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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 goalagiving. This

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

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<v Speaker 2>Hello everyone, and welcome to this seven minute leadership podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>It's episode four eighty six. I keep telling everyone there

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<v Speaker 2>are leadership lessons everywhere you look in life. You don't

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<v Speaker 2>need to open a textbook or go sit through an

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<v Speaker 2>all day seminar to learn how to be a better leader.

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<v Speaker 2>Leadership is all around us, tucked inside the little details

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<v Speaker 2>of everyday life if we're paying attention, and I'll give

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<v Speaker 2>you two examples. Every time I stay at a Marriott hotel,

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<v Speaker 2>I notice that they put a notepad on the side

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<v Speaker 2>of the bed, and on that notepad there's always a

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<v Speaker 2>motivational quote or some kind of saying. Sometimes it's about service,

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes it's about life. Sometimes it's about growth. But every

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<v Speaker 2>time I see it, I think someone at Marriott cared

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<v Speaker 2>enough about their guests to put a positive message in

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<v Speaker 2>the exact spot where a traveler might be tired, stressed,

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<v Speaker 2>or far from home. That's a leadership lesson. Meeting people

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<v Speaker 2>write where they are in giving them something that lifts

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<v Speaker 2>them up. Now here's the one that hit me the

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<v Speaker 2>other morning that made me want to write this episode.

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<v Speaker 2>I was having breakfast. I peeled back the lid of

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<v Speaker 2>my overnight oats and right there, printed on the underside

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<v Speaker 2>of the label, it said, the way to be great

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<v Speaker 2>is to be good repeatedly. So let's pause on that,

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<v Speaker 2>because that one sentence is absolute leadership gold. So many

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<v Speaker 2>people think greatness is about one big performance, one big speech,

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<v Speaker 2>one big moment, But the truth is greatness is boring.

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<v Speaker 2>It's consistency. It's showing up every day doing the right thing,

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<v Speaker 2>treating people fairly, making tough decisions when you'd rather look

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<v Speaker 2>the other way, in keeping standards high when nobody's watching.

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<v Speaker 2>Think about athletes for a minute. We don't remember the

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<v Speaker 2>single workout. We remember the years of training that built

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<v Speaker 2>the strength for that one championship game. And then if

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<v Speaker 2>you think about musicians, they don't become great just because

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<v Speaker 2>of one concert. They become great rate because of the

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<v Speaker 2>thousands of hours they put in when no one was

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<v Speaker 2>there to clap for them. And leadership works the same way.

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<v Speaker 2>If you want to be great, you don't need fireworks,

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<v Speaker 2>You need repetition. You need to be good over and over,

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<v Speaker 2>day after day, and not just when it's easy. You

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<v Speaker 2>need to be good when you're tired. You need to

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<v Speaker 2>be good when you're frustrated. You need to be good

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<v Speaker 2>when people are testing your patients, because that's going to

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<v Speaker 2>happen all the time. And here's the real thing. People

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<v Speaker 2>don't follow what you say one time, They follow what

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<v Speaker 2>they see you do consistently. If you're kind one day

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<v Speaker 2>in short tempered the next, your team learns you're unpredictable.

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<v Speaker 2>If you enforce standards sometimes and let them slide other times,

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<v Speaker 2>people learn you don't really mean what you say. But

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<v Speaker 2>if you're steady, if you're reliable, if you're consistently good,

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<v Speaker 2>that's when trust builds. And trust is the foundation of leadership.

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<v Speaker 2>So let's go back to the oat container. The way

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<v Speaker 2>to be great is to be good repeatedly. What a

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<v Speaker 2>simple way to describe the blueprint for leadership. You don't

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<v Speaker 2>need to reinvent yourself every week. You don't need to

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<v Speaker 2>be flashy, you don't need to come up with something

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<v Speaker 2>new every day just to impress people. What your people

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<v Speaker 2>really want is to know what they can expect from you.

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<v Speaker 2>And the only way they learn that is through repetition.

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<v Speaker 2>So here's the action step I'll leave you with. I

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<v Speaker 2>want you to ask yourself today, what's the one thing

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<v Speaker 2>I can do consistently, starting right now, that will make

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<v Speaker 2>me a better leader in the eyes of my team.

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<v Speaker 2>It might be something as small as saying good morning

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<v Speaker 2>to everyone. It might be giving feedback in the moment

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<v Speaker 2>instead of waiting until the annual review. It might be

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<v Speaker 2>listening first before you speak. But whatever it is, just

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<v Speaker 2>do it repeatedly. Let your people know that you're dependable.

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<v Speaker 2>So great leadership isn't about one motivational speech, or one

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<v Speaker 2>staff meeting or one big win. Great leadership is built

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<v Speaker 2>in the repetition of good actions every day. So the

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<v Speaker 2>next time you're in a hotel, at a restaurant, or

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<v Speaker 2>even peeling back the lid on your breakfast, keep your

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<v Speaker 2>eyes open. Leadership lessons are everywhere. The world is teaching

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<v Speaker 2>us all the time if we're willing to see it.

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<v Speaker 2>This has been the seven minute Leadership Podcast, and I

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<v Speaker 2>thank you for listening.

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<v Speaker 1>For more Paul fell of Alito Podcasts, visit Paulfellovalito dot com.