Kenneth Dreyer

There is one thing people don’t seem to get in the business world, and that’s admitting their mistakes when you’ve done something wrong.

Recently I was in a situation like this. I was involved in a group at the university I go to where we all where suppose to contribute to finishing our assignment. One of my group members didn’t contribute as much as the rest of us would hope (and expect). After the assignment was finished and handed in we told this group member that we would be handing in a group evaluation form where all the group members contributing to the assignment would be discussed and rated. This really upset the non-contributing group member and this made here react in a way that gave a different outcome. Instead of admitting here mistakes, she made a lame attempt to blame us for not including here well enough. This made the rest of the group upset and ended in us rating here even worse than planned just because of here trying to put the blame on us. A different approach could have been to admit to not contributing and state that you’re sorry, something, which may have lead to getting a higher rating on the group-evolution, forms.

This is something businesses should take into consideration as well. I’ve seen it many times before. Heck, I’ve even done it before myself. I would be willing to bet that most of the time you try to avoid a situation with not being truthful, it comes back to hunt you sooner or later. As they say, you can’t run away from the paste – so why try?

If you’ve done something wrong or done a bad job and you get caught with your pants down, why would you even bother trying to come up with lame excuses? Don’t. Just admit to your mistakes, offer to fix them and get on with it!

To end it all, here is a cartoon from Glasbergen.com.

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