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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 GOLAJV. This

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

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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 four fifty two. In the military, building an

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<v Speaker 2>elite team is straightforward. Everyone goes through boot camp, they

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<v Speaker 2>eat together, sleep in the same barracks, trained together, sweat together,

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<v Speaker 2>and learn side by side. They don't get to leave

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<v Speaker 2>when they're tired or when the day is done. They

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<v Speaker 2>don't get to tap out when it gets hard. They're

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<v Speaker 2>locked in and the environment itself pushes them towards becoming elite.

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<v Speaker 2>But in the private sector, you don't get that luxury.

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<v Speaker 2>Your employees clock out at five o'clock. They go home

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<v Speaker 2>to their families, their personal lives and their distractions. They

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<v Speaker 2>can quit if they want to. They aren't bound by

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<v Speaker 2>the same code of conduct or uniform standards that military

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<v Speaker 2>teams are, and you can't control what they do once

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<v Speaker 2>they walk out the door. So the question is, how

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<v Speaker 2>do you build that same elite team mindset in business

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<v Speaker 2>when you don't have boot camp and barracks to lean on.

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<v Speaker 2>And here's the answer. You don't copy the environment, you

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<v Speaker 2>copy the principles. Elite military teams are built on four pillars,

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<v Speaker 2>and you can bring every one of them into your

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<v Speaker 2>workplace starting today. First, shared hardship and the military hardship

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<v Speaker 2>is built in in business, you have to create it.

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<v Speaker 2>That doesn't mean making your employees miserable. It means setting big,

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<v Speaker 2>challenging goals that require everyone to push themselves. Launching a

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<v Speaker 2>new product, tackling a major client, pulling off a company

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<v Speaker 2>wide initiative. Those moments become your shared hardship. When people

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<v Speaker 2>grind through a tough challenge together, they come out stronger,

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<v Speaker 2>more connected, and more elite. Second is absolute clarity. Military

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<v Speaker 2>teams know their mission. There's no guessing. They know why

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<v Speaker 2>they're there, what the objective is, and what success looks like.

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<v Speaker 2>Most businesses fail here. Employees don't understand the why behind

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<v Speaker 2>what they're doing. If you want an elite team, you

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<v Speaker 2>have to be crystal clear about the mission. What are

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<v Speaker 2>we chasing, Why does it matter? How does each person contribute?

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<v Speaker 2>Because without clarity, you'll never have cohesionord is accountability in

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<v Speaker 2>the military. If you don't pull your weight, someone else suffers.

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<v Speaker 2>That mindset builds an elite standard. In the private sector,

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<v Speaker 2>you need to create systems of accountability where employees hold

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<v Speaker 2>themselves and each other responsible. It can be as simple

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<v Speaker 2>as daily huddles, peer reviews, or check ins that force

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<v Speaker 2>everyone to show their work. Accountability isn't about punishment, It's

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<v Speaker 2>about trust. And fourth is culture. In the military, the

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<v Speaker 2>culture is non negotiable. You wear the uniform, you follow

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<v Speaker 2>the code, and you live by the values. In business,

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<v Speaker 2>culture is often just a poster on the wall. If

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<v Speaker 2>you want an elite team, you have to live your culture,

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<v Speaker 2>breathe it, and enforce it. That means leaders model the values,

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<v Speaker 2>peers per ten heck, the values and violations of the

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<v Speaker 2>values are addressed immediately. Culture is the glue that binds

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<v Speaker 2>the team. Now, let me be clear, your business is

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<v Speaker 2>never going to feel like boot camp, and it shouldn't,

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<v Speaker 2>but you can absolutely take the best parts of how

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<v Speaker 2>elite teams are built in the military and apply them

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<v Speaker 2>to your workforce. Set tough challenges so your people wearing

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<v Speaker 2>victories together, communicate the mission so everyone knows why they're here.

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<v Speaker 2>Build systems of accountability so no one can hide in

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<v Speaker 2>the shadows, and live your culture every single day, so

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<v Speaker 2>that belonging to the team actually means something. So that's

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<v Speaker 2>how you create an elite mindset in a private sector team,

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<v Speaker 2>not by controlling their lives outside of work or what

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<v Speaker 2>they eat and how they sleep, but by making the

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<v Speaker 2>time they end with you matter at the highest possible

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<v Speaker 2>level to become a better version of themselves than they

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<v Speaker 2>were the day before. So if you're the CEO or

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<v Speaker 2>manager and you keep saying to yourself, I want an

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<v Speaker 2>elite team like the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds, you

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<v Speaker 2>have to remember this elite isn't about where you are,

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<v Speaker 2>It's about who you decide to be when you walk

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<v Speaker 2>through the door. This has been the seven minute Leadership

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

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