How Leaders Build Trust In Teams

Trust is one of the most important elements of a team culture-and also an entire company’s culture. If people feel that they can trust you as a leader, and if they feel they can trust each other, then they communicate better, they collaborate better, they develop a sense of shared identity and shared understanding, that pushes that team to greater levels of performance. And as a leader, building trust on the team is one of your number one jobs.

In this article, we’ll cover how to build trust as a leader. Not only how to build a sense of trust between you and your people, but how to build a culture of trust on your team, and also why that’s so important.

But first, how do you measure trust?
How do you know if there’s a strong sense of trust already?

You’ve probably had someone saying they trust you, at times. You’ve probably had somebody betray your trust, at times. And that’s because, for most of us, trust is this odd intangible, almost emotional, feeling. And it’s difficult to measure. But in truth, trust is actually relatively easy to measure. Or at least the feeling of trust between two people is relatively easy to measure, if you’ve got the right equipment. What is that equipment?

Well, that’s the ability to run a blood test. You see, trust is a chemical.