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How Managers Build Trust In Teams - 5 Practical Ways to Build Trust · Enhance.training

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  SPEAKER_00: How managers build trust in teams matters.
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  SPEAKER_00: Being able to build trust quickly is more than just a skill.
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  SPEAKER_00: Building trust starts with your approach to the team, what you believe in and how you display this with your team as much as what you say and do.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you don't have the trust of your team, you don't have a team.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will struggle to lead people who don't trust you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'll struggle to maintain or improve team performance, and you will struggle to do your job as a manager.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trust must be earned, and building trust does take work and personal commitment.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sharing tips, tricks or techniques.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am sharing trust building principles that will work with all teams and consistently over years.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can tell your team exactly what you're doing and get the same result, trust being built.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we're going to go through these five principles for how managers build trust in teams.
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  SPEAKER_00: Firstly, practice what you ask for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Secondly, tell it how it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Third, build personal connections.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fourth, champion transparency and openness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And fifth, listen and act on what your team provides.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we go through, I'll be giving you practical tips to implement so you can improve your trust building today and onwards.
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  SPEAKER_00: My name is Jess Coles.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've had a 20-year management career working in amazing companies like Innocent Drinks, EY, Williams Lee, and many others.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first principle for how managers build trust in teams is practice what you ask for.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've seen managers ask for the team to be honest and realistic, and then when answering questions two minutes later, provide a corporate tagline, what they've been told to say that they clearly don't believe in.
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  SPEAKER_00: If winning team trust is what you want, you must practice what you ask for.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you'll want your team to tell you the truth, then tell them the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: This conveys the message needed, balance with being honest with the team and keeping your bosses happy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every action, decision and behaviour you undertake communicates what you believe in to your team and those around you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ensure the actions and decisions that you take and the behaviour you display matches what you believe in.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is managing with authenticity, which in my view is absolutely critical to building trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: What you believe in and demonstrate consistently is what your team will trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another example, to be trusted as a manager, you must trust your team.
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  SPEAKER_00: Micromanagement, checking up on people every hour, not taking what they say as the truth are all actions that don't extend trust from you to your team.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're not practicing trust, how will you be trusted in return?
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  SPEAKER_00: When building team trust, think carefully about your decisions and actions before you take them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask, am I making this decision or taking this action for the good of the team?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you consistently make decisions and take actions that help the team, that move team members or the whole team towards team targets, then you will build trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you make decisions or take actions to help yourself, to advance your career or to protect yourself rather than help the team, your team will know or find out and trust will be damaged or destroyed.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have no trust, you have no team.
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  SPEAKER_00: So practice what you ask for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do your best to live the rules that you set for your team, lead by example and do what you're asking.
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  SPEAKER_00: The second principle for how managers build trust in teams is tell it how it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really like to know where I stand.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I'm doing a rubbish job, I want to know so I can change what I'm doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I'm doing really well, then I want to know why I'm doing well so I can do more of it in the right context.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're not prepared to share what you think and believe in, then how will your team trust you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course you have to share what you think diplomatically.
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  SPEAKER_00: You need to be empathetic, you need to be considerate, be all those and still be true to yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: When a team member is not doing well, tell them how they can improve in private and make the time to help them improve.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be specific and be helpful and tell it how it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: When creating trust at work, you should also be aware of when you mess up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Admit your mistakes honestly, admit you have doubts about what you've been asked to do by others.
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  SPEAKER_00: Explain the true extent of the challenge being faced by the team or by you.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a balance between sharing errors and mistakes and looking incompetent or displaying too much weakness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep on the right side of this line, and you'll build a lot of trust with your team by showing some of your weaknesses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell it how it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the situation is positive, shout about it from the rooftops.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the situation is negative, be careful how you communicate the message while still telling it how it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Being open and honest while being true to yourself creates a lot of trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: The third principle for how managers build trust in teams is build personal connections.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trusting someone to do a task is quite different from trusting the other person to look after us as a person.
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  SPEAKER_00: For example, I thought my worst boss was great at many of the tasks he needed to do in his job, and I trusted in how well he would do them.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't trust him to help me to look out for me in the slightest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Same two people, two very different levels of trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: In my view, to be a good manager or leader, building trust on a personal level is way more important than building trust in your professional skills or technical competence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, the latter counts and are important.
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  SPEAKER_00: Consistently demonstrating that you care about your team members, that you keep their interests in mind in making decisions, that you go out of your way to help them or have their back, even if it costs you personally, is key in how managers build trust in teams.
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  SPEAKER_00: So get your mindset and approach to your team really clear in your own mind and make sure it's focused on helping team members and the team overall.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then work to help and support team members.
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  SPEAKER_00: Show you're willing to protect them from the politics, your unreasonable demands, etc.
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  SPEAKER_00: Show you want to help them move their careers forward at a pace that suits them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Work to consistently demonstrate that you are working for the interests of the team and when aligned, the interests of the individual in your team.
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  SPEAKER_00: Build personal connections with your team and show them that they can trust you to look after their interests.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fourth principle for how to managers build trust in teams is to champion transparency and openness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Work with your team to narrow down what tasks, activities and projects make a difference to the team's results and how the team is going to reach and beat targets.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you can align the team's roles and responsibilities clearly with how the team is going to meet and beat team targets.
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  SPEAKER_00: Work to educate the team in what matters to the team's performance and how each person can contribute to that performance.
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  SPEAKER_00: When every team member understands the what and the why, then work on creating open and transparent measurement of progress towards team targets.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are several reasons for creating measurement.
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  SPEAKER_00: Firstly, numbers are clear-cut, unlike opinions, everyone will know how they are doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Secondly, you tap into peer pressure.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one likes letting team members down or not pulling their weight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Third, you and the rest of the team can spot problems quickly and step in to help equally quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Creating transparency and openness in a team is a big step towards building trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everyone is looking at the same information and making judgments and decisions based on the same information.
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  SPEAKER_00: The team can see that the data is telling them the same thing you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: The more consistent the picture, the more trust you build and the quicker you build it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fifth principle for how managers build trust in teams is to listen and act on what your team provides.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a manager, listening to your team and acting on what they tell you is priceless.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are closer to the action than you are likely to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will be the first to spot problems and probably be able to create good solutions or at least input into creating good solutions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listening to what they tell you and acting on the issues or suggestions provided is a great way of building team trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are taking team members seriously.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are showing you value their ideas, opinions, and solutions by acting on them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Picture this scenario.
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  SPEAKER_00: A team member has a problem, comes over and tells you about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You ask questions to understand more about the problem and check on the data to make sure you're being told the complete picture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you work to get the problem solved permanently.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about the messages that you are sending.
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  SPEAKER_00: The messages will include, you know, firstly, your problems are important to me and I will work to solve them with you or for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Secondly, I trust you to bring me the issues that you struggle to solve and that they are impacting you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Third, your issues and ideas matter, so I will listen to you and consider what you tell me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fourth, I want you and the team to do well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fifth, I want you to bring me more issues so we can solve them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sixth, I respect you as a person.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you get the idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a lot of trust being built in this simple scenario.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're looking out for them, you are helping them, you are doing what most people would think is the right thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listening and acting on what the team tells you is a great display of trust on your part of the team members, and they will trust you more for taking sensible, fair action as a result.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listening is a more important management skill than giving great speeches, by far, in my opinion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen to your team.
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  SPEAKER_00: In summary, there is a lot that goes into how leaders build trust in teams.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gaining trust at work is more about what you believe in, the actions and decisions you take and the behaviours you display than about what you say.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be true to your beliefs while also balancing what you need to do in your job as a manager.
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  SPEAKER_00: Being authentic to yourself is a key part of building team trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pay a lot of attention to your actions, decisions and behaviours.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each is communicating what you believe and think to your team.
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  SPEAKER_00: The five principles we have been through to get your team to trust you are, firstly, practice what you ask for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Secondly, tell it how it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Third, build personal connections, fourth, champion transparency and openness, and fifth, listen and act on what your team provides.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do visit us at enhanced.training and use all the free booklets and webinars to help you get more from your team and build a lot of trust in the process.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have any questions on how managers build trust in teams, please email me at support at enhanced.training and I'll get back to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks very much for listening and I look forward to speaking to you again soon.