Transparency is the bridge to earning trust back.
Transperancey
- Self-awarencess
- Understanding and communicating your own motivations, triggers, and needs.
- Who you are
- What you are looking for
- Listening
- Stop internal narrative
- Pay attention to how people express themselves
- Let go of the illusion of perfection
- List the feedback from all kinds you heard about yourself
- Circle constructive feedback
- Search for common theme
- List your Triggers
- List experiences that create stress, any emotion
- List examples going further back in time
- Awareness of Triggers
- Aids in separating fact from fiction
- Helps identify triggers that influence you actions
- Strengthens your communication as a leader
- Commitment to fact-finding
- Cultivate the Process of Transparency
- Observation
- Direct questioning
- Analysis
- Background Research
- Understand your "why you do" and "what you do"
- What triggers me to act from a less than ideal place?
- What brings out my passion and sense of purpose?
- What does success look like to me?
- What are my expectations of others in my life? In my career?
- Radical Transparency
- Sharing all information : Assumptions, passing trends, or heightended emotions
- Mindful Transparency
- Open communication that is factual and tailored to the audience
- Include the context and the plan to resolve issues
- Empathy for your audience : Transparency in a Crisis
- Get the facts immediately
- Taskforce
- Divide up the fact-finding
- Interview appropriate people
- Leverage outside research and experts
- Set a quick turnaround timeline
- Emotional Neutrality : your friend
- Address the situation with data only
- Communicate only the facts
- Sharing the Facts
- Stay open and honest
- Acknowledge undesired details and flaws
- Explain the solution
- Authenticity
- Authentic expression comes from a deep sense of knowing yourself and communicating based on that knowledge.
- Emotion neutral
- Start with truth
- Empathy : Put your feet into someone else's shoes
- The ability to understand and share the feelings of another, without judgement
- How would I feel if I were being affected by this situation?
- If this was happening to me?
- How have people's lives changed based on this situation today?
- What is the long-lasting impact of this event on people's lives?
- What are some of the fears or anxieties that situation may be bringing up for others?
- What do people need in order to feel safe and secure?
- Applying Empathy
- Understand how you would feel
- Know the information would you want to know
- Shape answers with appropriate one
The integrity of transparency is key.
The reaction is not personal. People's reactions are about them, not to you.
- Respect their emotions, Give them space to have emotions.
Handling Personal Attacks
- Remember it's not about you
- Re-center behind your own intentions and values
- Give people space to have feelings and thoughts
- Avoid gossip and unconstructive feedback
Next Steps
- Focus on actionable solutions
- Follow through
- Continue to take actions to show the growths and changes
- Continue Dialog
Conclusion :
- Take the time to understand your own motivations and triggers.
- Focus on facts
- Be mindful and consider the audience
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Communicating with Transparency