one specific person drains

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<v Speaker 2>you every time. That means you have an unresolved issue

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<v Speaker 2>with them that you have not addressed and it is

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<v Speaker 2>starting to leak into the culture. Emotional ROI exposes these

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<v Speaker 2>things so you can fix them before they grow. Now

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<v Speaker 2>here is your action move In every one on one conversation,

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<v Speaker 2>give one piece of energy, rich feedback, recognition, clarity, or purpose.

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<v Speaker 2>Pick one and deliver it in a clean sentence. Recognition

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<v Speaker 2>sounds like I saw how you handled that situation yesterday

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<v Speaker 2>and it made the team better. Clarity sounds like here

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<v Speaker 2>is the outcome I need from you next, so you

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<v Speaker 2>know exactly what success looks like. And purpose sounds like

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<v Speaker 2>what you were doing here matters because it directly affects

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<v Speaker 2>the experience for the people we serve. Those sentences cost

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<v Speaker 2>you nothing, and they give people fuel that lasts for days.

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<v Speaker 2>That is emotional ROI in action, because you are intentionally

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<v Speaker 2>sending someone out of that conversation with more energy than

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<v Speaker 2>they came into it with. And if you do this

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<v Speaker 2>for one month, something big will happen. People will start

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<v Speaker 2>walking into meetings with less tension. Team conversations will feel smoother.

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<v Speaker 2>You will see fewer defensive reactions. You will notice people

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<v Speaker 2>volunteering ideas instead of protecting themselves. That shift is not luck,

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<v Speaker 2>It is leadership math. The more emotional ROI you put in,

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<v Speaker 2>the more energy the team produces. Leaders who ignore emotional

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<v Speaker 2>ROI always wonder why their teams crumble slowly without a

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<v Speaker 2>visible cause. Leaders who track it understand why their teams

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<v Speaker 2>stay resilient even when things get tough. It always comes

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<v Speaker 2>back to the energy you circulate. So here is your

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<v Speaker 2>challenge for the next seven days, your emotional ROI and

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<v Speaker 2>commit to one energy rich sentence in every one on one.

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<v Speaker 2>Do this and watch the patterns reveal themselves. Patterns tell

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<v Speaker 2>the truth and once you know the truth, change becomes easy.

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<v Speaker 2>And before we wrap up, I want to let you

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<v Speaker 2>know that my YouTube channel is now home to leadership

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<v Speaker 2>content from the show. I'm adding leadership short videos built

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<v Speaker 2>from the strongest moments in each episode, and I will

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<v Speaker 2>more leaders who need it around the world. This has

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<v Speaker 2>been the seven Minute Leadership Podcast, and I thank you

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