Leadership Influence: Getting Buy-In

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The importance of getting your team's buy-in cannot be overstated. As a manager, you should expect and encourage your team to ask "why?" It is the best gauge you have to determine if the reasons for your instructions are understood by your team. Your goal should not be compliance. What you really want is the 'buy-in' of the members of your team: you want them to understand and respect the reasoning behind your decisions, the overall considerations that drive your directives. Without your team understanding the 'whys' behind your decisions - without getting their buy-in - they will see them as petty and arbitrary, and their respect for you will suffer.
Every interaction you have with one of your employees is either building the respect and trust level, or tearing it down. Every action, every interaction, with any employee is building an image of you in every employee's mind, of your effectiveness as a leader.

[@JohnD-om2ul]

Thanks dude this is great stuff

[@aeonjoey3d]

This is how I was mentored in leadership. I seek to gain buy in from my team, and they know that they are welcome to ask questions and that their curiosity, and input is not only respected but expected. Especially when something 'urgent' happens or is needed, buy-in is more important to get it right the first time.