Leadership Trust

Often leadership experts look at trust as in "How do I get those that I work with to trust me?" It is my contention that trust for leaders start with the leader trusting their co-workers first. Often leaders don't trust their team members not because the team members are not trust worthy, but because the leader has issues around trust. Trust is one of the key component of leadership and if the leader does not trust their team and organization how is it possible to lead them.

Just Ask Leadership only works if you trust your team. What would be the point of asking anyone a question if you did not trust their answer? Leadership Trust starts with the leader trusting the team first. It is not about the leader earning the employees trust.

Leadership and Trust

When you walk across the street, when your speeding down the highway at 65 miles an hour, why do you trust these perfect strangers driving in front of you and beside you with your life more than you trust people on your team with your career or the entire business?

This morning I was walking my dog around Grays Bay on Lake Minnetonka, and on one side of 101 was a very narrow space for he and I to make our way without getting hit by on coming traffic. As we walked I continually focused on the drivers and how much attention or lack of attention they were giving to their driving. And I began to wonder how often we trust our lives to perfect strangers and at times perhaps even more often have a hard time trusting those we know very well.

Are you struggling with trusting others?