Integrity Is Honoring Your Word, and Honoring Your Word Is

1. Keeping your word, and on time

OR:

2. Whenever you will not be keeping your word, just as soon as you become aware that you will not be keeping your word (including not keeping your word on time) saying to everyone impacted:

a. that you will not be keeping your word, and
b. that you will keep that word in the future, and by when, or, that you won’t be keeping that word at all, and
c. what you will do to deal with the impact on others of the failure to keep your word (or to keep it on time).

Honoring Your Word

Remember, that during the course, honoring your word when you are not going to keep your word means that as soon as you know you will not or may not be keeping your word, you let us know, and clean up any mess left for yourself and others.

In fact, to empower and enable yourself as a leader, you will have to be rigorous in honoring your word – with yourself, with
those you lead, and with those who lead you. So this is an opportunity for you to practice being a leader, that is, being a person of integrity. And remember, integrity is one of the four factors of the foundation for leadership.

Cost/Benefit Analysis On Giving Your Word

The time to do a cost/benefit analysis is when you are considering giving your word. Before giving your word it is wise to weigh the benefits of giving your word against the cost of keeping that word. When you give your word, you are in effect saying, “I will make that happen.”

Cost/Benefit Analysis On Keeping Your Word And On Honoring Your Word

When it comes time to keep your word, there will also be instances when doing a cost/benefit analysis is appropriate. However, it is never appropriate to do a cost/benefit analysis on honoring your word. Once you have given your word, if you are to be a man or woman of integrity you have no choice but to honor your word, exactly as we have distinguished honoring your word.

After you have given your word, doing a cost/benefit analysis on honoring your word demonstrates that you are untrustworthy, and guarantees that you will not be a person of integrity.

Given that integrity is one of the four factors of the foundation for being a leader and for the effective exercise of leadership, practicing honoring your word is an important opportunity when choosing to be a leader.

Integrity And Performance

As this new model of integrity points out, integrity is the state or condition of being whole, complete, unbroken, unimpaired, sound, perfect condition. Such a state is the necessary and sufficient condition for workability. And, workability is a necessary condition for performance. As a result, it becomes clear that integrity influences performance.

Choose Greatness – A Guide For Extraordinary Performance is designed to challenge and inspire you. Use this tool wisely by choosing a maximum of 3 items per week to focus on. Understand there is no end, no mountain top to reach when it comes to the mastery of greatness.

Here are some ways to do that:


1. Be impeccable with your word
2. Commit to being a person of integrity
3. See yourself as leader, regardless of position, role or authority
4. Complete you past and resolve any unfinished business
5. Understand you are always at choice in the matter
6. Be proactive verses reactive
7. Be at cause in the matter
8. Know your top 4 core values or guiding principals
9. Have a goal or project that inspires you
10. Upgrade your language
11. Use the language that empowers yourself and others
12. Exercise daily
13. Journal daily
14. Learn something new daily
15. Practice critical self-reflection
16. Improve your relationship with change
17. Commit to consistent continuous personal improvement
18. Commit to consistent continuous organizational improvement
19. Embrace the notion of change + good + sacrifice
20. Practice authentic communication
21. Plan your week in advance
22. Have something to look forward to every day, week, month and year
23. Know your top 3/3/3’s (3 daily goals, 3 weekly goals, 3 monthly goals)
24. Create vision board that inspires you
25. Focus on how you want it to be
26. Be the type of person who would naturally attract the things you want and need
27. Invite others into a conversation that strengthens your relationship
28. Be able to listen to others in such a way that they actually feel gotten
29. Create a list or 10-20 accountability questions that support your development
30. Check in regularly with your accountability buddy and review your questions
31. Set a clear intention for the day
32. Identify 4 virtues you intend to cultivate today
33. Identify 4 vices you are intend to reduce or eliminate
34. Make a list of 20 personal things that you currently tolerating
35. Make a list of 20 professional things that you currently tolerating
36. Schedule time to review your week. Journal your accomplishments, incompletions, lessons, insights, what worked, what didn’t work, concerns, opportunities, commitments
37. Identify your 4 biggest opportunities to meet or exceed your top goal
38. Have a clearly defined gap between the way it is and the way you want it to be
39. Set up a weekly accountability call
40. Perfect the present
41. Hire a coach
42. Practice some form of daily, weekly and monthly renewal
43. Get to the source of problem rather than suppress the symptoms
44. Focus your attention on what matters most
45. Cultivate a positive attitude
46. Be committed to something bigger than yourself
47. Define your leadership gap
48. Create a plan and work with your coach to close your leadership gap
49. Practice endorsing and acknowledging others
50. Define success for yourself
51. Put your happiness first, above all else
52. Get your request to demand ratio to 80/20
53. Choose the environments that bring out your highest version of you
54. Practice authentic listening
54. Ask better questions
55. Identify your next 20 shifts to make
56. Adopt a coaching mindset
57. Increase you own coach-ability
58. Stop making excuses for how you wound up being
59. Tolerate nothing
60. Empower the people around you
61. Share your top 3 goals for the year with 10 people
62. Write your own epitaph
63. Welcome feedback from others and practice only saying “thank you”
64. Create a use a one-page strategic plan
65. Conduct a daily huddle (stand-up meeting) with team
66. Have a weekly sales meeting
67. Know and review your critical numbers
68. Review financials, profit and loss each month
69. Know your “Why?” for being in business
70. Ask for referrals and introductions
71. Make “We Care” outbound phone calls post sale or service
72. Stay on top of collections and accounts receivables
73. Identify the 3-5 biggest threats/predictable stops that might interfere with you achieving your top goals
74. Make sure you set yourself up to play a winnable game

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The Japanese word “kaizen” simply means “good change”, with no inherent meaning of either “continuous” or “philosophy” in Japanese dictionaries or in everyday use. The word refers to any improvement, one-time or continuous, large or small, in the same sense as the mundane English word “improvement”. However, given the common practice in Japan of labeling industrial or business improvement techniques with the word “kaizen” (for lack of a specific Japanese word meaning “continuous improvement” or “philosophy of improvement”), especially in the case of oft-emulated practices spearheaded by Toyota, the word Kaizen in English is typically applied to measures for implementing continuous improvement, or even taken to mean a “Japanese philosophy” thereof. The discussion below focuses on such interpretations of the word, as frequently used in the context of modern management discussions.

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