BUSINESS TIPS ; 5 THINGS A LEADER MUST NOT DO TO BUILD TEAM TRUST.




For business success, leaders need to create effective teams under them. One of the characteristics of highly effective teams is a high level of trust between the team members and the team leader.

However, one of the difficult things about building trust is that it needs to be given before it is received. Showing trust takes courage, but if your employees feel that you do not trust them then this increases tension and negative “on guard” behavior in your team. If this mistrust is not tackled by the leader then it will eventually erode the spirit of the team and, ultimately, will impact on its productivity.

There are five “trust-busting” behaviours that leaders need to be aware of. These are:

1)Not telling people the truth.
Leaders who lie to their team are quickly found out. Even “white lies” can come back to haunt you. Leaders are expected to tell the truth, even if this truth is painful for their employees to hear.

2)Leaving out information
Whilst some leaders do not lie, they create mistrust by leaving out information that the team later hears about from elsewhere. Such omissions, whether intentional or just due to poor communication, reduces trust.

3)Failure to follow through with commitments and obligations.
We quickly stop trusting leaders who continually make promises they then don’t keep. Our initial disappointment quickly turns into cynical mistrust.

4)Behavior that demonstrates a double standard
A fundamental rule of leadership is that people will do what you do. If you demonstrate double standards by talking about trusting people then micro-managing them they will not trust you.

5)Keeping people off-balance by making seemingly irrational, haphazard and unexpected changes for no obvious reason.
For trust to develop people need to know that you are consistent in the way you do things. Change is difficult at the best of times, so leaders who keep people off-balance by not communicating the reasons for change are rarely trusted.

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