Building Trusting Teams

High trust is critical and crucial for everything. “Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.” ― Stephen M.R. Covey, The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything We do not want others to control us or micromanage us. Everything has to be win-win and built on trust. Thera are certain things money cannot buy and that's 'TRUST'. If there would be NO TRUST, then it's ONLY the hegemony of Science and Technology to 'command and control others'.

Thank you Mr.Simon for your insight. And for Trust to be built, it will take time and effort (lots). So instead, company just dont care anymore and focus on result and number. Nowadays it very rare to built trust on teams, rather just workers who work together. Most focus on number and how to advance higher by stepping on others. I just want to get this off my mind.

Thanks Simon. I've read all your books, so hurry up and write another one! Lol. I think trust has been so irreversibly broken by so many institutions and politicians, especially in health care, oil/gas and finance, that the only real solution to regain trust is a clean slate of completely new leadership, top to bottom. It's also disenfranchising to see society reward narcissism and punish integrity.

Thank you Simon for your insight! I'm omw to building trust with my team after 7 months of being lead vs team during work where the team is neglecting and disobeying the leads instructions like children even simple ones. Just after 3 weeks of being with the team to building trust by chit chatting with them everyday, concerning about them, eating with them, working with them sitting down together, now I feel the team is more "responsive" and following my instructions given to them. Gonna keep this bonding up to building greater heights! Thanks again Simon!

Without a rock solid foundation of trust supporting yourself and those you love most dearly, anything built will crack and decay due to fear and mistrust of intention.

This piece of information would really help everyone, cause trust is vital. Thanks Simon.

I understand this explanation of trust and integrity. Thank you 😊

Fantastic.. Trust is the pillar of creating great relationship! Thanks again Simon!

That's really interesting. That's exactly what happened here in New Zealand with Covid. The whole country got behind our leadership. There were mistakes but NZ knew that the decisions were being made for the right reasons. It worked in the short-medium term. Something changed after about 2 years and the country stopped listening and they had to change the strategy.

I have learned so much about managing through your books and your talks! It has changed me as a person to be a better leader.

We see this in software service incident response too. Most incidents don’t need highly structured command and control, they need collaboration and coordination support. But when diagnosis is really hard and extends over a long period of time, when plausible hypotheses to investigate are few and far between, then a much more structured command and control approach becomes valuable. Specifying specific people to do specific tasks with specific reporting/synchronisation schedules etc. It’s important we recognise these distinctions so we don’t force responses to diverse situations into a single, often inappropriate, structure. Having the ability to adapt when a situation turns out to be different from the norm does require capacity - and as Simon described, trust is one of those capacities that needs to be there (before is it needed) to enable that effective adaptation.

Trust yourself first. This means believing that if you own up to your mistakes, people will trust you

🌎🌧🌎🌧🌎🌧 When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

It’s like drug abuse in the military as well. If you seek help there is an amnesty system. You don’t get amnesty if you admit to doing drugs right before a mandatory urinalysis test.

Clear as a whistle💪❤️🪐🙌

Modern corporate management is so far away from the Corps, it is unimaginable. None of the “leaders” I have met would even qualify to attend the Basic School, let alone benefit from attendance. They are too far gone.

Yes trust is love and power!

Absolutely the case. Thank you.

Powerful... I love this!

Thank for the lesson Sir