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 Fellavaliedo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode four sixty nine. Today we're talking about one
Speaker 2: of the most painful but important leadership lessons, why employees quit.
Speaker 2: I want you to think about this line. Every resignation
Speaker 2: letter starts with a moment they felt unprotected. That's the
Speaker 2: code we're cracking today. If you don't protect your people,
Speaker 2: you don't get to call yourself their leader. First up
Speaker 2: is the moment of exit. Here's what most leaders miss.
Speaker 2: People don't quit over paychecks or paperwork, not at first.
Speaker 2: They quit because of a moment, A moment where they
Speaker 2: were humiliated in front of others, a moment where a
Speaker 2: toxic co worker was allowed to dominate, A moment when
Speaker 2: they needed back up and nobody showed up. That's the spark.
Speaker 2: That's when the clock starts ticking on their exit. The
Speaker 2: resignation letter doesn't get typed that day, but in their heart,
Speaker 2: they've already started leaving. Next is understanding that leadership is protection.
Speaker 2: The job of a leader isn't just to direct, it's
Speaker 2: to protect. Protecting your team doesn't mean shielding them from accountability.
Speaker 2: It means shielding them from the unnecessary battles that drain
Speaker 2: their energy and their dignity. When someone takes a cheap
Speaker 2: shot at your employee in a meeting, do you speak up?
Speaker 2: When your team is buried in work and another department
Speaker 2: tries to dump more on them? Do you step in
Speaker 2: when your employee is struggling? Do you defend their humanity
Speaker 2: before you dissect their performance? Protection is about saying you're
Speaker 2: safe here. You can do your job without fear of
Speaker 2: being blindsided. Which brings us now to why people stay.
Speaker 2: So let's flip the script here for a minute. Why
Speaker 2: do people stay. They stay when they know their leader
Speaker 2: has their back. They stay when they see that loyalty
Speaker 2: is a two way street. They stay when they feel
Speaker 2: defended against politics, gossip, and bad behavior. Here's the truth.
Speaker 2: Employees don't just want a boss, they want an ally.
Speaker 2: They want to know that you'll go to bat for them,
Speaker 2: and when they know that, they'll walk through fire for you.
Speaker 2: So what is the cost of not protecting? When leaders
Speaker 2: fail to protect Here's what happens. Employees stop speaking up,
Speaker 2: they stop taking risks, they start job hunting quietly, and
Speaker 2: eventually they hand you their resignation. And then you're left
Speaker 2: wondering why. You're left saying things like I wish they
Speaker 2: would have told me. But here's the thing they did,
Speaker 2: maybe not in words, but in signals, their silence, their distance,
Speaker 2: their disengagement. It was all telling you something. So how
Speaker 2: do you protect your people in real practical terms? Here
Speaker 2: are a few quick tips. Number one, stand up in
Speaker 2: the moment. If someone disrespects your employee. Don't wait until
Speaker 2: later to check in. Step in immediately and shut it down.
Speaker 2: Number two, shield from unnecessary chaos. Be the filter. Don't
Speaker 2: dump every problem from above directly onto your team, break
Speaker 2: it down, manage it, and only pass along what they
Speaker 2: actually need. Number three, defend fairly, correct privately. When your
Speaker 2: employee makes a mistake. Don't hang them out to dry
Speaker 2: in public. Defend them in front of others, correct them
Speaker 2: behind closed doors. Number four, ask the protection question in
Speaker 2: every major decision. Ask yourself, does this protect my team
Speaker 2: or does it expose them? If it exposes them, then
Speaker 2: rethink it. And Number five be visible. Don't lead from
Speaker 2: behind a desk, be present where the challenges are. Nothing
Speaker 2: protects like proximity. So let me ask you this. If
Speaker 2: I walked through your organization right now and ask your
Speaker 2: people vis your leader protect you, what would they say?
Speaker 2: Remember this, every resignation letter begins with a moment they
Speaker 2: felt unprotected. Don't give your people that moment. Have to
Speaker 2: protect them because if you don't, you can't call yourself
Speaker 2: their leader. This has been the seven Minute Leadership Podcast
Speaker 2: and as always, I thank you for listening.
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