Confidence is Earned - May 2022

The kind of trust that is necessary to build a great team is what I call vulnerability-based trust. This is what happens when members get to a point where they are completely comfortable being transparent, honest, and naked with one another, where they say and genuinely mean things like “I screwed up,” “I need help,” “Your idea is better than mine,

“Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” She wrote the word invulnerability next to trust on the white board.

ways—also promotes greater levels of trust. Trust develops as people tackle challenges together, find common ground, and support each other’s work. Trust and action are two sides of the same coin.

Learning how to trust people, and how to allow them to trust you, is a far greater source of leverage than all the productivity tips,

need to create some shared purpose, and you need to create trust.