The Trust Factor: The Essential Ingredient to Team Success

Hello and welcome to Episode 172 of the People Powered Business Podcast.

Today we’re talking trust, and why it’s so important to your teams success. Specifically in today’s episode we’re looking at why:

• Your team need to trust you;
• You need to trust your team;
• your team need to trust each other.

When your team don’t trust you as the leader the results will be increased turnover, under-performance, gossip and toxicity, morale and motivation will be low, they don’t work together and essentially nothing is good.

Getting your people to trust you isn’t that difficult, it’s doing the simple things consistently. Follow through on your promises, take action when you should, being honest, communicating and treat people fairly.

Secondly, you need to trust your team. If you don’t trust your team, you’ll be constantly deciding to do things yourself and / or micromanage, which will hold your business back. If you’re feeling like you don’t trust your team, you may need to consider whether the issue is actually you – are you being unrealistic or a control freak for example?

Finally, but critically, tour team need to trust each other. If your team don’t trust each other, you’ll find yourself constantly dealing with conflict, dealing with whinging, and the place will just ‘feel’ flat. As Simon Sinek says, a team  isn’t a group of people who work together, it’s a group of people who trust each other. So without trust do you even really have a team?

I’d love to hear about what you’re doing to build trust in your team, so I’d love you to join us inside our free Facebook Group, HR Support for Australian Businesses, so I can learn more about what’s working for you and any challenges you might be having.

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