Leadership is Trust
Today we will discuss trust as it pertains to leadership.
Leadership trust is a critical characteristic that provides foundation for influential leadership. Why would team members work with any leader without trust? Well, team members need to know they can trust their leaders to guide them towards success. Leaders can start with establishing honesty and active listening. Once leaders establish honesty with team members, they can rely on character and integrity, two characteristics mentioned in earlier blogs. Other characteristics leaders can focus on include credibility, accountability, supportiveness, clarity, competence, and empathy.
This is not by any means all inclusive but does provide a very strong core set to focus on gaining, building, and maintaining trust with team members. Leaders can be serving as well to build relationships, helping to establish team member trust. Why is serving important to building trust? It comes down to the leader’s intent. If team members identify the leader’s intent is serving to establish a strong relationship, trust becomes an outcome.
I have found that daily communications with team members on topics they enjoy can also help establish trust. How did I perform daily communications? Primarily, I would opt for simple good morning visits and just ask about team member’s interests and what the plans were for the upcoming weekend. I leveraged messenger tools and email as well. I found that investing in their interests helped me as a leader establish the trust bond.
Leaders will find that trust can be a two-way street as well when looking to deliver successful outcomes geared toward organizational vision. Leaders will find various techniques when building trust with the characteristics to continually build up established trust, but they must first focus on establishing the foundation with team members. Thoughts?
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