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“Leading with confidence is about owning your decisions and standing by them.”
Researh from DDI shows that “employees are 5.3 times more likely to trust leaders if they willingly and regularly show their vulnerable sides. Moreover, leaders who are self-aware of their imperfections and genuinely acknowledge their shortcomings are 7.5 times more likely to maintain employee trust.”
As a leader, you’re not going to get it right every time. In fact, perfection scares people. The people you lead will respect you more when you can admit when you’re wrong. Own your decisions and stand by them. Learn from the decisions that time proves weren’t your best.
So often I see absent leadership at play. Leaders too scared to make the hard calls, the hard decisions. People pretending to be servant leaders and giving free reign to their people when really they are only avoiding making the hard decisons, the hard calls.
When your favourite sporting team takes to the field, you know there is a chance of them either winning or losing – but you just want to see your team try its best. Same with leadership.
The people you lead want to know you have the capacity (knowledge, confidence and skill) to make good decisions and that you have both their interests and the organisations interests at heart.
After that – it’s up to you to have the guts to stand by your decision. Own your decision. Own the consequences of your decision.
Nobody wants to follow somebody who makes others the scapegoat, blamestorms or is absent when it matters most.
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