Your Team Is a Mirror, Here’s What Your Leadership Is Showing | Tammy Fitzpatrick, PhD

i love that i love that i was thinking back as you were saying this someone i worked with and proximity is power i believe and it sounds a lot aligned with your approach of that modeling and but there was a point where i was around a leader that didn't have integrity of their word and what that started for me to do is to bring down my integrity Like, oh, they say they're going to do something and they don't do it.

Well, it's fine if someone else on the team says something and they don't do it.

And then it was me.

It was like, oh, it's late.

It's Friday.

I said I'd have that report by, you know, 10 o'clock at night.

It's 930.

Well... that person says stuff and doesn't do it.

Maybe I can just do it tomorrow.

It

doesn't matter.

And I'm like, but you know, luckily enough, I caught myself.

I'm like, no, their integrity is theirs.

And my integrity is mine.

My word is bond.

I say it, I do it.

And I'll be the first to say, Hey, I thought this or I had this information and it's changed and I'm okay to, you know, after I draw that line in the sand, erase it and draw a new one because I did acquire new information.

I did have a different perspective or a different opinion on something.

But it's so important to understand that level of modeling and the way I like the impact way.

I like that.

I would have to use that, Sari.

Right? And just defining what's appropriate for you based on your value set.

And you gave a perfect example where it's a trickle effect, where all of a sudden the leader's not living by their word.

They're not delivering what they said they were going to deliver.

And what we oftentimes see is very clearly employees will determine where they fit and where they don't fit based on the level of integrity of the leader.