Transparency is your ability to explain the why behind your actions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nRemember as a kid when you would ask your parents to go somewhere and they said, \u201cNo.\u201d Your next line was always, \u201cWhy not?\u201d And then came the classic line that every parent has said more than they are willing to admit, \u201cBecause I said so!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This line might work for parents who can lead out of authority and control. However, it will only serve to erode trust between leaders and employees. Employees need and deserve to understand the why behind decisions, requests, and company direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brene Brown said, \u201cWhen people don\u2019t have all the information, they fill it in with fear.\u201d Fear causes people to create stories based on zero facts, spread gossip, and waste a lot of energy trying to understand what is going on. Company culture and productivity always suffer as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Below are six actions to building trust with transparency:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Explain the why behind your decisions<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Share your intentions, feelings, and motivations<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Refuse to keep secrets<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Admit mistakes quickly<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Embrace vulnerability<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Make yourself available<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Every day is a lesson in building trust. My earliest memory of trust came when I was seven years old. I was riding my bicycle barefooted around the neighborhood when my toe got caught in the spokes. I remember lying on the ground, bloody and crying, then my dad came to scoop me up and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matoproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matoproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matoproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matoproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matoproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matoproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/matoproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matoproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matoproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matoproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matoproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}