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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 golajiving. This

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

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<v Speaker 1>fella Aledo.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>It's episode seven thirty nine. Today I want to talk

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<v Speaker 2>about something fun. Leadership tricks, not hacks, not shortcuts, not

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<v Speaker 2>corporate buzzwords, real little moves that change how people respond

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<v Speaker 2>to you. The problem with most leadership advice is it

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<v Speaker 2>sounds great in a keynote and then disappears by Tuesday morning.

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<v Speaker 2>So today I want to give you five leadership tricks

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<v Speaker 2>that I think you'll actually use. Some of these are strange,

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<v Speaker 2>some feel almost too simple, but they work because they

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<v Speaker 2>with human behavior in ways most leaders never notice. So

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<v Speaker 2>the first one is leadership trick number one. Arrive early

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<v Speaker 2>and do one tiny task nobody asked you to do.

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<v Speaker 2>Not emails, not checking your calendar, Walk around and quietly

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<v Speaker 2>improve something. Straighten chairs, refill paper, wipe the coffee station,

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<v Speaker 2>pick up trash, fix the whiteboard markers, do something that

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<v Speaker 2>nobody assigned. Why Because leaders dramatically underestimate symbolic actions. People

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<v Speaker 2>rarely remember your speech. They remember seeing the chief carrying boxes,

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<v Speaker 2>They remember seeing the CEO move tables. They remember seeing

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<v Speaker 2>you do work beneath your paygrade. When people see leaders

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<v Speaker 2>contribute without ceremony, they unconsciously lower their resistance to contributing themselves.

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<v Speaker 2>You set behavioral weather. Try this tomorrow. Do one visible

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<v Speaker 2>task before anyone arrives. Don't announce it, and just watch

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<v Speaker 2>what happens. Leadership trick number two. Answer the question behind

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<v Speaker 2>the question. Employees ask weird questions. Can I leave early?

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<v Speaker 2>Do I really have to do this training? Why are

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<v Speaker 2>we changing this? Most leaders answer the literal question the

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<v Speaker 2>better move answer the hidden question? Can I leave early?

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<v Speaker 2>The hidden question? Do you trust me? Do I need training?

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<v Speaker 2>The hidden question? Am I failing? Why are we changing?

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<v Speaker 2>The hidden question? Are you making my life harder? If

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<v Speaker 2>you only answer the words, people leave frustrated. If you

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<v Speaker 2>answer the concern underneath, people feel understood. Try saying, tell

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<v Speaker 2>me what's making you ask? That sentence opens doors. Leadership

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<v Speaker 2>becomes easier when you stop arguing with words and start

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<v Speaker 2>listening for motives. Leadership trick number three, create a two

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<v Speaker 2>sentence rule. When emotions go up, shorten leaders often make

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<v Speaker 2>situations worse because they over explain. So try this when

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<v Speaker 2>giving direction. Limit yourself to two sentences. Sentence one, what

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<v Speaker 2>is happening? Sentence two, what happens next? And I'll give

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<v Speaker 2>you the example. We had a scheduling issue this morning.

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<v Speaker 2>We're fixing coverage, and I'll update everyone at noon. That's it.

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<v Speaker 2>Notice what's missing? Defending, rambling, storytelling. People under stress don't

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<v Speaker 2>need a documentary, They need confidence. And this works in meetings.

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<v Speaker 2>This works in family life, This works in emergencies. People

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<v Speaker 2>follow clarity. Leadership trick number four rotate the spotlight weird

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<v Speaker 2>when your team succeeds, intentionally highlight someone unexpected, not always

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<v Speaker 2>your rock star and not always your favorite. Finds somebody

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<v Speaker 2>who usually gets overlooked. Maybe it's dispatch, maybe it's housekeeping,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe the quiet employee, maybe the new person. Then publicly

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<v Speaker 2>connect their action to the result. Yesterday worked because Sarah

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<v Speaker 2>noticed the problem before everyone else. This does something powerful.

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<v Speaker 2>It teaches everyone what matters. Recognition is one of the

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<v Speaker 2>strongest forms of organizational programming. People chase whatever gets noticed.

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<v Speaker 2>Most leaders accidentally create cultures without realizing it, So use

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<v Speaker 2>the spotlight intentionally. Leadership trick number five leave one question behind.

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<v Speaker 2>This might be my favorite. At the end of meetings,

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<v Speaker 2>at the end of one on one, at the end

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<v Speaker 2>of presentations, instead of ending with statements, end with one question.

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<v Speaker 2>What's the one thing we're pretending not to see. What

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<v Speaker 2>would break this plan? What would make this easier? What's

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<v Speaker 2>something nobody has asked yet? Questions linger, statements expire, Questions

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<v Speaker 2>keep working after people leave. People think in loops. A

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<v Speaker 2>great question follows people into traffic, into lunch, into bedtime,

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<v Speaker 2>and eventually they come back with better ideas. That's leadership.

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<v Speaker 2>You didn't force action, you created thought. So let's recap

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<v Speaker 2>five leadership tricks you'll actually use. Number one, arrive early

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<v Speaker 2>and improve one thing. Number two answer the question behind

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<v Speaker 2>the question. Number three use the two sentence rule, Number

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<v Speaker 2>four rotate the spotlight, and number five leave one question behind.

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<v Speaker 2>None of these require budget approval, none require a consultant,

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<v Speaker 2>none require a new title. Small leadership moves create large

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<v Speaker 2>behavioral shifts. That's something I've learned after years in emergency

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<v Speaker 2>services and everyday conversations. People don't always remember your strategy.

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<v Speaker 2>They remember your moments, and moments are smaller than most

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<v Speaker 2>people think, so you're challenge this week, pick one of these,

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<v Speaker 2>only one. Just try it for seven days and ask yourself,

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<v Speaker 2>did people change or did I? Sometimes leadership growth hides

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<v Speaker 2>in places too small to notice until they compound. So

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<v Speaker 2>before we close out today, remember this leadership is not

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<v Speaker 2>one by the biggest speech, the biggest office, or the

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<v Speaker 2>loudest person personality. Sometimes leadership is a cleaned up breakroom,

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<v Speaker 2>a better question, two fewer sentences, one unexpected thank you,

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<v Speaker 2>one moment where someone quietly says I want to work

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<v Speaker 2>harder because of that. That's the game, seven intentional minutes

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<v Speaker 2>at a time. This has been the seven minute Leadership Podcast,

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<v Speaker 2>and I thank you for listening.

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<v Speaker 1>For more Paul Fell of Alito Podcasts, visit paulfellowalito dot

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