From the course: Communicating with Transparency
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Building trusted leaders
From the course: Communicating with Transparency
Building trusted leaders
- As a leader, your job is to create the kind of relationship with your team where they would follow you into a fire and know that they will make it back out safely. This requires a deep sense of trust and respect for you. We know that transparency leads to this deep sense of trust. But communicating transparently isn't just about telling the truth all the time. It's a much more involved process that begins with some important self-exploration. Becoming a more transparent leader begins with self-awareness, which means understanding your own motivations, triggers, and needs, deeply and having the ability to articulate them openly and with vulnerability. To your audience, this translates as authenticity. It shows that you, the communicator, is aware and honest about who you are and what you're looking for, which gives you credibility. And credibility is the very first step to trust. To build this type of radical…
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