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One of the key outcomes of good leadership skills is motivating employee performance for without motivation, it is impossible to achieve goals or success. Does trust play an important role in motivation of performance?

Have you ever worked in a place where all your co-workers compete fiercely for a promotion or the good eye of the boss? In such places, there is a chance that individuals won’t have success for one teammate would do anything, and take the credit even if it wasn’t theirs to take. There is no team spirit, there is no motivation

What happens in such work places? People do not like to stay and work in an environment of mistrust and treachery; they normally move on at the first opportunity they get.  This is where good leadership skills work to build trust vertically and horizontally. It is as important to trust your colleagues as it is important to trust your boss and leader. You can achieve success only if you have your team’s  trust and they are 200% with you, and that can happen only when you can inspire their trust 200%.

Why Trust Is So Important?

Your employees would not do their best for you, until they trust you are not exploiting them. Only when they know for sure that you have their best interest at your heart, they will give you all they have.

It is trust that you are leading them to greatness (or success) that makes them want to follow you, support you, do the impossible with you and for you.

It is trust that you care for them as much as you care for yourself and the organizations that keeps them loyal and motivated even when the rewards and recognition are not too great.

It is trust that you see the best in them and are genuinely helping them to grow that makes your employees maintain a positive attitude about themselves and others at work.

How Do You Build Trust?

One of the good leadership skills that most leaders use to build trust is under-promise and over-delivery. Never promise anything that you do not plan to honor. Your people will be observing you at all times, and how you deliver on your promises is a very important building block of team spirit.

Another among the most trusted tools for motivating employee performance is to genuinely care. In Japan, leaders know the names of each member of the families of their employees and the problems and happiness they have. They always start discussions by first talking about family matters; in turn the employees would gladly give their lives for the leader. The leader knows how to build and hold the trust of their employees – and that is much more than just good communication skills.

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