Professional Growth Begins With Trust
Are you seeking professional growth? Does it surprise you that trust matters for growth?
Consider the small business CEO. He or she has a knack for doing many things. It is not uncommon that this knack is exactly what derails growth.
Sure, the business entity will grow to a point, yet when the responsibility and accountable don’t scale everything will stop and start with the CEO. In the absence, or unavailability of the CEO, nothing starts or finishes.
Workplace Roles and Careers
The same is true for the supervisor or manager. If the working supervisor decides it is easier to do it herself rather than train someone else, boom things fail to start or finish.
That eager board person on the non-profit board, you know the one, she raises her hand for all the volunteer assignments. Nothing starts and nothing finishes.
One person shows are hard to scale. In fact, more than hard, it is nearly impossible. Sure, there may be some scaling but only to a point, then nothing starts and nothing finishes.
Professional Growth
Professional growth starts with trust. When you discover that you can let go and trust another person with the assignment new growth begins.
It doesn’t begin just because you asked. It begins because you stopped, even for just a moment, you stopped being tactical and started being more strategic.
Tactics matter and they are how we execute the strategy. Yet, they can never become the strategy or there won’t be any growth.
Your growth begins with giving trust to others and then maintaining accountability for the quality, accuracy, and completeness of the work.
No trust, no growth, every time.
-DEG
Dennis E. Gilbert is a business consultant, speaker (CSPTM), and culture expert. He is a five-time author and the founder of Appreciative Strategies, LLC. His business focuses on positive human performance improvement solutions through Appreciative Strategies®. Reach him through his website at Dennis-Gilbert.com or by calling +1 646.546.5553.
