How open & transparent should you be when leading and communicating? Management advice is to be authentic for good reason. Authenticity builds connections, relationships and trust, all of which increases performance in pretty much any team. 

You can lead and communicate too openly, where respect for you drops, where you damage your credibility and authority and where your bosses become pretty unhappy. 

Do you know where this line is and why? 

I explain how to balance the need to be open and transparent with maintaining your credibility and authority when leading & communicating. 

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 Creating great teamwork starts with know what makes great teamwork. I discuss 6 behaviours that strong teams always display such as high levels of trust. Managing others well, inspire trust in your team, combined with good communication skills and a desire to promote openness in your team will get you a long way towards a strong motivated team. These are essential leadership skills in the workplace. 

To be a good leader, manager, being authentic is really important. To build trust and good relationships with team members, they need to get to know the real you. In contrast, instinctively we want to keep our weaknesses, our less useful characteristics etc hidden. On top of this, there are a lot of expectations that come with the position placed on us. How do we get the right balance of revealing ourselves with maintaining our credibility and authority and inspire openness in your team. We share our experiences and approaches. 

Providing feedback is essential to managing teams well. How open and honest do you make your feedback? If the feedback is not open and honest how will the team members improve? How will you increase team performance?  How open and transparent should you be with what you think? Will being frank be counterproductive and damage relationships. Will they get upset? Will they stop listening. There is a lot to balance in giving feedback. We explore how to get this balance right. 

Finally, you are communicating with team members and others every single day. Using a transparent leadership approach will build trust quickly. How much do you communicate and when do you keep silent? I share 7 questions to help you filter what you should share and what you should not. 

If you have any questions on “Leading & Communicating – How Open & Transparent Should You Be?”, please email me at [email protected] and I will get back to you. 

 Jess Coles 

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