Trust your team

Team members get defensive when they get signals of lack of trust. As managers, one of the crucial things is to trust our people. Every plan we lay out, every control mechanism we identify and every decision we take in a project – there has to be an element of trust.

When we work on project, we do a collective effort to meet an objective. Teams work together for common success and trust becomes all-so-important in these cases. Performances start declining when a manager does not trust people, which is generally the starting point of all project issues. In high attrition environment, one and probably only way for long term success as a manager is to have good people and then trust them.

Whether you manage a local or an offshore team, having trust in your team improves your chances of success.

Do you trust your team? How do you instill a high trust environment? I look forward to some viewpoints.

P.S: On that point, Gautam Ghosh has some thoughts on a manager’s role in development of employees.

Update July 13th, 07: This also relates closely to what I have written in my post. “Outsourcing works better when based on trust“