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 Fellavoldo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the Seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode six eighty seven. I want you to stop
Speaker 2: what you're doing for a second and really hear this.
Speaker 2: Every single day you walk into your workplace, you are
Speaker 2: not just doing a job. You are shaping lives. You
Speaker 2: are setting the tone for someone's entire day, maybe their
Speaker 2: entire career, maybe even their entire belief system about what
Speaker 2: leadership is supposed to look like. Here's the part you
Speaker 2: might miss. You will never fully see the impact you make.
Speaker 2: You won't get a report at the end of the
Speaker 2: week that says, hey, that conversation you had on Tuesday
Speaker 2: at ten fourteen am changed someone's confidence forever. You won't
Speaker 2: get a notification that says that moment where you chose
Speaker 2: patience instead of frustration kept someone from quitting. You don't
Speaker 2: get those alerts, but they are happening right now every
Speaker 2: single day. Leadership is not loud. Most of the time,
Speaker 2: it is quiet. It is in the way you respond
Speaker 2: when things go wrong. It's in the way you look
Speaker 2: at someone when they're struggling. It's in whether you choose
Speaker 2: to build someone up or break them down. And here's
Speaker 2: where I want to push you a little bit today,
Speaker 2: because this is where great leaders separate themselves from average ones.
Speaker 2: Average leaders think their job is to manage tasks. Great
Speaker 2: leaders understand their job is to shape people. You are
Speaker 2: not running a schedule. You are not running a report.
Speaker 2: You are not running a meeting. You are running influence.
Speaker 2: You are running energy. You are running belief. Every person
Speaker 2: on your team is watching you, not when you are
Speaker 2: at your best. They are watching you when you're tired.
Speaker 2: They're watching you when you're frustrated. They're watching you when
Speaker 2: things are not going your way. That is when leadership
Speaker 2: becomes real. That is when the mask comes off. That
Speaker 2: is when your team decides is this someone I want
Speaker 2: to follow or is this someone I have to tolerate.
Speaker 2: So let me take you into a moment. You walk
Speaker 2: into the room. The energy is low, people are dragging,
Speaker 2: morale is not where it should be. You have two choices.
Speaker 2: You can match that energy or you can change it.
Speaker 2: That is leadership. That is the moment, not the big speech,
Speaker 2: not the annual meeting, not the perfectly planned strategy session.
Speaker 2: It is that moment right there where you decide, I'm
Speaker 2: going to raise the standard. Because here's the truth. Your
Speaker 2: team will rarely rise above your energy level, discipline, and belief.
Speaker 2: If you show up flat, they go lower. If you
Speaker 2: show up sharp, they come up. If you show up focused,
Speaker 2: they lock in. If you show up like it matters,
Speaker 2: they start to believe it matters. Leadership is contagious, so
Speaker 2: is apathy, and every single day you're spreading one of
Speaker 2: the two. Now let's take it even deeper. There is
Speaker 2: someone on your team right now who is on the edge.
Speaker 2: You may not even know it. They are questioning themselves,
Speaker 2: they are their role, They are questioning if they even
Speaker 2: belong there. And you might be one conversation away from
Speaker 2: changing that one. That's it. One moment of recognition, one
Speaker 2: moment of belief, one moment where you say, I see you,
Speaker 2: you matter, keep going, and that person might carry that
Speaker 2: moment for years. That is the weight of leadership. That
Speaker 2: is the privilege of leadership. And that is why this
Speaker 2: matters so much, because you don't get to turn leadership
Speaker 2: on and off. Once you accept the role. You are
Speaker 2: always on stage, not in the fake way, in a
Speaker 2: real way. People are learning from you, whether you realize
Speaker 2: it or not. So the question becomes what are you teaching?
Speaker 2: Are you teaching resilience or are you teaching excuses? Are
Speaker 2: you teaching accountability or or are you teaching blame? Are
Speaker 2: you teaching effort or are you teaching minimum standards? Because
Speaker 2: your team is watching, and more importantly, they are copying.
Speaker 2: They are becoming what you consistently show them. Now, let
Speaker 2: me bring this home for you. Think about a leader
Speaker 2: you had in your life that made an impact on you. You
Speaker 2: can picture them right now, you can hear their voice,
Speaker 2: you can remember how they made you feel. And I
Speaker 2: guarantee you it wasn't because of a spreadsheet they created.
Speaker 2: It wasn't because of a policy they wrote. It was
Speaker 2: because of how they showed up. It was because of
Speaker 2: how they treated you. It was because of how they
Speaker 2: made you believe in yourself. That is your opportunity. Now,
Speaker 2: that is your responsibility. Now you are that person for
Speaker 2: someone else right now, and you don't even realize how
Speaker 2: big that is. This is not about being perfect. This
Speaker 2: is about being intensional. Seven minutes a day, seven focused
Speaker 2: minutes where you say I'm going to lead on purpose today,
Speaker 2: seven minutes where you check your attitude, seven minutes where
Speaker 2: you decide how you're going to show up, seven minutes
Speaker 2: where you commit to being the leader your team deserves.
Speaker 2: Because small moments, repeated daily, create massive impact over time.
Speaker 2: That is how culture is built. That is how trust
Speaker 2: is built. That is how leaders are made, not overnight,
Speaker 2: not in a seminar, in the day to day, in
Speaker 2: the grind, in the moments no one is clapping for.
Speaker 2: And here's the part I want you to carry with
Speaker 2: you when this episode ends. You matter more than you think.
Speaker 2: Your words matter, your tone matters, your presence matters, and
Speaker 2: your leadership, whether you realize it or not, is shaping
Speaker 2: people in ways you may never fully see. So today,
Speaker 2: when you walk into your workplace, I want you to
Speaker 2: walk in with purpose. I want you to walk in
Speaker 2: like it matters, because it does more than you know.
Speaker 2: And as you go through your day, remember this. Someone
Speaker 2: is watching you to decide what leadership looks like. Make
Speaker 2: sure they see something worth following, make sure they feel
Speaker 2: something worth remembering. Make sure they experience leadership that changes
Speaker 2: them for the better, because that is the legacy of
Speaker 2: a real leader, not what you accomplished, but who you
Speaker 2: built along the way. This has been the seven minute
Speaker 2: Leadership podcast, and I thank you for listening.
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