Episode 1,228: Why People Won't Share With You
Increase Your Impact with Justin Su'a | A Podcast For Leaders
Justin Su'a
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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In this episode, I talk about why people might have a hard time telling you the truth.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1228. |
| 0:06.0 | This episode is for those of you who are leading a team, an organization, even you're part of a relationship. |
| 0:15.0 | And you value feedback. You value criticism. You want to be corrected. You want to be taken to the next level. However, |
| 0:26.1 | the people who you love the most, the people who work with you will not share critical information with you. |
| 0:34.7 | Maybe they have keys to growing the team. They have key decision making information |
| 0:40.7 | that you need. They have a little blind spot of yours that could essentially help everybody on the |
| 0:48.4 | team or in the organization, but they do not want to share it with you. And you might be thinking |
| 0:53.2 | to yourself, there's no way. |
| 0:54.5 | There's no way. I'm open. My door's open. I'm kind. But the reality is there are people around |
| 1:00.9 | you who still will not share information. And a lot of times it falls into one of four reasons, |
| 1:07.8 | or maybe a combination of these four reasons. Maybe number one, they're worried |
| 1:12.8 | about how what they say to you could negatively impact you or themselves or your relationship. |
| 1:22.1 | Number two is maybe they don't have the right words to say. They don't know exactly how to say it to you. |
| 1:30.3 | Maybe number three is they don't have the time or the energy or they don't feel that you have the time or the energy to talk to them. |
| 1:39.1 | There's a lot going on. |
| 1:40.7 | There are a lot of fires we put out and they might think that this is so insignificant that |
| 1:44.7 | there's just no time to do this. And then lastly, maybe they just don't believe that you care, |
| 1:51.4 | that you truly value them or what they have to say. And so once again, those four things is |
| 1:57.4 | maybe they're afraid of ruining the relationship or hurting your feelings or how it's |
| 2:02.2 | going to affect them. Maybe they can't find the right words. Maybe they don't have the time or energy. |
| 2:07.5 | And maybe they don't think you're interested. Now you might be thinking yourself, that's ridiculous. |
| 2:12.4 | Of course I feel that way. But the reality is in all of the organizations I go to at any level in any |
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