My original mentor used to tell me to take personal responsibility for delivering clear communication.

If you are in charge of telling people what to do, you have to take responsibility for their screw-ups if they didn’t follow your directions; because in truth, if you truly delivered perfect and clear communication, instructions, and directions, they would have been able to follow them accordingly.

It’s so easy to cast blame and judgment instead of looking within ourselves first. Of course, people are going to make mistakes, but immediately casting blame instead of self-reflection is a position of weakness.

Someone might just suck at something that comes easy to you, but be great at something else that is hard for you. You have to spend time figuring out people’s strengths and weaknesses to understand how to leverage them so everyone ends up happy.