Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and goalagiving. This
Speaker 1: is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul Fellavledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode six point thirty four. Today we're talking about
Speaker 2: the five leadership non negotiables. Not preferences, not personality traits,
Speaker 2: not things you get to turn on and off depending
Speaker 2: on your mood. Non negotiables. I've spent nearly three decades
Speaker 2: in the front seat of an ambulance, inside a command
Speaker 2: post during disasters, in boardrooms, on airport ramps, staring at
Speaker 2: a weather report that was not in my favor. And
Speaker 2: here's what I know. When pressure hits, leadership gets exposed. Titles,
Speaker 2: charisma fades, excuses get loud. What remains are your non negotiables?
Speaker 2: So let me give you five that I believe every
Speaker 2: serious leader must hardwire into their DNA number one accountability.
Speaker 2: If you cannot say that's on me, you are not leading.
Speaker 2: I do not care if it was a system failure.
Speaker 2: I do not care if it was an employee mistake.
Speaker 2: I don't care if the economy shifted. If you are
Speaker 2: in the chair. You own the outcome. In aviation. If
Speaker 2: something goes wrong in that cockpit, the pilot in command
Speaker 2: does not get to blame the weather. The weather is
Speaker 2: a factor. It is not an excuse. The same is
Speaker 2: true for you. Accountability is not about punishment. It's about credibility.
Speaker 2: The moment your team sees you deflect, they start protecting
Speaker 2: themselves instead of advancing the mission. Own it fast, fix
Speaker 2: it faster. Number two standards, what you tolerate becomes your culture.
Speaker 2: I've said this for years and I will keep saying it.
Speaker 2: If you allow mediocrity, you will get mediocrity. If you
Speaker 2: wink at shortcuts, shortcuts will define you. Standards are not
Speaker 2: written in a manual. They are enforced in the moment.
Speaker 2: It is the late employee you address. It is the
Speaker 2: sloppy email you send back for correction. It's the corner
Speaker 2: that almost got cut but did not because you were
Speaker 2: watching in ems. We don't get to be ninety percent
Speaker 2: right in the cockpit. You do not get to be
Speaker 2: mostly on course. One degree off over time puts you
Speaker 2: miles from where you intend to land. Standards are daily,
Speaker 2: not annual. Number three is clarity. Confusion is expensive. If
Speaker 2: your team does not know what winning looks like, they
Speaker 2: will invent their own version of it and it will
Speaker 2: not match yours. Clarity means your expectations are simple, measurable, repeatable.
Speaker 2: It means you can explain your mission in plain language
Speaker 2: without hiding behind corporate bs or corporate buzzwords. If I
Speaker 2: walk into your organization and ask your team what matters
Speaker 2: most here, I should hear the same answer five times.
Speaker 2: Clarity reduces anxiety, It reduces politics, It reduces mistakes. In
Speaker 2: emergency management, we use checklists for a reason. Under stress,
Speaker 2: Clarity beats memory. Your organization needs leadership checklists.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 2: What do we do when revenue dips? What do we
Speaker 2: do when conflict rises? What do we do when someone
Speaker 2: violates trust? Clarity is calm in written form. Number four integrity.
Speaker 2: Integrity is what you do when nobody is filming. It's
Speaker 2: returning the shopping cart when no one is watching. It's
Speaker 2: correcting a billing error that favored you. It's having the
Speaker 2: hard conversation that costs you short term comfort. Your team
Speaker 2: does not need you to be perfect. They need you
Speaker 2: to be consistent. If your value shift based on who
Speaker 2: is in the room, your authority evaporates. I've worked disasters
Speaker 2: where the public was scared, angry, and emotional. In those moments,
Speaker 2: your tone, your honesty, your transparency matter more than your rank.
Speaker 2: Integrity builds what I call microsecond trust, that kind that
Speaker 2: forms instantly because people sense you're real. Lose that and
Speaker 2: everything else becomes harder. Number five is courage. Leadership without
Speaker 2: courage is management. Courage is firing the high performer who
Speaker 2: poisons the team. Courage is saying no to the board
Speaker 2: when they want optics over ethics. Courage is stepping into
Speaker 2: the media spotlight when something went wrong. Courage is also
Speaker 2: quieter than people think. It's raising your hand and saying
Speaker 2: I need help. It's admitting you were wrong. It's choosing
Speaker 2: long term stability over short term applause. In my red
Speaker 2: key leadership framework, there are moments that define you, high
Speaker 2: consequence moments, the kind where everyone is watching to see
Speaker 2: who you really are. Those are courage checkpoints. You do
Speaker 2: not rise to the level of your ambition in those moments,
Speaker 2: you fall to the level of your discipline. So let
Speaker 2: me recap accountability, standards, clarity, integrity, courage. If you're missing one,
Speaker 2: your leadership has a leak here is your seven minute
Speaker 2: drill for today. Write those five down next to each
Speaker 2: each one, rate yourself from one to ten. Then ask
Speaker 2: one trusted person to rate you on the same five.
Speaker 2: If there's a gap, that gap is your work. Leadership
Speaker 2: is not built in a seminar. It's built in moments,
Speaker 2: small corrections, daily discipline. And here's the truth. Your team
Speaker 2: already knows your non negotiables. The question is whether they're
Speaker 2: the right ones. So if this episode hit you in
Speaker 2: the gut a little bit, good, that means you're paying attention.
Speaker 2: Leadership is not about being liked. It's about being relied upon.
Speaker 2: Lock in your non negotiables, guard them, live them, and
Speaker 2: when pressure shows up, let those five carry you through.
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