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Five Strategies for Building Trust

If trust is an issue in your organization, make the commitment today to implement the following trust-building strategies:

1. Build your personal integrity - Having personal integrity demands that you be an authentic leader, one who knows herself and operates in concert with personal values. This includes keeping promises and always telling the truth, no matter how difficult it might be.
2. Communicate the vision and values of the organization - Communication provides the artery for information and truth. By communicating the organization's vision and values, management defines where it's going and how it plans on getting there.
3. Treat all employees as equal partners - Trust is established when even the newest rookie, part-timer, and lowest paid employee all feel that they are important members of the team. To achieve this, management must be visible and involved, taking the time to meet employees and solicit their opinions and ideas, giving recognition and credit for their hard work and creativity.
4. Place a priority on shared goals over personal ones - When employees feel everyone is pulling together to accomplish a shared vision, rather than a series of personal agendas, trust results. This is the essence of teamwork. When the players trust one another, a team really works.
5. Do what's right, regardless of personal risk - We all know intuitively what's "right" in nearly every situation. Following this instinctive sense, and ignoring any personal consequences, will nearly always create respect from those around us; from this respect will come trust.

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