033: Better Together, Part 3 - Building Team Trust

The Bill Perry Show

In this leadership podcast series, we talk about the value of working as a community collaborating as a team. In this episode, we look at how trust is built when we encourage healthy collaboration.

Loss of Trust

Much of our current work culture requires that we do more with less. This culture is placing increasingly burdensome workloads on individuals while demanding higher performance levels. A negative effect of this highly individualistic culture is the absence of deep trust.

Increase Trust, Improve Speed

The trust equation is simple: When trust goes up, so does speed, and costs come down. The opposite is also true: When trust is low, speed is low as well, and costs go up. Consider going through an airport prior to 9/11 versus today. When trust was lost, our travel times and expenses increased.

Trust and Toxicity

An absence of trust is typically marked by an increase in drama and confusion. Deep, vulnerability-based trust is the antidote for toxicity in the workplace culture. When I know you have my back, and you know I have yours, we move forward together without the constraints of suspicion and unhealthy competition.

The Kind of Trust We Need

Most teams exist at a trust level best categorized as predictive trust, meaning that the trust demonstrated is only related to predictable behavior. That kind of trust can either work for your team or against it, and when it works for you, it creates productive bonds. The kind of trust you need comes from knowing your team and peers beyond functional work performance.

Know Those You Work With

Initiate conversations that reveal heart matters. Find out what motivates and drives each individual. Is it family? Recreation? Creativity? Social justice? Getting to know your team on this level instills the confidence that you have each other’s best interests at heart. In a culture marked by deep trust, collaboration and creativity will become a competitive advantage for your vision.

Let Me Help

I can help your team accelerate the trust-building process and move you quickly to greater levels of employee engagement. Set up a time to talk with me, and let’s get your team healthy together. Here’s a link to set up a call: Complimentary Consultation

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Until next time, lead well!

Bill

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