How managers build trust in teams matters. Being able to build trust quickly is more than a skill. Building trust starts with your approach to the team, what you believe in and how you display this to your team as much as what you do and say. 

I am taking you through 5 key principles for how managers build trust in teams.

How to build trust in teams starts with what you think and what you believe. Both influence your decisions, your actions and your behaviours which is what the team see day in day out. 

 Creating trust at work is driven by the messages your decisions, your actions and your behaviours communicate about who you are and more importantly how you are going to treat the team.

 As a manager, building team trust is so much easier if everything you do is focused on helping the team do their best. Contrast to how hard it would be  winning team trust if your decisions and actions focused on helping you personally rather than the team.

 Adopt the mindset that your job as a manager is to help and support the team to do their best and you will find gaining trust at work from your team a lot quicker and easier. 

 The principles I share in this video build trust in teams, because they are honest and follow timeless social rules such as reciprocity. You can tell you team what you are doing and the result will be the same – trust will be built with the team.

 The first principle for how leaders build trust in teams is to practice what you ask for. If you want the team to tell you the truth and be realistic, then you much tell them the truth and be realistic. Do you best to live the rules you set within the team. Team pay a lot more attention to your decisions, actions and behaviours than what you say.

 The second principle to get your team to trust you is to tell it how it is. This is being trustworthy yourself and ensuring that everyone in the team knows where they stand. This is super powerful in building trust in teams when combined with diplomacy, tact, and empathy.

 The third principle for how to build trust in your team is to build personal connections. Create the conditions that make it easy for the other person to trust you as a person. Demonstrate consistently that you have their back for example. This is a different level of trust than the team trusting in your professional competence (which is also important).

 The fourth principle for how to build team trust is to champion transparency and openness. Being open is incredibly powerful when building trust within your team and between teams. There are no suspicions about being used, about fear of being hoodwinked etc. The facts and data show that what the team is being told is the truth. 

When you have an open style in terms of your communication, you build trust in the team much more easily. 

 The fifth principle for how to build trust in a team is to listen and action on what your team provides. Your team members have a lot of knowledge that you don’t. They are likely to be closer to the action that you, which means they will spot problems you won’t . They will have great ideas about how to solve those problems. You won’t find any of this out without listening to them carefully. This approach is amazing for building trust at work. 

Jess

Enhance.training