22/07/2025
Your silence isn't neutral, it's permission. Guard The Standard!
A team member misses a team meeting. You don't say anything as they've been a solid player for a long time.
The next week, another team member doesn't show.
The slippery slope of broken promises needs to be stopped in its tracks through expectations set, accountability, saying something when actions aren't congruent with words, and before the team falls apart.
Eventually the leader boils over, loses their cool, and relationships are compromised.
Don't let it get to that point. Guard The Standard! Say something, call them out, meet in private and discuss what's going on, before it's too late.
My friend says, "Kindness is more important than being nice. Kindness means I am firm and have expectations of promises kept, whereas being nice means I may allow anything to slide, and that helps no one in the space of true leadership."
Don't let standards slide.