Leadership transparency
Mar 17 - by Kaleb Heitzman
The concept of leadership transparency is a vulnerable thought. In an era where manipulation and deceitfulness is often perceived as the tool needed to make it to the top, leadership transparency has gone amiss. Too often our outward reflection is not an inward representation of our lives and this sets up breeding ground for failure.
Unfortunately, we can all name a leader whom has been caught up in a scandal, lie or some other major failure. There has been a breakdown in transparency with leaders of all shapes and size. Transparency is the discipline of allowing others to see through you, having nothing to hide. This is not to say that we as leaders should disclose our entire life. It does mean that we do not engage in activities that would adversely affect the direction that we offer our followers.
Perhaps another word for transparency is integrity. We are who we say we are and we do what we say we will do. In order to live this philosophy we must be transparent with nothing to hide. It is time to stop hiding failures but instead engage them with the help of others in private accountability groups. If we do not, our failures will consume us and make us something differen