Leadership team members: On a scale of 1-10 how vulnerable can you be with the other leaders? Can you talk openly about mistakes and seek their advice? Or do you have to put up a good front?
Your answer is a clue to your team's relationship to trust.
When trust is strong, you can:
- Ask for help without fear
- Productively disagree
- Openly discuss mistakes and lessons learned
- Tell people when their behavior is negatively or positively impacting others
Trust spares you from wasting time pretending all is well when inside you are freaking out. Instead, you share it, knowing you’ll get support from people who want you to succeed.
Trust helps you bravely speak what often goes unspoken, so that, together, you can get to the root of challenges or disagreements and solve them.
And, it’s incredibly important for leadership teams. It has a direct impact on how well that team functions…and in turn, how all of their teams function (domino effect).
Trust also takes intention.
It can take the form of:
- Getting to know your teammates as human beings.
- Bringing your personal leadership challenges to the group for brainstorming.
- Regularly giving and receiving useful feedback to make each other better.
- Simply talking about how you are all experiencing trust now.
Imagine the impact on your teams when you, as leaders, model this trust. It's a domino effect that empowers everyone.
🚀 Ready to cultivate a more trusting and open leadership team? Let's work together to build that foundation.
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