A look at how trust is the key piece to our relationships with the people we lead and how it holds us all together.
Trust might be the most important piece of the leadership and relationship puzzle. All of the pieces are important if you want to complete that puzzle, but it all starts with those vital edge pieces. The edge pieces hold all the other pieces together. Trust in our relationships are like the edge pieces of a puzzle without them we just don’t have much hope of figuring things out. It doesn’t matter if it is my spouse, children, friends or the people I work with there has to be a level of trust in order for the relationship to work. Just like a puzzle has different shapes and sizes to each of its pieces, trust has different levels and degrees depending on the purpose of the relationship.
Recently I was watching the show The Mayor of Kingstown and one of the characters, Frank Moses says “Trust takes time, it’s minutes and miles, it’s offerings and sacrifices.” I thought that quote was brilliant. It made me think of two things:
Leaders have to earn the trust of the people they are leading.
The people I’m leading should get my trust from the start, if I want any hope of our relationship being productive.
I’m not sure why I have always thought that way. It just seemed like the right strategy when I took on a leadership role. So after watching this show I started to dig into why this strategy. I wanted to understand why this strategy made sense to me? I wish I could say that it was something I read or a deep introspection, but I think it’s just like the puzzle I was talking about earlier. When we are putting together a puzzle we try fitting lots of pieces together. Sometimes those pieces fit and other times they don’t but eventually through trial and error, a keen eye, observation and a bit of gut instinct we make that puzzle one giant piece of art.
After all of this reflection on trust in leadership it gave me a fresh perspective. I never thought of leadership as an art. Did I see it as a skill or a craft? Yes, however it truly is an art. You can fall in love with it, it can give you great joy, it can leave you scratching your head and it can break your heart but to make all the pieces fit together you have to have trust from the people you are leading. Remember to light the WICK of leadership by Working hard, acting with Integrity, being Committed and treating people with kindness. Have a great week and don’t forget to comment, like, share and follow for more content.
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