A short YouTube monologue by Chad Silverstein offering leadership advice: leaders build strong culture by showing genuine care and giving attention to team members. He emphasizes small, consistent actions—checking in about personal details, casual daily greetings, handwritten notes, and spending time with people—to demonstrate non-selfish leadership and to encourage team commitment.
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One of the best qualities that a leader can give their team to build a strong culture and to get them willing to run through walls for you is when one, you can show them that you'll run through walls for them, but also to give them the attention. And it usually doesn't take a lot. You don't have to do so much. You just have to actually care and you actually have to do something. So figure out and play with some fun ways that you can spend some time with your team outside of work stuff and make little mental notes, write them down on your phone. Whatever you hear when you talking about certain things in people's lives that you can check back in, those things go such a long way and they show that you care. And if you do it genuinely from a place that you actually do care, it'll come off much more genuine and you'll be a lot more successful. Building success, you know, building healthy relationships with people on your team. I used to walk around my office every single morning and say good morning to everyone. It was my way of just getting that touch in. And I used to always hear people talking about it. And it wasn't really a big deal. I just made it a discipline. I just would do it every day. And at the end of, you know, when I had a lot of people, it did take a long time to go through, and I would stop and usually talk to a couple people. But for the most part, it was just, you know, those casual touches throughout the day to make sure that, you know, they we would see each other. And I used to write handwritten notes to a lot of people. So I did a lot of little things to show people and to that I genuinely cared. But I did genuinely care. I really, deep down inside did. And I think you have to if you're going to lead and you want others to kind of join forces and be part of whatever it is that shared common purpose and goals that you're pursuing. You got to show people that you're not selfish and that it's not all about you. You got to help them with their goals as much as you want them to help you with your goals. And one of the ways you can do that as a leader is to spend time with people. And so you got to figure out how to do that for you, that works for you. And just play with different productive actions. Make it a discipline by doing something and taking action. And don't feel like you need to spend a lot of time doing it because you don't. And you just. There's nothing more, more positive that you could do for people on your team and for your culture than to spend time with them and find ways to show them how much you care by giving them some attention.
