Hire Power with Kim Frost

43. When Your Team Has Lost Trust in You (And What to Do About It)


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What do you do when your team has lost trust in you? Not in a dramatic blow-up way—in the subtle, dangerous way. The quiet resistance. The lack of follow-through. The nodding in meetings that leads nowhere.

This episode gets into the real reasons trust erodes, the signs you're losing it, and the three non-negotiables for rebuilding it. This isn't soft leadership talk—trust is your team's operating system, and without it, nothing else works.


In this episode:

  • Why trust breaks down (and it's not usually the decision itself)
  • The three ways most leaders respond when trust erodes—and why none of them work
  • Accountability, consistency, transparency: what they actually mean in practice
  • How to assess whether your team really trusts you (hint: watch what's not being said)
  • Why trust flows in all directions—and how your leadership behavior impacts the entire organization
  • The uncomfortable truth: if your team doesn't trust you, it's a behavior problem, not a communication problem
  • Preview: Next week we flip this—what do you do when you don't trust your CEO?

 

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Hire Power is for founders, CEOs, VPs, and HR leaders ready to hire smarter and lead better. Hosted by Kim Frost, founder of Frost Connections. Real talk on leadership in 20 minutes or less.

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