Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and goalagiving. This
Speaker 1: is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul Fellavaledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to this seven minute leadership podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode four eighty six. I keep telling everyone there
Speaker 2: are leadership lessons everywhere you look in life. You don't
Speaker 2: need to open a textbook or go sit through an
Speaker 2: all day seminar to learn how to be a better leader.
Speaker 2: Leadership is all around us, tucked inside the little details
Speaker 2: of everyday life if we're paying attention, and I'll give
Speaker 2: you two examples. Every time I stay at a Marriott hotel,
Speaker 2: I notice that they put a notepad on the side
Speaker 2: of the bed, and on that notepad there's always a
Speaker 2: motivational quote or some kind of saying. Sometimes it's about service,
Speaker 2: sometimes it's about life. Sometimes it's about growth. But every
Speaker 2: time I see it, I think someone at Marriott cared
Speaker 2: enough about their guests to put a positive message in
Speaker 2: the exact spot where a traveler might be tired, stressed,
Speaker 2: or far from home. That's a leadership lesson. Meeting people
Speaker 2: write where they are in giving them something that lifts
Speaker 2: them up. Now here's the one that hit me the
Speaker 2: other morning that made me want to write this episode.
Speaker 2: I was having breakfast. I peeled back the lid of
Speaker 2: my overnight oats and right there, printed on the underside
Speaker 2: of the label, it said, the way to be great
Speaker 2: is to be good repeatedly. So let's pause on that,
Speaker 2: because that one sentence is absolute leadership gold. So many
Speaker 2: people think greatness is about one big performance, one big speech,
Speaker 2: one big moment, But the truth is greatness is boring.
Speaker 2: It's consistency. It's showing up every day doing the right thing,
Speaker 2: treating people fairly, making tough decisions when you'd rather look
Speaker 2: the other way, in keeping standards high when nobody's watching.
Speaker 2: Think about athletes for a minute. We don't remember the
Speaker 2: single workout. We remember the years of training that built
Speaker 2: the strength for that one championship game. And then if
Speaker 2: you think about musicians, they don't become great just because
Speaker 2: of one concert. They become great rate because of the
Speaker 2: thousands of hours they put in when no one was
Speaker 2: there to clap for them. And leadership works the same way.
Speaker 2: If you want to be great, you don't need fireworks,
Speaker 2: You need repetition. You need to be good over and over,
Speaker 2: day after day, and not just when it's easy. You
Speaker 2: need to be good when you're tired. You need to
Speaker 2: be good when you're frustrated. You need to be good
Speaker 2: when people are testing your patients, because that's going to
Speaker 2: happen all the time. And here's the real thing. People
Speaker 2: don't follow what you say one time, They follow what
Speaker 2: they see you do consistently. If you're kind one day
Speaker 2: in short tempered the next, your team learns you're unpredictable.
Speaker 2: If you enforce standards sometimes and let them slide other times,
Speaker 2: people learn you don't really mean what you say. But
Speaker 2: if you're steady, if you're reliable, if you're consistently good,
Speaker 2: that's when trust builds. And trust is the foundation of leadership.
Speaker 2: So let's go back to the oat container. The way
Speaker 2: to be great is to be good repeatedly. What a
Speaker 2: simple way to describe the blueprint for leadership. You don't
Speaker 2: need to reinvent yourself every week. You don't need to
Speaker 2: be flashy, you don't need to come up with something
Speaker 2: new every day just to impress people. What your people
Speaker 2: really want is to know what they can expect from you.
Speaker 2: And the only way they learn that is through repetition.
Speaker 2: So here's the action step I'll leave you with. I
Speaker 2: want you to ask yourself today, what's the one thing
Speaker 2: I can do consistently, starting right now, that will make
Speaker 2: me a better leader in the eyes of my team.
Speaker 2: It might be something as small as saying good morning
Speaker 2: to everyone. It might be giving feedback in the moment
Speaker 2: instead of waiting until the annual review. It might be
Speaker 2: listening first before you speak. But whatever it is, just
Speaker 2: do it repeatedly. Let your people know that you're dependable.
Speaker 2: So great leadership isn't about one motivational speech, or one
Speaker 2: staff meeting or one big win. Great leadership is built
Speaker 2: in the repetition of good actions every day. So the
Speaker 2: next time you're in a hotel, at a restaurant, or
Speaker 2: even peeling back the lid on your breakfast, keep your
Speaker 2: eyes open. Leadership lessons are everywhere. The world is teaching
Speaker 2: us all the time if we're willing to see it.
Speaker 2: This has been the seven minute Leadership Podcast, and I
Speaker 2: thank you for listening.
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