Promises and Leadership: How Being a Promise Keeper Can Elevate Your Influence

Win Make Give with Ben Kinney

Ben Kinney Training

Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Win Make Give Podcast, Ben Kinney, Bob Stewart, and Chad Hyams discuss the importance of keeping promises in both personal and professional relationships. They share personal stories of broken promises and explore strategies for making and keeping commitments. They emphasize the need for clarity, accountability, and communication to build trust and maintain strong relationships. Tune in to learn how to be a promise keeper and inspire others to do the same.

Key Takeaways:

Promises are considered declarations with an expectation of fulfillment and can deeply affect both personal and professional relationships.
Leadership can be challenged by promises; leaders must be mindful of the commitments they make and how they can be perceived by their teams.
Personal experiences with unkept promises have long-lasting effects and can influence our expectations and actions later in life.
Clear communication, timelines, and documentation can significantly help in keeping promises and holding others to theirs.
Addressing broken promises quickly and directly can preserve trust and provide the opportunity for rectification

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Wind Make Give Podcast, this is Ben Kenny joined today with Bob Stewart and Chad Himes.
0:14.0	Today we're gonna deep dive into a word
0:16.8	that means a lot to all of us, everybody here.
0:20.8	We're gonna talk about the word promise. The dictionary says that promise is a
0:26.2	declaration that one will do or refrain from doing something specified.
0:35.0	Another definition is a legally binding declaration
0:41.0	that gives the person to whom it is made a right to expect or claim their
0:46.1	performance or forbearance of a specified act. What's interesting is if you
0:52.3	look at a in real estate or in title you might see something
0:57.0	called a promissory note, a promise to pay, right?
1:01.6	It's a word to a lot of us that meads commitment.
1:06.4	We're getting to that time of year
1:08.6	where we start thinking about another word called goals. goals what are we going to accomplish all
1:16.4	that business planning those types of things and a lot of times people think
1:20.7	about goals as dreams.
1:25.0	And I think that's a mistake.
1:26.5	When you think about a goal as a dream, that's something that I hope I can accomplish.
1:30.2	I think about a goal as a promise. It's a promise that I make to the company, right?
1:36.0	It's a promise that I make to employees,
1:38.0	it's a promise I make to my boss,
1:40.0	it's a promise I make to myself, to our family, right?
1:43.1	And our ability to keep or deliver on these promises
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