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Today, respect, trust and authority must be earned by actions and attitude, this goes both ways.  You need to have lines of communication to help and they also need to go both ways.  Here are some tips for building the trust.

Start the conversation

Starting the conversation with employees is probably the easiest way to begin to gain their trust, but it so often doesn’t happen. One to ones are a great starting point. And that’s not an inauthentic meeting that should happen to comply with a process, its sitting down with your employees on a regular basis. In doing this, you provide them with a platform for conversation and can start to build a relationship with them.  You also need to give them a chance to speak and listen.

Commit to your values

Building up a commitment around values, ethics, recognition, and empowerment will allow you to start demonstrating a basis for the conversation. It’s a way for you to show your employees that you are there, wanting to earn their trust, and it’s not something that you take for granted.

Demonstrate your values

You also need to be seen to be visibly leading and demonstrating the values that you’ve talked about and form your conversations. Take your time to engage with your employees about those values so that they can fully understand them. Once you’ve put it into practice it’s important to continue to review things and keep discussions going.

It is important to remember that establishing trust with anyone can take time. Once you’ve started that process, continue to re-establish it. Keep moving over the same ground and remember that each employee needs to see and hear things in different ways.

It is all about being true to yourself, values and your employees and leading by example.

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