| Integrity is on everyone’s mind these days.
Sometimes the loss of integrity is obvious such as knowing
that a business owner or company keeps two sets of books.
Other times it's less obvious but nonetheless troubling like
when an individual says "do as I say, not as I do" or "we
don't like it either but that's just the way everyone does
business today". And then there are the subtle activities
that cause us to question other people's integrity - calling
in sick to go shopping or surfing the Internet when the boss
isn't looking.
Integrity is not something you do. It is something you earn
(or lose) from others by your actions. Integrity is
about other people trusting you. Do you believe the
politician just because he proclaims "I'm a man of integrity"
or do you evaluate his proclamation based on
actions? Only other people can tell you if you have
integrity.
Judy Suiter, co-author
of the Universal Language Book and Exploring Values: The Power of Attitudes
emphasizes that the reward for acting with Integrity
is endorsement.
Suiter says that when people are given endorsement, the
“law of reciprocity” kicks in and
they want to give something back. In the workplace what they
give back is performance.
Integrity is all about doing what you say you will do when
you said you would do it. Do you act with Integrity? Would
your customers and employees or managers agree that that you
are trustworthy and conscientious.
Answer these questions:
Do you hold back and
qualify everything?
Do you ever try too hard or
become so enthusiastic that you over-promise to make a
sale?
Don't speak up when you
should?
Do you find yourself saying what
you need to say just to get through a meeting?
Do you say things just to go
along and not cause trouble?
Do you say what needs to be said
and not sugar-coat it?
Do you ever embellish the
truth?
Do you forward materials that you
promised?
Do you ever want to help so much
that you put yourself in impossible situations?
Do you intend to get to things
but never have the time?
Do you have trouble admitting
mistakes?
Do other people ever get
blind-sided because you don’t warn them?
Do other people ever think you
know more than you let on?
Do you have a
tough time keeping a secret? (Do you have
a special someone with whom you have no secrets?
Then read more about integrity
in this month's issue of Labor Storm Alert.)
Tough questions. Very tough
questions.
Are you ready to face the music? Do others buy what you
say? Does your organization encourage acting with integrity or
does it consider openness and honesty as disharmonious and
disruptive? Building endorsement and integrity begins
first with understanding your own strengths and weaknesses and
then learning to meet others where he or she is, to get done
what you need to get done. Without this meeting there is
no endorsement and without endorsement in the workplace,
poor performance and turnover and low morale and stress takes
over.
Integrity is a precious commodity these days. Without it
nothing else really matters. To learn how you or your
organization can increase endorsement with employees,
customers, and vendors and hire and promote employees with
integrity, call us today at 717.656.4632 or click
here.
News Stories and Press Releases from and about
SPS
Just released
- LABOR STORM ALERT - September
2002
More
about Integrity - Are you prepared to walk the good
talk?
Motivate with
Attitudes
Conflicts: It's
Not Always Just about
Me-and-You
A Stormy
Workforce
Forecast:
- Nursing Shortage Impact More Than Just HealthCare
Industry
- More Facts and Trends about Asian-Americans and
Teachers
Click here to read the LABOR
STORM ALERT
Think
Twice: Crystal Gazing and the Future of Work
- Workforce, September 2002
Cross-training makes a
strapping staff - August 16, 2002, Central
Penn Business Journal
Visions Marketing Sees
Clear Results with SELECT - August, 2002
Past Issues of The Total View
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