As a leader, why should you care about fostering a high trust environment for your teams? High trust teams are also high performance teams. Why is this true?
Consider your own situation for a moment. When you trust someone, you are more likely to be forgiving, you are more willing to take risks and share accountability with them. In an atmosphere of high trust created by a high-performance leader, you will stretch yourself because you know someone you trust is there to catch you.
HOW DO HIGH PERFORMANCE LEADERS CREATE TRUST?
High trust, high performance leaders develop leaders and teams in their corner who will reliably provide helpful advice and counsel to protect you, knock off rough edges and save you face.
WHAT ARE THE INDICATORS OF A HIGH TRUST WORK ENVIRONMENT?
In a high trust environment, the need for you to micro–manage gets released along with the creative energy that is tied up with those kinds of non-value add activities. When trust flourishes, so does your engagement with the task at hand, other team members, and your customers. By establishing a high trust environment you gain a larger span of control, improve internal collaboration, and increase fun everybody having fun while producing great results.
WHAT ARE THE INDICATORS OF A LOW TRUST WORK ENVIRONMENT?
In contrast, a low trust environment shows up in terms of micro-management and restrictive rules; low internal trust drives out initiative and empowerment. The opposite of high performance leading creates a downward loop of distrust, blame, defensiveness and the destruction of motivation.
Q: Where would you rather contribute your time and talent?
A: Working with a high trust, high performance leader! Your team feels the same way you do!
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BENEFITS OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP
As the high performance leader, it is your responsibility to foster a high trust environment in order to unleash high performance:
- As you become a high trust, high performance leader, your business unit or division will become the de facto excellence model.
- Your career takes off. Your career trajectory continues to improve as your leaders and teams become more successful.
- You will become a talent magnet for upwardly mobile high performers and stable, hard working team members who want to be trusted and trust their leader.
- You will foster a virtuous loop of trans-formative change simply by following the process to build a high trust work environment.
HOW DO YOU TO BUILD TRUST WITH A HIGH PERFORMING TEAM?
Your leadership style matters.
- Ask questions, before jumping to conclusions
- Give credit to all team members involved
- Gently hold others accountable
- Coach them to their greatness
- Develop and engage your team’s skills.
Leadership development and team building programs help you foster the high–trust work environment necessary to be a high performance leader. Contact us for a discussion on how to get your leadership career moving by seeding trust.
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