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Speaker 1: This is the Seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host
Speaker 1: Paul Fellavaledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the Seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode six ninety five. Today we're talking about something
Speaker 2: every leader says they want, but very few actually build.
Speaker 2: A team that lasts. Not a team that survives a
Speaker 2: busy season, not a team that looks good on paper,
Speaker 2: not a team that shows up when things are easy.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about a team that stays, performs, adapts, and
Speaker 2: grows over years, not months. And let me tell you
Speaker 2: where most leaders get this wrong. They think team longevity
Speaker 2: is about hiring the right people, and it's not hiring matters.
Speaker 2: But hiring is the entry point. Retention is the real
Speaker 2: leadership test, and retention has nothing to do with pizza parties,
Speaker 2: casual fridays, or whatever corporate buzzwords are floating around this week.
Speaker 2: A team that lasts is built on something much deeper.
Speaker 2: It's built on consistency. And here's what I mean. Your
Speaker 2: team is watching you every day, not during your big speeches,
Speaker 2: not during your annual meetings, but in the small moments,
Speaker 2: how you respond when things go wrong, how you treat
Speaker 2: the lowest performer, how you react when someone challenges you.
Speaker 2: That is where your team decides whether they are staying
Speaker 2: or leaving, because people don't stay for systems. They stay
Speaker 2: for stability, and stability comes from predictable leadership behavior. If
Speaker 2: your team doesn't know which version of you is showing
Speaker 2: up today, they are already half way out the door.
Speaker 2: And now let's go one layer deeper. If you want
Speaker 2: to build a team that lasts, you need to stop
Speaker 2: building around talent and start building around standards. Talent can
Speaker 2: impress you, standards will protect you. I've seen incredibly talented
Speaker 2: teams fall apart because the standards were loose, inconsistent, or
Speaker 2: selectively enforced. And I've seen average teams outperform everyone because
Speaker 2: the expectations were clear and non negotiable. Your team doesn't
Speaker 2: need you to be perfect. They need you to be
Speaker 2: consistent with what you allow and what you shut down.
Speaker 2: Because every time you ignore something, you're teaching your team
Speaker 2: that it's acceptable, and over time, that becomes your culture.
Speaker 2: Now here's something most leaders don't think about. People don't
Speaker 2: leave bad days, They leave patterns. One bad shift, one
Speaker 2: tough conversation, one rough week. That's not what drives people out.
Speaker 2: It's when they start seeing the same issue repeat over
Speaker 2: and over with no correction. That's when trust starts to break.
Speaker 2: That's when people start looking elsewhere. So if you want
Speaker 2: your team to last, your job is not to eliminate problems.
Speaker 2: Your job is to eliminate repeated problems, fix things once,
Speaker 2: and fix them right. That's leadership. Now let's talk about
Speaker 2: something that will hit a little harder. You cannot build
Speaker 2: a lasting team if you are the center of everything,
Speaker 2: if every decision runs through you, if every solution depends
Speaker 2: on you, If your team freezes when you're not there,
Speaker 2: you don't have a team. You have dependency, and dependency
Speaker 2: does not last. A real team is built when people
Speaker 2: can operate without you, not because they don't need you,
Speaker 2: but because you train them well enough to think, decide
Speaker 2: and act. That's uncomfortable for a lot of leaders because
Speaker 2: it feels like losing control, and it's not. It's building strength. Again,
Speaker 2: think about aviation for a second. If a pilot has
Speaker 2: to manually correct every small issue mid flight, something is wrong.
Speaker 2: The systems, the training and the preparation should carry most
Speaker 2: of the load. Leadership is no different. If you're constantly firefighting,
Speaker 2: your team is not built to last. You're holding it
Speaker 2: together and eventually that breaks. And now here's another piece
Speaker 2: most people miss. If you want your team to last,
Speaker 2: they need to see a future with you, not a title,
Speaker 2: not a promise, a path. People don't stay where they
Speaker 2: feel stuck. They stay where they feel movement. And movement
Speaker 2: doesn't mean promotions for everyone. It means growth, It means
Speaker 2: guild development, It means responsibility, It means trust. If your
Speaker 2: people feel like they are the same today as they
Speaker 2: were a year ago, they are already checking out mentally.
Speaker 2: Your job is to make sure they are not standing still.
Speaker 2: And now let me give you something practical. If you
Speaker 2: want to build a team that lasts, start doing this immediately.
Speaker 2: Number one. Audit your consistency. Ask yourself, does my team
Speaker 2: know exactly what I expect every single day? If the
Speaker 2: answer is no, fix that. Number two. Identify one repeated
Speaker 2: problem in your organization and eliminate it this week, not
Speaker 2: next month. This week. Show your team that patterns get broken.
Speaker 2: Number three, develop one person intentionally Pick someone on your
Speaker 2: team and invest in them on purpose, not randomly, not occasionally,
Speaker 2: but on purpose, because teams last when leaders build other leaders,
Speaker 2: not followers. And finally, check your ego at the door,
Speaker 2: because this is the part nobody likes to hear. If
Speaker 2: your team isn't lasting, the problem is not the generation,
Speaker 2: the job market, or the workload. It's leadership. And that's
Speaker 2: not an attack. That's control. Because you can fix leadership,
Speaker 2: you can't control everything else. So here's the takeaway from
Speaker 2: this episode. A team that lasts is not built on luck, talent,
Speaker 2: or perks. It's built on consistency, standards, trust, and growth.
Speaker 2: Show up the same way every day, set clear expectations
Speaker 2: and hold them. Fix problems once, not repeatedly. Build people
Speaker 2: who can operate without you, and give your team a
Speaker 2: reason to see a future where they are. Do that
Speaker 2: and you won't have to chase retention. Your team will
Speaker 2: choose to stay. This has been the seven minute Leadership
Speaker 2: podcast and I thank you for listening.
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