Story:
Serving as a leader I was faced with a difficult decision. My team was assigned with several tasks and my superior generally affords me the freedom to complete these tasks and report back to him with the results. There is a lot of subjectivity to the results and I could easily fudge a few numbers for the report to have a highly polished appeal. My team came up short on our quarterly training and we wouldn’t have the time to correct our shortcomings before my next report. Facing possible administrative or fiscal reprimands it took a lot of personal courage to report the actual values of our failed training requirements in order o maintain my integrity within the organization.
The story
I have come up from is consisted of a single protagonist that stems from a
situation I’ve found myself in as a leader within my organization. The expectation
is that an individual should choose to maintain his/her integrity and honesty in
all situations while applying the personal courage needed to report to his/her
superior of a failed task assigned to their section. Given the fact the
superior may or may not know the truth you must never compromise your integrity.
Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
I think this story would have an impact within my
organization as a majority of people at some point will have the autonomy
within their work environment and feel pressure to report up a picture perfect analysis
when in fact there are deficiencies. I think it will allow individuals to
assess how personal courage is needed to maintain their integrity and honesty.
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