Credibility

Credibility…

Nungguin excel hang dan pesenan slice fish red chilly plus vegetable gue dari restoran India langganan gue di Ahmadi, gue coba buat nulis tentang judul di atas yang udah ada di kepala gue dari kemaren.

Ngomongin kredibilitas, pertama kali gue tersentak akan pemaknaan kata ini adalah waktu training QHSE 2 (Quality, Health,Safety and Enivironment) di SLB. Di tunjang dengan presenternya yang ganteng dan berwibawa asli Pakistan (hmm ga penting yah kayaknya hahaha). It is said that as leader has to earn their credibility as mandatory thing to earn respect and level up the quality, power and influence as a leader. In the working context, can easily be translated by if you say you would do something, than do it. If you say you will deliver, then ensure it is done.

In daily life, credibility can be simply translated into a fulfillment of those small promises and commitment ie calls, email reply, be on time, promised visits, query replies.. So if you promise a friend to meet somewhere at certain time, mean it and be there. If you escape a conversation and say you will call the person, don’t! Unless you really plan to give them a call. If your friend asking you a favor, don’t commit anything for the sake of politeness or social courtesy unless you’re willing to do it.. Don’t underestimate anyone’s mind by simply thought that this is just a small thing. You will never know how much those un-met commitment affect them, cause there’s no way you know all the stories behind what you see.

Those not met commitment no matter how small it is will get you back someday somehow. Well.. last week I got slapped on my face because of this lack of commitment. I casually promise my friend to get a template of business plan, never know how much this meant to this person, I kept delaying in sending the template. There’s always excuses, works, meetings, deadline, tired, overlook, missed, etc.. but the truth is I don’t prioritize enough and kind of underestimating the need of my friend with the justification that this person will also look for it from somewhere else. It doesn’t matter what the other person does, once you gave them your word, honor it ! You don’t want to be in the same shit of being in other person shoes where you have someone else bailed out from their commitment. Well taking ownership of your commitment doesn’t necessarily mean that you will escape the shit someday, but at least you don’t contribute to that kind shit.. This thing may end up ugly by losing your best friend eventually.. and that will be too much to pay for such a silly negligence don’t you think?

Well… let’s get started..