I believe leadership habit No.6 is to Be Clear. Just because I think something – doesn’t mean that everyone else will get what I’m thinking. This has historically been one of my most frustrating Leadership weaknesses.
I believed that if I set the example, people would follow that example.
I was often wrong about that.
I believed that if I said it once, everyone had it.
I was often wrong about that.
I believed that if I said it to someone, they would deliver it to others exactly the way we’d discussed.
I was often wrong about that.
And finally, I believed that if I said a little about what was clear to me, the person(s) to whom I was talking would so easily see into my mind to connect the part of the unsaid with the said.
By now you get that I was being anything but clear. I was expecting people to practice osmosis which, as it turns out, is an impossible expectation, particularly when mind-readers weren’t my audience. I learned, and am still learning, that I can’t expect people to understand the mission if I don’t give them the whole story.
It can be a challenge to slow down and make sure you’re being clear.
The temptation is to run as fast as your mind can run.
But it’s not just about you.
I found that if I was expecting my team to execute at a level that would eventually be multiple “X” times where we are today, I owed them the clarity and the direction that comes from being clear.
For me, being a good – or maybe even a great – Leader doesn’t just come down to having an understanding about what good Leadership takes.
It also comes down to the execution of what it takes. To the doing of what it takes. To the habits of what it takes. Read all my 10 leadership habits here.
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I don’t do this work to make a living.
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- Kind people.
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