The more credible you are, the easier it is for you to both motivate your employees to perform well and to implement unpopular instructions. You should therefore work specifically on improving your credibility.
 
1. You can’t please all of the people all of the time – if you try to, you will fail and your credibility will be damaged.

2. Wherever possible, try not to dash your employees’ hopes – if they ask you for help, you should do your utmost.

3. Avoid populism and check when making decisions whether you can sustain them in the long term. Every decision you have to retract undermines your credibility.

4. See conflicts through. If you avoid them, nobody knows where they stand with you.

5. Admit openly to mistakes – only then can you talk incontrovertibly about the mistakes of your employees. In this context, exercise some self-criticism in order for criticism of your employees to be more credible when the tables are turned.

6. You need not communicate everything you know. But if you do say something, you should be honest. If what you say still turns out to be untrue, because you did not know otherwise, say so.

7. Do not demand of others anything that you are not prepared to do yourself. After all, why should employees work overtime or arrive on time if you don’t?



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