Embracing Failure as a Mentor: How it Impacts Your Employees

Is there anything more counter-intuitive for most people than the idea of embracing failure? In this week’s story on Platinum Rules for Success, new contributor JeKnows Biz, discusses embracing failure and specifically, it’s impact on direct reports. For those in leadership roles, demonstrating the ability fail gracefully – make them, learn from them, and move on – can have an empowering and energizing effect on teams. When we allow ourselves to release the self-imposed expectation of perfection, we grow faster and learn more, while inspiring those around us.
T he great Winston Churchill once said that success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. A true leader, therefore embracing failure, learns the lessons taught by setbacks and continues until they succeed. Yet, in today’s corporate culture, failure, for the most part, is seen as a bad thing with leaders not taking ownership of problems. The Harvard