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 the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode four seventy one. Someone once asked me a
Speaker 2: simple but powerful question, what do I enjoy more being
Speaker 2: a paramedic or being the chief of the organization. I
Speaker 2: didn't even hesitate to answer. As a paramedic, I've treated
Speaker 2: thousands of patients, chest pain, shortness of breath, motor vehicle accidents,
Speaker 2: you name it, I've seen it. It's direct, it's immediate,
Speaker 2: and most times you know if your actions made an
Speaker 2: impact on that person. You see it in the patient's size,
Speaker 2: or in their recovery, or in the grady to their family.
Speaker 2: It's tangible. But when I became the chief of my organization,
Speaker 2: my thoughts changed. I wasn't just treating patients anymore. I
Speaker 2: was stepping into a completely different arena. My job wasn't
Speaker 2: just about saving one person at a time. It was
Speaker 2: about setting the tone, building a team, creating a culture.
Speaker 2: That sounds exciting, but here's the truth that comes with
Speaker 2: no guarantees. Think of an NFL football team for a second.
Speaker 2: Every year at training camp, every coach and every team
Speaker 2: tells their fans the same story. We're going to have
Speaker 2: a winning season, We're going to make a run at
Speaker 2: the super Bowl. And that energy is real. The players
Speaker 2: believe it, the coaches believe it, and the fans believe it.
Speaker 2: But the reality, only one team gets to hoist the
Speaker 2: Lombardi Trophy at the end of the season. Only one
Speaker 2: team gets to prove that their preparation, their culture, and
Speaker 2: their teamwork was strong enough to outlast everybody else. Leadership
Speaker 2: is the same when you're promoted into that chief role
Speaker 2: or that director role or that CEO chair, you tell yourself,
Speaker 2: I'm going to build a winning team. We're going to
Speaker 2: dominate this market. We're going to be the best. But
Speaker 2: the reality is there are no guarantees. None. Leadership isn't
Speaker 2: a scripted movie with a guaranteed happy ending. It's unpredictable,
Speaker 2: it's messy, it's full of setbacks, and just like football,
Speaker 2: the outcome depends on variables you can't always control. Injuries happen,
Speaker 2: whether shifts, a bad bounce off the ball changes the
Speaker 2: whole game, in leadership, your top performer quits, a new
Speaker 2: competitor opens up across town, or the economy takes a dive,
Speaker 2: and suddenly your winning season looks different than you thought.
Speaker 2: So what separates the teams that actually win? What separates
Speaker 2: the leaders that actually make it? It isn't just talent,
Speaker 2: It isn't just money, It isn't even strategy. It's buy in.
Speaker 2: The teams that win the Super Bowl are the ones
Speaker 2: where every single player, coach, trainer, and staff member buys
Speaker 2: into the culture. They believe in it, they live it,
Speaker 2: and they execute it every day. That's the real challenge
Speaker 2: of leadership. You can't guarantee the outcome, but you can
Speaker 2: influence the culture. You can create an environment where people
Speaker 2: believe in the mission so strongly that they'll go the
Speaker 2: extra mile even when it's inconvenient. You can build a
Speaker 2: team where trust and accountability run so deep that they
Speaker 2: push each other to a higher standard every single day.
Speaker 2: Being a paramedic taught me how to treat patients. Being
Speaker 2: a chief taught me how to build people. And here's
Speaker 2: the lesson I want you to walk away with today.
Speaker 2: Leadership doesn't come with guarantees, but it does come with opportunities,
Speaker 2: opportunities to set the tone, to inspire buy in, and
Speaker 2: to create something worth believing in. Being a paramedic was
Speaker 2: easy in a sense that it was about one patient
Speaker 2: at a time. Being the chief or being a leader
Speaker 2: is about caring for dozens of people all at once
Speaker 2: every day. So if someone asks you what do you
Speaker 2: enjoy more, remember this. Your answer doesn't have to be
Speaker 2: about ease or certainty. It should be about the challenge
Speaker 2: because leadership isn't about guaranteeing success. It's about doing everything
Speaker 2: in your power to make your team believe that having
Speaker 2: a winning season is possible. This has been the seven
Speaker 2: Minute Leadership Podcast, and I thank you for listening.
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