In this episode, Pat Trubet talks about how you can build leaders within your organization and why it is so important to have leaders in your organization. He also shares a story of how he was able to build leaders in his organization.
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00:00:17.320I'm Pat Trubet, your host of Value Team, and today we'll be talking about how you can build leaders within your organization.
00:00:22.500How to build leaders. This is an art that everybody in business or in sports, in church, in anything, if you look at anything that's growing, it has to do with leadership, but a lot of times when you think about people who decide to subscribe to leadership, because a long time ago, I decided to subscribe my entire life to leadership, my entire life.
00:00:49.280Everything had to be about leadership, and initially, when you subscribe to wanting to become a leader, you think you have to be this perfect figure. Let me explain.
00:01:03.180What is it to build leaders? So many people who decide to build leaders end up giving up on the process of building leaders, and you'll hear a lot of people saying, I don't like babysitting.
00:01:15.860Or you'll hear the common phrase of somebody saying, I just couldn't find anybody that really wanted to build. People are lazy nowadays. People are not hard workers nowadays.
00:01:24.140The millennial generation, they're very lazy, and the Gen X, they don't like to work. You know, us boomers, we used to like to work, and seniors, we used to work, and now this generation just cannot, you know, they don't like to work, and they don't listen, and they don't do this. Great.
00:01:36.680And then they go away from wanting to build leaders. This could be anybody. Even millennials say it's about millennials.
00:01:43.260But what I learned, probably the best thing I learned about leadership was from my father, and how he raised me, and how he developed me as a leader.
00:01:55.680It was very difficult being his son, in a way where I don't think he ever laid his hands on me one time. Not from that sense where it was difficult being his son, or abusive with his words. That wasn't the case.
00:02:09.240But what I mean was, it was very difficult being his son was, you couldn't ever make excuses. You couldn't ever be soft. I'll give you a story here on what happened this past week.
00:02:23.180So this past week, I'm driving out to speak in Jacksonville, and one of our biggest, because I'm on a 35 state, 30 days, I'm living in an RV, six of us, 16 cities speaking, two or 10,000 miles.
00:02:37.420And on one of the stops, we had to go from Houston to New Orleans, and then from New Orleans to Jacksonville.
00:02:45.680If you know that distance of a drive, it's a long drive. When we got to New Orleans, somebody accidentally hit the mirror on the side of the RV.
00:02:55.120We need a mirror, because if you're driving in an RV, you don't see your left side, you're going to hit somebody.
00:02:59.440So as we're driving, this guy ends up coming back, and we get his insurance. He's willing to pay for everything.
00:03:04.360As we're driving, then another 18-wheeler hits the mirror. So now the mirror is completely gone.
00:03:10.880And we go to a local place. It takes us three, four, five hours to fix it, but this is back in a sub.
00:03:17.040We're not going to get any rest to go to Jacksonville. Sometimes in life, things like this happens.
00:03:22.900So what do we do? Well, we go ahead and get in the RV, and we get it fixed, and it's late,
00:03:30.120and we have nine hours to get to Jacksonville to speak. And in the middle of the night, our driver's falling asleep.
00:03:37.140He's not feeling good. His stomach is not feeling good. And so we had to switch drivers, and other people decided to drive,
00:03:43.140and I'm driving. Everybody's driving, right? Nobody's getting any sleep. I got one hour of sleep that night.
00:03:48.560And the moment we're getting, we get to a gym because we're showering at gyms.
00:03:51.800You know, when we're just speaking, we got to go to a gym, change, and boom, go to the place.
00:03:56.600So we go to a gym, and when you're in an RV with six other people, you got to have some basic rules.
00:04:00.800One of them is no bathroom. There is no one does any one or number two.
00:04:04.960I mean, let alone number two, but nothing in our RV. We're not even showering the RV.
00:04:10.200We found gyms, and we go and shower at the gyms.
00:04:12.920So this gym we go to is closed. They went out of business.
00:04:15.940Okay, my buddy didn't yelp it. Okay, it's going out of business.
00:04:18.500So now we're upset. We haven't eaten anything, nothing. Nothing we've eaten.
00:04:22.620Long story short, we go to find another gym. We work out. We get in the RV.
00:04:26.640We barely pull up to Jacksonville by 930. Okay?
00:04:30.420I haven't eaten anything, and I haven't slept for a day and a half, one hour of sleep.
00:04:36.040I get up and speak. Next thing you know, I'm just feeling dizzy,
00:04:39.780and my dizziness is just out of control, and my energy is low.
00:04:43.900I'm trying to drink some electrolytes with Gatorade and all this stuff, and nothing's happening.
00:04:49.220So within the break, I do the meeting, and I go downstairs to one of the guys that's with us.
00:09:03.640So one of the parts about leadership that I subscribe to eventually is anybody I built is I started talking about all the difficulties of life, everything to anticipate that could happen next, anything, financial difficulties.
00:09:20.180Someone's going to pass away in your family.
00:10:00.460Because people believe they can buy that.
00:10:03.020But the people that you see making it to the next level, they spend more time thinking about, if I don't do this, this thing could happen in my life also.
00:10:13.720So, that is what gets them fired up to get up and go do it.
00:10:17.420Where the other person says, it's okay.
00:10:19.160He doesn't spend time thinking about that.
00:10:21.200And a person who's building leaders, they're constantly talking about all the positive things.
00:10:31.000And so, something that happens difficult to them, they don't know how to handle it.
00:10:34.060They don't know how to manage it on their own.
00:10:35.460They constantly need to come to you for solving every single one of their problems.
00:10:38.680And you realize, I did not build a leader.
00:10:40.620If your phone, you know, rings off the hook with 100, 200 times a day with people wanting you to solve everybody's problems, you have not built leaders.
00:10:50.780If you speak to people that are going through problems and you try to solve everybody's problems on your own, you're still relying on everybody to call you to solve everyone's problems.
00:11:03.740But if you teach them how to process and the possibilities and the options and feed it back to them and they're going through it in their own mind and they start trusting their own intuition, their own judgment, their own way of doing things, now you're possibly building a leader.
00:11:20.240Possibly building a leader because they can still make the big mistakes in business and fail miserably and be out of business.
00:11:26.520And so, leadership isn't just about talking about all the great things.
00:11:35.520It's talking about all the tough things and preparing people to anticipate what's next.
00:11:39.340Meaning, and there's got to be timing in it and some common sense in it where it's not, I'm not going to sit there with my three-year-old son, Tico, and tell him, hey, one day, you know, you and your wife are going to have to pay the bills together.
00:11:50.200No, but I'm going to tell him about, hey, kid, you're going to go to school, a big boy is going to bully you.
00:11:54.440I just hope you realize this is going to happen.
00:12:18.420When a person gets a job, hey, you may get, if you do this, you may get fired.
00:12:22.640If you do that, you may, if you don't hit your quota, you may be replaced by somebody else.
00:12:26.820So it's always timing on where they're at to talk about the issue that's next for them and challenging them to not make any excuses and say, oh, my God, I'm going through such tough times and all.
00:12:35.840The more you take that away, the more you talk about the possibilities and challenges and saying, you still ought to push the limits because exhaustion, you know how many times this has happened in my life?
00:12:44.840This isn't the first time I was hospitalized for exhaustion.