After a misstep

When things do not go right, as a community leader,

1. Take ownership quickly. Decisions are never perfect. And, sometimes these decisions may bring adverse consequences. When you take responsibility for your actions, you earn trust and respect from your people and keep people stick to you even when things are not going right.
2. Be transparent. Transparency in your communication and actions further helps you to have trust and respect from the community. Also, it allows them to come forward and share their suggestions to help you make things better.  
3. Go deep with key community members. Connect with long term members and new leaders and share what is going on and what we are experiencing. It helps you to communicate clearly as they represent and share your thoughts in the community to spread the word what is going on in the community.

It helps trust building in the community as the community feels the community leader is on their toes to make things work.
 

This step is a small take-away from Community Building Course