Great question!
One of the most important tasks of being an effective leader is building trust amongst you team.
A lack of trust will allow fear to become a primary motivationing factor. Your team will fear your opinions. Many will fear your decisions and recommendations. Worst of all, they will fear failure and they will likely fear you.
Fear will ultimately cripple your team.
Trust is trait that must be earned. It is something we are all told to give away cautiously and to remove expeditiously, if needed.
As a team leader, though, you can instill and respect trust with your team by doing the following:
1. Expose yourself. Open up your inner self to others. Not haphazardly, but rather in a such a manner that demonstrates honesty and humility. Your team needs to know that you are just like them. Work with your workers. Always admit your own failures. If you put up a wall around yourself, your team will too.
2. Take the hit. When something bad occurs, we are all fast to point the finger. As team leader you need to accept the responsibility for both the good and the bad, sometimes even if it's not your fault. The team will see you are willing to take one for "the team".
3. Praise your team members. As much as you can, when appropriate, make sure you praise your team members openly and in the forums. Be sure to commend their efforts and results. Never try to take sole credit for something good that the team did.
4. Remove the micro manager. Allow for freedom to explore new ideas and to be creative. If people feel that you are micro-managing them, they will stop trusting you. Leave space for failure and the opportunity to learn from failure. That leads to success.
5. Accept productive confrontation. Arguing is never good, but neither is falsely agreeing.. When there is a clash of opinion, promote collaboration. Look for solutions with the notion to solve problems.
6. Look for value in each individual person. Everyone has weaknesses, but all also have strengths. Everyone brings something different to the table. Find what is unique in each of your PSAs or CSAs and use that core strength for the good of the team.
When you build and earn trust with your team:
-->Your team can work together.
-->Member will accept their roles.
-->Team Leaders will be respected.
-->The team will then be productive.
Hope this helps! Good luck.
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Great question!
One of the most important tasks of being an effective leader is building trust amongst you team.
A lack of trust will allow fear to become a primary motivationing factor. Your team will fear your opinions. Many will fear your decisions and recommendations. Worst of all, they will fear failure and they will likely fear you.
Fear will ultimately cripple your team.
Trust is trait that must be earned. It is something we are all told to give
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