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<v Speaker 1>Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of

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<v Speaker 1>performance through strong human relations, team building, and golajiving. This

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<v Speaker 1>is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul Fellovledo.

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<v Speaker 1>Hello everyone, and welcome to this seven minute leadership podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>It's episode five point fifty one. Today we're diving into

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<v Speaker 1>something seasonal, something memorable, and something you can use to

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<v Speaker 1>reset your leadership heading into a new year. I'm calling

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<v Speaker 1>this one the twelve Days of Leadership. Think of this

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<v Speaker 1>as a leadership countdown that becomes a daily challenge. Each

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<v Speaker 1>day stacks on top of the last one, and by

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<v Speaker 1>day twelve you feel like a leader who rebuilt their

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<v Speaker 1>entire operating system. You can turn this into a team challenge,

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<v Speaker 1>a personal challenge, a department wide challenge, lenge, and even

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<v Speaker 1>use it to replace the lyrics in the song. So

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<v Speaker 1>let's start with Day one one silent observation. Spend one

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<v Speaker 1>full day watching your team without interrupting coaching or jumping in.

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<v Speaker 1>Leaders forget that people act differently when the boss is talking.

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<v Speaker 1>You find out a lot when you go quiet and

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<v Speaker 1>let the room show you the truth. Day two two

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<v Speaker 1>conversations you've been avoiding. Every leader has two conversations that

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<v Speaker 1>they've been pushing off. Today is about clearing that backlog.

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<v Speaker 1>Pick the two that matter most and handle them respectfully

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<v Speaker 1>and directly. Leaders grow when they stop delaying the inevitable.

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<v Speaker 1>Day three three genuine thank yous, not surface level appreciation.

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<v Speaker 1>These are real thank yous that acknowledge effort, not outcomes.

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<v Speaker 1>Recognize something specific about what they did. Remember that type

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<v Speaker 1>of message for a long time. Day four four quick fixes.

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<v Speaker 1>Look around your workspace, your fleet, systems, or schedule and

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<v Speaker 1>clean up four things that have been annoying everyone. Loose ends,

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<v Speaker 1>drain morale. Leaders can remove friction in minutes when they

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<v Speaker 1>focus on it. Day five five minutes of stillness. These

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<v Speaker 1>five minutes reset your brain. No noise, no phone, no distraction.

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<v Speaker 1>Leaders make better decisions when they're not carrying mental clutter.

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<v Speaker 1>This becomes your default reset button for the rest of

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<v Speaker 1>the year. Day six six honest check ins. Walk up

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<v Speaker 1>to six people and ask one simple question, how are

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<v Speaker 1>things going for you here? And then listen. You get

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<v Speaker 1>a temperature reading of the culture faster than any survey.

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<v Speaker 1>Day seven seven opportunities to improve tomorrow. Your job today

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<v Speaker 1>is to identify seven things that, if improved would make

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<v Speaker 1>your team's day easier. You don't need to fix them today,

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<v Speaker 1>you only need to recognize them. Awareness changes your leadership

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<v Speaker 1>posture more than you realize. Day eight eight stretches of

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<v Speaker 1>your comfort zone. Pick eight small things that push you.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe it is holding a tougher line, speaking up sooner,

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<v Speaker 1>delegating better, or asking for feedback. Leadership is a contact

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<v Speaker 1>sport and comfort zone shrink careers. Day nine nine wins

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<v Speaker 1>you normally overlook. Write down nine wins that your team

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<v Speaker 1>achieved recently. Leaders often focus on the fires they had

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<v Speaker 1>to put out. Morale will rise when you spot the

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<v Speaker 1>quiet victories that truly mattered. Ten percent more energy. Decide

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<v Speaker 1>that today you're going to bring ten percent more energy

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<v Speaker 1>to every interaction. Teams mirror the tone of their leader.

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<v Speaker 1>Leaders who bring energy bring momentum. Day eleven eleven messages

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<v Speaker 1>of clarity. Leaders underestimate how often employees walk away confused.

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<v Speaker 1>Find eleven moments today where you can add clarity, expectations, timeliness, decisions, directions,

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<v Speaker 1>all of it. Clarity solves more problems than urgency ever will.

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<v Speaker 1>In Day twelve, twelve minutes of reflection, Set a timer

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<v Speaker 1>and write what you learned. Across these twelve days. Reflection

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<v Speaker 1>is the difference between going through leadership and growing through leadership.

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<v Speaker 1>The best leaders I know schedule reflection before they schedule action.

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<v Speaker 1>Now here's the twist. If you do this challenge with

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<v Speaker 1>your team, the impact multiplies. People feel, seen, workflows titan,

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<v Speaker 1>the culture starts to settle into place. You become a

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<v Speaker 1>leader who leads with intention instead of reaction. Teams fall

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<v Speaker 1>apart when leaders react, teams rise when leaders prepare. The

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<v Speaker 1>twelve Days of leadership is how you prepare yourself to

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<v Speaker 1>go into a new year already winning. It's simple, it's tactical,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think it works every time. Start this today,

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<v Speaker 1>do it with your team, make it a yearly tradition,

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<v Speaker 1>and with that, let's land this episode back at the

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<v Speaker 1>North Pole. When you stack these twelve days on top

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<v Speaker 1>of each other, you rebuild your leadership foundation one day

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<v Speaker 1>at a time. If you finish this challenge, you will

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<v Speaker 1>feel sharp, clearer, and more aligned than you've been all

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<v Speaker 1>year long. And I know I've mentioned this before, but

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<v Speaker 1>if YouTube is your platform, jump on over to YouTube

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<v Speaker 1>and check out my recently rebranded seven Minute Leadership channel.

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<v Speaker 1>The link is in the description of the show and

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<v Speaker 1>also on my website. I'm constantly adding leadership short videos,

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<v Speaker 1>some select full length episodes of this podcast, and it

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<v Speaker 1>will be the future home to video interviews as well.

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<v Speaker 1>This has been the seven minute leadership podcast and I

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<v Speaker 1>thank you for listening. For more Paul fell of Alito Podcasts,

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<v Speaker 1>visit paulfellowalito dot com.