This lesson may is as important to followers as to leaders. If you’ve read my book, HEIRPOWER! Eight Basic Habits of Exceptionally Powerful Lieutenants!, you may recall that one of the tenets of Building Trust is keeping people informed.
One of the worst things that can happen to a leader is to get a call from higher headquarters asking about something that went down badly that you aren’t aware happened at all. Not knowing makes the leader look as though she doesn’t know what’s going on in her unit. Oh, WAIT! That’s exactly what has happened, or not happened, if you will.
It seems to me that if something happened that higher headquarters aren’t aware of immediately, the entire unit suffers. A unit that doesn’t share information is seen as untrustworthy by external folks.
As a parent, I always wanted to know my girls had messed up before hearing it from an external source. Not that I wouldn’t respond in kind to them having done something they knew better than to do, but it was better hearing it straight from the horse’s mouth.
If, or when, something happens, good, but especially bad, tell your boss! That will not only save face for the boss, but it will help you develop the type of trust you need to get the job done. It may even help you get promoted!
Until next time, Be GREAT! You ARE!
¡HEIRPOWER!
bob vásquez!
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