What Does Trust Actually Mean to You?

Trust within a team is a critical ingredient to creating a high performing culture and a real key to commercial success, and yet, so many teams leave it to chance, consciously denying the underlying issues, avoiding the difficult conversations. Blaming personality clashes rather than the culture that has fostered it.

Effort is invested instead to pushing harder, being ‘right’, than really listening and providing critique than healthy feedback to people open to hear it.

Lack of trust undermines any strategy, any culture and any plan to create a team that’s the best it can be.

How do you know you have real Trust within your team? What does Trust actually mean to you?

What untapped capability and effort do you miss out on not working on this side of a team’s culture?

How much time is wasted on individuals being right versus being wrong, being good v being bad, justifying themselves and undermining others?

Have you been a part of a team that had high levels of trust and teams where people second guessed other colleagues motives? How does it feel at either end of that spectrum?

There are ways to genuinely shift the culture of a team to raise levels of trust and create a truly high performing team. Sports and Military teams at the highest levels use it day in day out. Highly successful teams have proven this to be a significant factor.

PS. Taking the team out for drinks at the local pub won't fix it either.