Not ℹ️ informing your team can cause more harm than good.
I once had a coaching session with a director who had taken over ownership of the company but didn’t inform his employees about it.
When I asked him why, he replied, “𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔.”
But formally, he had never communicated this to his team.
It’s crucial to inform your employees about the changes you want to implement.
This doesn’t mean sharing every detail, but it does mean clearly communicating your 🛫 plans, what you’re thinking of doing, and what will be changing.
If you don’t, rumors will start to spread.
People need explanations, and if they don’t get them from you, they will come up with their own.
To be clear, not all information needs to be shared with the team.
There are valid reasons to 🤐 withhold some details temporarily or, in some cases, permanently.
But if you don’t keep your team informed, they will either seek out information from unreliable sources or make inaccurate assumptions.
Worse, they may 🤺 act on that incorrect information.
As a manager or executive, it’s far better to communicate too much than too little.