Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and goal achieving.
Speaker 1: This is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host
Speaker 1: Paul Fallavalito.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode six eighty two. Today we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about something that separates average leaders from elite ones, and
Speaker 2: it has nothing to do with strategy, titles, or experience.
Speaker 2: It comes down to human performance behavior and I've seen
Speaker 2: this play out on scenes in boardrooms and aircraft cockpits
Speaker 2: and in team meetings. The leaders who understand how people
Speaker 2: actually perform under pressure, under stress, and under normal daily conditions,
Speaker 2: those are the leaders who win consistently, not sometimes consistently.
Speaker 2: So today I'm giving you five behavior tips that you
Speaker 2: need to understand if you want to lead at a
Speaker 2: high level. Tip Number one, people do not rise to expectations.
Speaker 2: They fall to systems. You can give the best speech
Speaker 2: of your career. You can tell your team exactly what
Speaker 2: you expect. It will not matter if your systems don't
Speaker 2: support it. People default to what is easy, repeatable, and reinforced.
Speaker 2: If your system allows shortcuts, people will take them. If
Speaker 2: your system rewards consistency, people will build consistency. As a leader,
Speaker 2: your job is not to say at once in hope
Speaker 2: it sticks. Your job is to build systems that make
Speaker 2: the right behavior the default, behavior checklists, routines, accountability loops.
Speaker 2: That's where performance lives, not in motivation speeches. Tip number two.
Speaker 2: Behavior follows clarity, not intention. Most leaders think their people
Speaker 2: are not trying hard enough, and that is usually wrong.
Speaker 2: Most people are trying, they are just confused. Confusion kills
Speaker 2: performance faster than laziness ever will. If someone on your
Speaker 2: team is under performing, ask yourself this question. Have I
Speaker 2: made this crystal clear? What does success look like? What
Speaker 2: does failure look like? What happens if they get it right?
Speaker 2: What happens if they don't. Clarity removes guesswork, And when
Speaker 2: you remove guesswork, you remove hesitation. And hesitation is where
Speaker 2: performance breaks down. Tip number three. Stress exposes the truth,
Speaker 2: not the exception. You don't see real performance on a
Speaker 2: calm day. You see it when everything goes sideways, when
Speaker 2: the tones drop, when the phone rings, when the meeting
Speaker 2: goes off the rails. That's when behavior shows up in
Speaker 2: its raw form. Stress does not create new habits. It
Speaker 2: reveals the habits that were already there. So if your
Speaker 2: team falls apart under pressure, it's not because of the pressure,
Speaker 2: it's because of what you allowed to become normal during
Speaker 2: the calm train, the way you want people to perform
Speaker 2: when it matters, because when the moment hits, nobody is
Speaker 2: thinking about your policy manual. They are running on habit.
Speaker 2: Tip number four. People repeat what gets recognized. This is
Speaker 2: one of the most misunderstood parts of leadership. Leaders think
Speaker 2: recognition is about being nice. Recognition is a performance tool.
Speaker 2: Whatever you call out, whatever you acknowledge, whatever you give
Speaker 2: attention to, you are telling your team do more of this.
Speaker 2: If you ignore great work, it fades. If you highlight
Speaker 2: poor behavior by constantly talking about it, it spreads. You
Speaker 2: are shaping behavior every single day with what you choose
Speaker 2: to recognize. So be intentional. Catch people doing it right,
Speaker 2: call it out, make it visible. That's how you build momentum.
Speaker 2: Tip number five. Energy is contagious and it starts with you.
Speaker 2: You walk into a room, and whether you realize it
Speaker 2: or not, you set the tone. If you're distracted, your
Speaker 2: team feels it. If your negative, your team mirrors it.
Speaker 2: If you're sharp, focused and present, your team elevates leadership.
Speaker 2: Energy is not a soft concept, it's operational. I've walked
Speaker 2: into scenes where one calm leader changed everything. I've also
Speaker 2: seen one chaotic leader make a bad situation worse. You
Speaker 2: don't get to separate your mood from your leadership. They
Speaker 2: are the same thing. So check yourself before you check
Speaker 2: your team. Now, let me bring this all together for you.
Speaker 2: Human performance is not random. It is predictable. It follows systems, clarity, repetition, recognition,
Speaker 2: and energy. If you understand those five things, you stop
Speaker 2: guessing as a leader. You start shaping behavior on purpose.
Speaker 2: And here is where this really matters. We are moving
Speaker 2: into a world where distractions are higher, expectations are higher,
Speaker 2: and the margin for error is getting smaller. Leaders who
Speaker 2: understand human performance will have an edge that others don't
Speaker 2: because while everyone else is chasing the next leadership trend
Speaker 2: or reading the next book filled with corporate buzzwords, you
Speaker 2: are focused on what actually drive results, real behavior, real performance,
Speaker 2: real leadership. And that is what separates a leader who
Speaker 2: talks about leadership from one who actually leads. So here
Speaker 2: is your challenge. Pick one of these five tips and
Speaker 2: apply it today, not tomorrow, not next week. Do it today.
Speaker 2: Look at your systems, look at your clarity, look at
Speaker 2: what you recognize, and look at your own energy. Seven
Speaker 2: minutes is all it takes to start making a shift,
Speaker 2: seven minutes to become more aware, seven minutes to become
Speaker 2: more intentional, and over time, those seven minutes will build
Speaker 2: a leader your team can count on when it matters most.
Speaker 2: This has been the seven Minute Leadership Podcast, and I
Speaker 2: thank you for listening.
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