The Deliberate Creative

Episode 28: How to Build Trust Within a Team


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This episode topic was requested by several listeners. In a recent survey, several asked how to build trust in teams. This episode introduces three ways to start building trust within you team. But first, I explain why trust matters and how it impacts creativity.
What You’ll Learn

* Two types of trust that are important to creativity
* The relationship between trust and conflict
* Three strategies you can implement to increase trust within your team.

Resources

* Take the Team Survey – support my dissertation research!
* Episode 17: Seven Norms of Collaboration
* Book: The Progress Principle by Amabile & Kramer
* Dougherty, D., & Takacs, C. H. (2004). Team play: Heedful interrelating as the boundary for innovation. Long Range Planning: International Journal of Strategic Management, 37(6), 569-590. 
* Fairchild, J., & Hunter, S. T. (2013). ‘We’ve got creative differences’: The effects of task conflict and participative safety on team creative performance. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 48(1), 64-87. 
* Peltokorpi, V., & Hasu, M. (2014). How participative safety matters more in team innovation as team size increases. Journal of Business and Psychology, 29(1), 37-45.

The Weekly Challenge
This week, try to do one of the suggestions shared in the podcast: Either implement regular meetings or set up a structured process to help team members get to know each other. How did it go? What were the results? Share in the comment section below or send me an email.
Transcript
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Transcript for Episode #28: How to Build Trust Within a Team
Hey everyone! Welcome to Episode 28. Today we are going to talk about how to build trust in your team and why it matters for creativity. But first, I have a few announcements to share. The first announcement is two days ago, I released the initial survey that is leading to the creation of a scale for teams. This is part of my dissertation research and I am so excited because today is Day Three and 391 people have already responded and taken the survey. Thank you so much if you are one of those people! I really really appreciate it! If you have not taken the survey, I would love for you to take the survey. It takes about 10 minutes and it is a survey about a team that you are on. So I will put a link on the show notes which is climerconsulting.com/028 or you could also access it at creativesynergyscale.com. Or you can find it on my Facebook page and there are some posts on Twitter. What is so cool is that some of the people who have taken the survey hav...
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