Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building and GOALAJV. This
Speaker 1: is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul Fellowledo.
Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to the Seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 1: It's episode three fifty six. Today we're talking about something
Speaker 1: that could breathe life into your leadership culture and supercharge
Speaker 1: your team. How to create a mini leadership boot camp. Now,
Speaker 1: when I say boot camp, I'm not talking about yelling
Speaker 1: in someone's face at five am. I'm talking about a fun,
Speaker 1: fast paced, and highly actionable session that gives your team
Speaker 1: real leadership tools without needing to book a hotel, ballroom
Speaker 1: or spend thousands of dollars. So let's talk about that.
Speaker 1: Step one, set the stage ninety minutes, one room, one goal.
Speaker 1: Your mini leadership boot camp should be short, sharp and focused.
Speaker 1: Carve out ninety minutes in your team schedule. That's it.
Speaker 1: Let your team know this isn't just another meeting, It's
Speaker 1: an experience and the goal is simple. To walk out
Speaker 1: of the room a stronger, more self aware leader than
Speaker 1: when you walked in. And a pro tip, create a
Speaker 1: simple printed boot camp packet. Give it a name, print
Speaker 1: out badges, make it feel like something special. In step two,
Speaker 1: kick it off with energy. Start with this question what
Speaker 1: makes a leader unforgettable? Go around the room and let
Speaker 1: people share one trait write them on a board. You'll
Speaker 1: start to see a pattern, things like honesty, decisiveness, empathy, consistency.
Speaker 1: These answers become your north star for the rest of
Speaker 1: the session. You're not teaching abstract theory. You're building leaders
Speaker 1: who live those traits every day. Step three is drill
Speaker 1: number one, and this is the sixty second stand up.
Speaker 1: Each team member stands up and answers this question, what's
Speaker 1: one leadership moment I'm proud of? This isn't about job titles.
Speaker 1: It's about real moments, helping a teammate through a crisis,
Speaker 1: or stepping up during a tough shift, or solving a
Speaker 1: problem no one else saw. This creates a ripple effect.
Speaker 1: You'll see who's been quietly leading from the sidelines, and
Speaker 1: you'll boost confidence in your team without a single PowerPoint slide.
Speaker 1: And step four is drill number two, and this is
Speaker 1: called the scenario slam. Give your team three real world
Speaker 1: leadership scenarios and you can pull these from past incidents.
Speaker 1: Or make them up. Here's an example. You overhear two
Speaker 1: team members gossiping about a colleague. What do you do?
Speaker 1: Break into small groups and let them work through each scenario.
Speaker 1: The key is action. What would you actually do, not
Speaker 1: just what sounds good in theory, and bring it back
Speaker 1: to the room and discuss it. Real time feedback equals
Speaker 1: real time growth. Step number five is drill number three.
Speaker 1: Write your leadership rule. Now we flip the script. Each
Speaker 1: person writes their own personal leadership rule, and it could
Speaker 1: be I will always speak last and listen first, or
Speaker 1: I will never let a teammate feel invisible, or I
Speaker 1: will lead how I want to be led. Have each
Speaker 1: person stand up and read theirs out loud. This becomes
Speaker 1: their personal leadership Compass something they can pin to a
Speaker 1: locker or tape to a desk or save on their phone.
Speaker 1: And step number six is celebrate and commit. End with
Speaker 1: this exercise, go around the room again and ask this question,
Speaker 1: what will you do differently as a leader starting tomorrow?
Speaker 1: And capture those answers, write them down, make a commitment board.
Speaker 1: You don't need a formal graduation ceremony from this, but
Speaker 1: if you want to hand out fun little boot camp certificates,
Speaker 1: do it, celebrate the progress, and the bonus tip with
Speaker 1: all of this is do it again. The best boot
Speaker 1: camps aren't one time events. Make it a quarterly tradition.
Speaker 1: Each time, change the theme, communication, crisis leadership, or conflict resolution.
Speaker 1: Rotate the facilitators of this exercise, keep it fresh. This
Speaker 1: small habit will lead to big cultural shifts in your organization.
Speaker 1: So I've done on this with my team throughout the years.
Speaker 1: We have done murder mystery games, set up an ice
Speaker 1: cream parlor and task everyone to build Sundays, and I've
Speaker 1: even taken my team flying. Because leadership development doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be boring. It doesn't have to be a binder
Speaker 1: full of bs. With just ninety minutes, a whiteboard, and
Speaker 1: a handful of real world scenarios, you can build your
Speaker 1: own mini boot camp that teaches your team how to
Speaker 1: lead themselves and others with confidence and purpose. Or if
Speaker 1: you want to go all out, the sky's the limit.
Speaker 1: This has been the seven Minute Leadership Podcast, and I
Speaker 1: thank you for listening. For more Paul Fell of Alito Podcasts,
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