How the Best Leaders Cultivate Truth and Candor

Every day we are inundated in information, articles, and social media shares about leadership and its relationship to organizational performance and culture. One thing we don’t hear as much about is leadership and its role in creating a climate of truth in the organization. It caused me to think about organizations and leaders I have known who are or have been the best at cultivating honesty. The challenge is this: in some organizations, the higher you are in the hierarchy, the less you know about the real truth related to processes and performance. So, it is vitally important to have channels of information open, so that issues can be addressed and problems solved. With many of our organizations operating in the Work from Home (WFH) and Work from Anywhere (WFA) environment open channels of communication and candor are perhaps more important now in the than they have ever been.

The best leaders I know foster an atmosphere of truth-telling in many ways, demonstrating five key behaviors: [Read more…]