Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and golajiving. This
Speaker 1: is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul Fellovledo.
Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to this seven minute leadership podcast.
Speaker 1: It's episode five point fifty one. Today we're diving into
Speaker 1: something seasonal, something memorable, and something you can use to
Speaker 1: reset your leadership heading into a new year. I'm calling
Speaker 1: this one the twelve Days of Leadership. Think of this
Speaker 1: as a leadership countdown that becomes a daily challenge. Each
Speaker 1: day stacks on top of the last one, and by
Speaker 1: day twelve you feel like a leader who rebuilt their
Speaker 1: entire operating system. You can turn this into a team challenge,
Speaker 1: a personal challenge, a department wide challenge, lenge, and even
Speaker 1: use it to replace the lyrics in the song. So
Speaker 1: let's start with Day one one silent observation. Spend one
Speaker 1: full day watching your team without interrupting coaching or jumping in.
Speaker 1: Leaders forget that people act differently when the boss is talking.
Speaker 1: You find out a lot when you go quiet and
Speaker 1: let the room show you the truth. Day two two
Speaker 1: conversations you've been avoiding. Every leader has two conversations that
Speaker 1: they've been pushing off. Today is about clearing that backlog.
Speaker 1: Pick the two that matter most and handle them respectfully
Speaker 1: and directly. Leaders grow when they stop delaying the inevitable.
Speaker 1: Day three three genuine thank yous, not surface level appreciation.
Speaker 1: These are real thank yous that acknowledge effort, not outcomes.
Speaker 1: Recognize something specific about what they did. Remember that type
Speaker 1: of message for a long time. Day four four quick fixes.
Speaker 1: Look around your workspace, your fleet, systems, or schedule and
Speaker 1: clean up four things that have been annoying everyone. Loose ends,
Speaker 1: drain morale. Leaders can remove friction in minutes when they
Speaker 1: focus on it. Day five five minutes of stillness. These
Speaker 1: five minutes reset your brain. No noise, no phone, no distraction.
Speaker 1: Leaders make better decisions when they're not carrying mental clutter.
Speaker 1: This becomes your default reset button for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. Day six six honest check ins. Walk up
Speaker 1: to six people and ask one simple question, how are
Speaker 1: things going for you here? And then listen. You get
Speaker 1: a temperature reading of the culture faster than any survey.
Speaker 1: Day seven seven opportunities to improve tomorrow. Your job today
Speaker 1: is to identify seven things that, if improved would make
Speaker 1: your team's day easier. You don't need to fix them today,
Speaker 1: you only need to recognize them. Awareness changes your leadership
Speaker 1: posture more than you realize. Day eight eight stretches of
Speaker 1: your comfort zone. Pick eight small things that push you.
Speaker 1: Maybe it is holding a tougher line, speaking up sooner,
Speaker 1: delegating better, or asking for feedback. Leadership is a contact
Speaker 1: sport and comfort zone shrink careers. Day nine nine wins
Speaker 1: you normally overlook. Write down nine wins that your team
Speaker 1: achieved recently. Leaders often focus on the fires they had
Speaker 1: to put out. Morale will rise when you spot the
Speaker 1: quiet victories that truly mattered. Ten percent more energy. Decide
Speaker 1: that today you're going to bring ten percent more energy
Speaker 1: to every interaction. Teams mirror the tone of their leader.
Speaker 1: Leaders who bring energy bring momentum. Day eleven eleven messages
Speaker 1: of clarity. Leaders underestimate how often employees walk away confused.
Speaker 1: Find eleven moments today where you can add clarity, expectations, timeliness, decisions, directions,
Speaker 1: all of it. Clarity solves more problems than urgency ever will.
Speaker 1: In Day twelve, twelve minutes of reflection, Set a timer
Speaker 1: and write what you learned. Across these twelve days. Reflection
Speaker 1: is the difference between going through leadership and growing through leadership.
Speaker 1: The best leaders I know schedule reflection before they schedule action.
Speaker 1: Now here's the twist. If you do this challenge with
Speaker 1: your team, the impact multiplies. People feel, seen, workflows titan,
Speaker 1: the culture starts to settle into place. You become a
Speaker 1: leader who leads with intention instead of reaction. Teams fall
Speaker 1: apart when leaders react, teams rise when leaders prepare. The
Speaker 1: twelve Days of leadership is how you prepare yourself to
Speaker 1: go into a new year already winning. It's simple, it's tactical,
Speaker 1: and I think it works every time. Start this today,
Speaker 1: do it with your team, make it a yearly tradition,
Speaker 1: and with that, let's land this episode back at the
Speaker 1: North Pole. When you stack these twelve days on top
Speaker 1: of each other, you rebuild your leadership foundation one day
Speaker 1: at a time. If you finish this challenge, you will
Speaker 1: feel sharp, clearer, and more aligned than you've been all
Speaker 1: year long. And I know I've mentioned this before, but
Speaker 1: if YouTube is your platform, jump on over to YouTube
Speaker 1: and check out my recently rebranded seven Minute Leadership channel.
Speaker 1: The link is in the description of the show and
Speaker 1: also on my website. I'm constantly adding leadership short videos,
Speaker 1: some select full length episodes of this podcast, and it
Speaker 1: will be the future home to video interviews as well.
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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