127: Why Talking About Your Mistakes Helps You Lead Better

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Business, Management, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2014

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Have you considered telling the people you lead about the mistakes you’ve made? On this episode, why you lead better when you share your mistakes.

“Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.” -Dale Carnegie

Here are the benefits to talking about your mistakes with others:

You get people’s attention.
You open the door for people to be more willing to accept coaching.
You give people a realistic path of what it looks like to learn how to lead.
It reminds you what it was like to learn that skill in the first place.
It keeps you humble.

Two words of caution:

Make sure you share real mistakes you’ve made.
Sadly, not every organization values this kind of transparency. Be smart about the politics where you are.

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0:00.0	Have you've considered telling the people you lead about the mistakes you've made?
0:06.0	On this show, why you lead better when you share your mistakes?
0:11.0	This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 127.
0:15.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:20.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:26.6	This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahovia.
0:31.8	This is a weekly coaching show to help us all be better leaders through
0:36.2	improved communication, human relations, and personal productivity. The people's side of, of organizations, of how to lead effectively.
0:46.3	Welcome back if you listen to the show regularly and if this is your first time, I hope you'll
0:51.2	indulge me for a moment of personal privilege.
0:53.7	I've, you all know if you've listened for a while that Bonnie and I were expecting a new little
0:58.8	one and she has arrived.
1:01.9	Some of you probably saw on social media this past week that
1:05.5	our little Hannah arrived last week and she is doing fantastic. Bonnie's doing great. They're both already home from the hospital, recovering beautifully and
1:17.7	she's just a wonderful baby and it's just such a neat time in life and I forgot how small they are. It's just such a it's just such a need time and of course as you all know for those of you who have kids a lot of work and a lot of fatigue
1:36.2	involved too but but in spite of that full speed ahead here on the show and I
1:41.6	mention it one just to thank everybody for your kind
1:47.7	notes and emails and postings on the blog I so appreciated I did put her little picture up on the blog so you can check it out at coaching for leaders.com
1:57.6	So thank you for everyone who's reached out. I'm so grateful and also just a heads up that I'm a little behind on email at the moment for all the obvious reasons.
2:07.0	So I'm mostly caught up on a few things or on most of the blog comments and all that from the last week but if you don't hear from me right away on a
2:14.4	feedback item in the next week or two I know that I will get back to you in the near future
2:18.9	and speaking of which you know full speed ahead on the show and the topic this week which is looking
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