Good leaders hold themselves accountable.
Sweeping things under the rug does not magically make issues go away, and moving dirt to another location is not real cleaning…
Thankfully, I have a Wife who will call me out if I’m wrong, and I appreciate her for that…
The problem can’t always be your followers…
If they’re leaving, it could be that you failed to provide the direction and safety they needed…
Rather than directly addressing their concerns, they were villainized for raising their concerns to begin with…
This is hardly the foundation for sustainable growth that can foster future leadership…
People should be taken care of at all times and your message should align to your behaviour…
Any misalignment will jeopardize the integrity of your stance as a leader and create more confusion in the environment…
This is precisely why recruitment cannot afford to operate transactionally…
Its purpose is too important to the health of the corporation…
Too many in the profession see turnover as an opportunity to backfill and cash a cheque, reducing themselves to scavengers who prey on dead corporations with terrible cultures…
Recruiting for a good leader is far better than recruiting for a bad leader…
I owe it to the people’s lives that I’m temporarily disrupting, and leading to what I’m selling as a “land flowing with milk & honey”, to make sure that the environment is one where they can see a progression of their career…
This all starts with good leaders who create the policies, systems, and culture that facilitates career development…
Anything less than this means that we’ve missed the mark and have done those in our care a disservice.
