How to build trust across teams
Posted by staff / May 10, 2011
For companies with many different teams working simultaneously, trust is the grease that keeps everything running smoothly. Thomas Kayser, who has 30 years of experience working with teams, offers ways to build trust in a variety of team-building aspects. For instance, here are Kayser’s tips on building trust while working together.
- Be responsive to one another’s needs by offering, and accepting, assistance.
- Welcome the messenger who brings bad news at the earliest possible opportunity because this maximizes one’s ability to deal with it.
- Form natural and informal subteams to “move the ball forward” and accomplish tasks that are critical but languishing.
- Bring potential solutions to the table along with the problem.
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These 4 pointers are valuable. "trust" is the essential T in teamwork! without work, no team can work well together!