Posts Tagged with "trust"

Reference #513: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

In the context of building a team, trust is the confidence that your peer's intentions are good. You trust them to act in good faith.Read more →

Reference #514: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

To trust is to be vulnerable. For a team to focus all their energy on achieving their task, each member must expose their weaknesses, shortcomings, requests for help, and mistakes rather than concealing them.Read more →

Reference #516: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

When building trust within a team, the leader's role is to be the first to demonstrate vulnerability. This vulnerability must be genuine.Read more →

Why don't leaders and employees understand each other?

Why do leaders sometimes get it so wrong? Why do policies created with the best of intentions meet with resistance? Why does it seem like leaders and their employees speak different languages? The answer is that employees don’t trust their leaders and don’t feel safe.Read more →