🎙️ #5 Principles: Honest Communication - When Truth Builds Trust

In this episode of The Open Shelf, we launch our new principles series with an exploration of honest communication, focusing on how transparency builds trust and enables collective problem-solving in professional environments.

In this deep dive episode, we explore how honest communication shapes workplace dynamics:

✅ Why transparency about challenges builds trust when delivered with empathy
✅ Techniques for delivering difficult feedback with respect and clarity
✅ Creating psychological safety as a prerequisite for honesty
✅ Balancing transparency and tact in professional relationships

Chapters:
🔹 00:00 - Introduction to Honest Communication
🔹 02:27 - The Importance of Trust and Transparency
🔹 05:05 - Frameworks for Honest Communication
🔹 11:04 - Balancing Transparency and Information Overload
🔹 19:59 - Transparency and Accountability in Organizations
🔹 22:10 - Navigating Difficult Conversations
🔹 33:25 - Building Trust Through Honest Communication

Goodreads Links:

• 📖 The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• • https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things
• 📖 Radical Candor by Kim Scott
• • https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939161-radical-candor
• 📖 Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Stephen R. Covey, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler.
• • https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15014.Crucial_Conversations
• 📖 Teach Yourself to Think by Edward de Bono
• • https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7959557-teach-yourself-to-think
• 📖 Winning by Jack Welch
• • https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/866222.Winning
• 📖 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
• • https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36072.The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People
• 📖 Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
• • https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848190-extreme-ownership
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