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Leadership principle #5: Trust

The momentum and true excellence of your team will not be built without a basis of trust. Your people must trust you, and you must trust your team.

Simple, but not easy.

The problem is that you’d like trust to be something that you can instill with a little bit of effort, and then not deal much with it after that. Kind of like setting pay levels, it’s something you often only have to revisit only under exceptional circumstances – but not daily.

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Signs of the upturn in jobs

Two bits of news coincided this week:

An AP article: More Employees Quit Their Jobs As Economy Improves
A Gallup report: U.S. Workers Report Most Job Creation in 19 Months

These point to an actual upturn that I’ve been talking about in previous articles (Preventing a race for the exits, Fear is not engagement, The impending crisis in employee retention). It’s time to pay attention and take action!

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Take time to celebrate!

Part of the principle of having variation is that there’s a time for joy as well as a time to mourn. For me, today is a day to celebrate, as I have finally achieved my status as Certified Leadership Coach from The Forton Group. My wife and I went out and had chocolate. Decadent chocolate. And it was worth it.

In reality, this is more of a major step for myself than for my customers. In the world of coaching, customers ask more about experience and expertise than they do about certifications – at least in the US. But it’s a milestone for me.

What do we learn for the world of leadership? Great question.

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