945: LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES: How Leaders Can Build Team Trust

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Over the last few years, I’ve been developing curriculum and resources that help leaders establish trust with their teams and enable teammates to build trust with one another. Because different people have different needs around trust, it can feel tricky to know exactly the right formula to help build trust with others. In spite of that, there are plenty of small things you can do every single day to help people understand who you are, how you operate, how you hold space for others, and how you navigate messiness that will inevitably help you build trust in any relationship. When people understand these pieces of you, they have the information they need to know if you are someone they can trust over the long haul. In this episode, we explore what a lack of trust looks like in an organization (perhaps this will look and feel familiar to you?). We talk about why trust is a foundational element required for high performance and a healthy culture, and what outcomes you can expect when you take the time to build trust within a team environment. Then, I give you simple, practical steps you can take to start building more trust today, no matter the current state of your team or organization. There is a common misconception that trust and the vulnerability required to build it are “soft,” but I would like to invite you to view trust as one of your key strategies for building authentic, meaningful relationships that yield great outcomes. Episode Highlights: 00:00 Building Trust: An Introduction 02:49 The Importance of Trust in Teams 06:05 Signs of a Lack of Trust 12:06 Leadership's Role in Trust Building 15:51 Practical Steps to Build Trust 21:05 The Outcomes of Teams that Trust 25:47 How to Run Team Trust Diagnostics 29:59 Connecting Values Around Trust to Action Links Mentioned: Hire me to speak: saradean.com/speaking Coach with me: https://saradean.com/executive-coaching-services Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saradeanspeaks Watch Shameless Leadership episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@saradeanspeaks Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.7	Welcome to shameless leadership. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. This show is for women, transgender people, non-binary folks, as well as allies, who are committed to advancing their leadership while also advancing the leadership of those around them. In each episode, we will offer practical tips, leadership strategies, and inspiring stories to help you become a more confident, compassionate,
0:54.9	and inclusive leader. The truth is, you were born to lead. What might happen for you if you
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1:05.5	Hello, shameless leaders. I'm so happy that you're here and I'm excited to dive into our topic
1:09.9	today. We're going to be talking about how to build trust on your team. I'm talking about this today because over the
1:15.4	last couple of years, two to three years, I've had the opportunity to build out a lot of curriculum
1:19.5	and do different presentations and engage in organizations in different ways where I have
1:24.4	talked about trust building in a million different ways from a million different angles and I've had the opportunity to build out step by step kind of module-based
1:31.7	curriculum. And as I was working on some of this for a prospective client just this week and
1:36.9	like really digging deep into it, I thought, why haven't I done an episode about this? And I
1:41.3	recognize how valuable it is to talk about this in a really tactical way. So when we
1:46.0	think about building trust, that can seem a little obscure. It's like how do we build something that
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