The Power of Team's Trust...

In my career journey till date I have been part of several teams, be it operational, administrative, academic, or even project team; I have understood that for the success of any organization team's trust factor is extremely important.

At times, you will experience the get-going vibes of your vibrant team and also you may experience sometimes the glitch in your team's functionality. But all are in the game, you can not ignore them at all. 

As rightly quoted by Simon Sinek,

"A TEAM IS NOT A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT WORK TOGETHER. 

A TEAM IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT TRUST EACH OTHER."

All the successful professional achieved their milestones not by functioning alone, but by their virtue of getting along with the team. A collaborative approach signifies the team's trust.

I assessed the following Ten Powers of Team's Trust, which can make a team award winning:

➽ 1 | More of Listening than speaking:

In a team, you will always have a blend of experienced and new team members. It goes without saying that most of the time you will witness that the experienced team members are dominating over new ones. But in a balanced team where the team's trust is extremely high, all team members give the space to others, irrespective of their seniority level. In such team you will find the seniors or experienced team members prefer more of listening to their team rather speaking. It gives an amazing environment to work for.

➽ 2 | Safe Environment:

When team members have high trust on each other, influencing a member from the team is not so easy. History is evident that many external body tried to influence or trigger targeted team member's decision  or action. But it certainly fails when the team is united by trust. It creates a secure environment at work.

➽ 3 | Supporting Each Other:

A team with strong trust factor will always have the supporting hand to each other. As Napolean Hill said, "It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickly by helping others to succeed".

➽ 4 | Encouraging Others:

It is not always that you conduct a Town Hall Meet monthly or quarterly to appreciate your team members for their work, in today's date young generation needs to be appreciated at the need of the hour, not after certain period. A highly trusted team will always have 'Pat on the Back' habits among their team members. 

➽ 5 | Unbiased Work Culture:

Every organization claims that their team is unbiased, but are they? The truth comes out from their lower level employees whether it is true or not. I strongly believe that unbiased work culture is not driven by management but by the individual members in a team. When the team members vow to maintain trustworthy environment, no one can infuse with biasness. A biased work culture can not make a award winning team.

➽ 6 | Lower Criticism:

When a team doesn't support biased work culture, naturally the criticism takes it's back seat. Criticism is important to success of a team, but it has to be constructive, not based on who the team member is but on the particular behaviour of that individual. A team with high level of trust accepts the constructive criticism and does follow-up accordingly.

 

➽ 7 | Respecting Team:

A great and noticeable trait in a highly trusted team is respecting each other. They show no differences. They celebrate each victory among team members. They don't hide facts. They respect each other's expertise, skills and ability to make the changes.

➽ 8 | Frequent Win-win moments:

A trusted team will not put their members down for any reason. There is always room for letting others win. A healthy negotiation takes place to create win-win situation after discussions. No one in the team takes charge as autocratic leader.

➽ 9 | No Face-Offs:

Team with highly trust and respect will always create the culture of openness and share there space. No one will ignore others or put others in shame, as there are no dominance. There will be always an encouragement to help each other.

➽ 10 | Great Bonding:

Who does not wish to have a great bonding in a team? Everyone, I am sure. It is not just to preach as a leader of the team, but we must show the team how much we trust them. A successful team will have multi-dimensional individuals to hold the team as one through their skills, knowledge and attitude. 

A successful team will struggle, fight but continue to innovate. Successful team acknowledge, resolve the conflicts quickly. Successful team depends on 'WE' instead of 'I', where TRUST plays a very powerful role.