Total respect

Do you totally respect your clients and peers?

Let’s check to make sure:

Total respect for your clients means you respect their time, the needs of their business, and handle them with good taste and propriety. It also means that you don’t conform to behaviours that differ in return; representing a respect for your own time, the needs of your business, and good stewardship of how you allow yourself to be treated, respectfully dismissing those who refuse such regard. Serfdom doesn’t protect a client relationship, total respect does.

Total respect for your team mates means you respect their desires, the needs that differ from your own, and to help them learn what success looks like. It also means that you don’t permit behaviours that differ in return; recognising your own desires, the needs that differ from theirs, and the help they are to render toward what success looks like executively. More a benevolent-but-firm uncle, than a bar-buddy.

Total respect is often looked at either as a defensive matter (“I deserve more respect”) or a self-sacrificing matter (“Show them some respect”). It’s neither of those things.

It’s what makes a melody where there would otherwise be discord.

It’s what makes long-term working relationships thrive without drama.

It’s a salve for sunk confidences sink or roaring egos.

It helps unlock greatness.