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Speaker 1: This is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host
Speaker 1: Paul Fellavaledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode four ninety seven. I developed this podcast in
Speaker 2: a very intentional way, based off my seven minute leadership philosophy.
Speaker 2: From the very beginning, I knew I didn't want to
Speaker 2: create a thirty minute content series, and I certainly didn't
Speaker 2: want to compete with those sixty or ninety minute long
Speaker 2: episodes that you find out there. Why Because leaders are busy.
Speaker 2: Your schedule is already jammed with meetings, deadlines, and the
Speaker 2: unexpected fires that always pop up. The last thing you
Speaker 2: need is me talking in your ear for half an hour.
Speaker 2: So I built this podcast my way. The seven minute
Speaker 2: Leadership Podcast was designed to be someone's coffee break or
Speaker 2: cigarette break, or maybe it's what you listen to while
Speaker 2: you're driving to work. Seven minutes or less, that's all
Speaker 2: I need. Seven minutes of powerful leadership lessons that you
Speaker 2: can take and immediately apply to your day. Think about
Speaker 2: it for a second. If you take a coffee break,
Speaker 2: you don't need someone to give you a full course meal.
Speaker 2: You just need a quick jolt of energy, something small
Speaker 2: that refreshes you and gets you moving again. Leadership lessons
Speaker 2: should be the same. I want this podcast to give
Speaker 2: you that jolt, a spark, something that makes you say
Speaker 2: I needed that today. And when you think about it,
Speaker 2: some of the most powerful leadership lessons in history weren't
Speaker 2: given in long speeches. They were short, they were clear,
Speaker 2: they were direct. Lincoln's Gettysburg address barely two minutes long.
Speaker 2: Mlk's I Have a Dream wasn't an all day seminar.
Speaker 2: These were concise, sharp, and unforgettable. And that's the exact
Speaker 2: philosophy behind this show. I don't want you to sit
Speaker 2: through bs filler or all the corporate buzzwords. I want
Speaker 2: you to get the leadership truth, raw and real in
Speaker 2: a way that you can digest quickly and carry with
Speaker 2: you the rest of your day. So now, let's take
Speaker 2: this lesson and apply it to you as a leader,
Speaker 2: because it's not just about how I built this podcast,
Speaker 2: it's also about how you should think about your leadership communication.
Speaker 2: We as leaders sometimes talk too much, Meetings go on
Speaker 2: longer than they should, presentations drag emails turn into novels,
Speaker 2: and what happens The message gets lost, people stop listening.
Speaker 2: But when you cut it down, when you get rid
Speaker 2: of the noise and get straight to the point, people remember,
Speaker 2: they lean in, they walk away with the message still
Speaker 2: ringing in their head. So my challenge to you today
Speaker 2: is this, look at the way that you communicate with
Speaker 2: your team. Are you over explaining? Are you holding meetings
Speaker 2: that could be done in half the time? Are your
Speaker 2: messages buried in paragraphs when they could be captured in
Speaker 2: a single sentence. Leadership communication should be like this podcast, short,
Speaker 2: sharp and effective, seven minutes or less. Say what you
Speaker 2: need to say, make sure it hits, and then move on.
Speaker 2: So here's the truth. The greatest impact isn't in how
Speaker 2: long you talk, it's in how clearly you communicate. So
Speaker 2: the next time you go into a meeting, or write
Speaker 2: an email or prepare a speech, ask yourself, how can
Speaker 2: I say this in half the time? How can I
Speaker 2: cut out the noise and still get the message across.
Speaker 2: That's the mark of a great leader. Just seven minutes
Speaker 2: or less. That's my belief, and that's all it takes.
Speaker 2: This has been the seven minute Leadership Podcast, and I
Speaker 2: thank you for listening.
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