STRATEGY
The Business Bulletin
Trust is crucial to good leadership As I reflect on where we are as organisations, hopefully having weathered the storm of the pandemic, I am more convinced than ever of the significant part which trust plays in successful and effective leadership, and therefore the teams they lead.
Marcus Buckingham who works
“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the
levels of organisations when there is
with the ADP Institute completed a
most essential ingredient in
a lack of trust. Without trust, how can
global workplace study in 2020 on
effective communication. It’s
I believe that leaders have my best
the foundational principle that
in mind? You need your employees
engagement and resilience. One of their findings around trust in leadership should make you sit up and take note. When you trust your leaders, you are more likely to be engaged and bring your best, but only 7% of those interviewed felt that they had that level of trust in their lives. This
holds all relationships.” – Stephen R. Covey Trust is the engine that relationships are built around. And the truth is that trust is crucial if we are to succeed in work.
and your colleagues to trust you. And trust means you take action that places you in the hands of others. “Trust is choosing to make something important to you vulnerable to the actions of
is the lowest it has ever been! In short,
What you can fail to appreciate at
someone else.”
organisationally, we have a trust crisis.
times is the high cost you bear at all
– Brené Brown
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