T + C = Respect

Hi,
today I would like to muse on something that can be quite elusive for business owners and managers. Something people like you in leadership strive to attain.

It can be simple, yet the hard part is being consistent. Lets dive right in.

T = trust and C = confidence.

Everyday you have to build trust and confidence with your team and your boss. In effect your words must match your actions. When they do you build trust and confidence. When you don't you lose trust and confidence.

If you know someone who promises the sun, moon and stars, but never delivers, there is a good chance you don't respect them. If you believe that promising things to your team just to keep them off your back ..... watch out. Every time you don't deliver, the funds in your Respect account go flying out the door.

If someone asks you a question that you can't answer right there and then, be honest. Explain you need time to get back to them. Agree the time frame and then get back to them as agreed. When you do this, you build trust and confidence. Whether your answer is yes or no, it will be accepted better as you have done what you said you would do.

There is nothing worse than not being respected, because also people don't have trust and confidence  in you. Think back to your first ever job, most likely there was two people in that workplace. One, everyone told you to avoid, and another that people said was fair and you could trust.

Most often it is the people who are trusted, others have confidence in and have the respect of the majority, who go on to achieve great things. Imagine starting off your day with one million gold pieces of trust and another million of confidence. You have a respect balance of two million.

Every minute your words and actions are being evaluated. When they don't match, your Respect balance drops by 100,000. You have twenty opportunities every working day to keep your balance at two million or see it drop to Zero. The choice is yours.

Respect is elusive, but simple to earn. Match your actions to your words and watch your Respect increase. When you have respect, your horizon broadens and people will come to you of their own free will, with ideas and proposals. For you it is much better to be the one people seek out, than spending the day chasing your own tail with nothing to show for it.

Trust + Confidence = RESPECT

Colin Myles
Author & Listener

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When you believe you are a leader and no-one is following, then you are only taking a walk " African Proverb

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