Sure ways to lose integrity, or to keep yourself devoid of any integrity, according to those wise first graders:
- Carry on with all of those high level promises that you know you can not keep.
- Don’t even think about lip syncing that song at the corporate karaoke meeting.
- Stay distracted and unfocused (and keep blaming it on adult ADD- my add, not nice, not true). In fact stop listening on purpose.
- Spread the blame- liberally if you are high enough in the organization.
- Here is a good one- go past not listening to Completely ignoring everyone.
But you came here to our second day of integrity skill training straight from the first graders to learn how to be better (ah you remembered yesterday’s post).
There are ways, they tell us, to GAIN integrity:
- Avoid bossy people. Think this through. It is not just a first grade thing and has multiple levels.
- Play with someone new. In our case cross collaborate?
- Help a current friend. And do it even if no one is watching (we learned that with flip chart one).
- For crying out loud if you have been tagged move out of the gaga pit. You had your chance and there will be other Gaga games.
- That promise thing has reappeared. I would add- do not be afraid to make a bold promise once in a while and then do everything you can (with integrity) to keep it.
- Go beyond yesterdays “do the right thing” and stand up for those choices. My add? Stand up for others when they make those choices too.
But again, what does this have to do with change management, leadership, communication and all the adult corporate stuff we talk about here at Horizontal Change?
