2 Steps to Building Trust as a Manager

By | Jason | jasonlauritsen.com
One of the most common questions I get from managers and leaders is about building trust.
In most cases, they understand the importance of trust to a healthy and productive relationship with their employees, but they are stumped about how to do it or even where to start.
I think we tend to over-complicate things when we talk about trust. In my experience, there are two simple things that any manager or leader can to do have an immediate positive impact on trust with the people they lead.
First,  trust your people  (even before you have evidence that they are trustworthy).
This may be challenging if you are naturally skeptical or have been burned in the past, but one of the most powerful ways to earn trust is to first give it away.

Tell your employees that you trust them and that you will continue to trust them until they prove they are not deserving of that trust.
Demonstrate that you trust them by taking them at their word, allowing them autonomy, and assuming positive intentions when things don’t go as planned.

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