Building trust: Integrity
Integrity is how you adhere to strong moral principles and how honest you are. Integrity is hard to judge and critical for trust building.
A lot of behaviors at work are seen as instrumental and strategic, leaving people ambiguous about whether actions are coming from underlying values or merely a façade. Thus, the more opportunities you have to articulate your values explicitly and to allow team members to see your values in action, the more likely they will have faith in you and invest their trust in you.
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- It usually develops after you and another person have spent some time interacting and assessing each other’s character.
- Three of the most readable indicators of trust: Competence, Benevolence and Integrity.
- If all goes well and that trust builds, you start to feel psychologically safe and can form a stable belief about one another.
- Remote work has made all of this even more difficult to do.
Benevolence is the quality of being well-meaning and the degree to which you have others interests at heart.
Other will grow to trust you based on the extent to which they believe you care about their interests, and have the motivation to go beyond your self-needs to cater to the team’s needs.
Competence is your ability to do something efficiently and successfully. When others perceive you as competent, they believe that you have the skills and knowledge to do what you say you will.
This allows them to perceive you as dependable, reliable, and predictable — all of which are essential drivers of trust.
Many of us are interacting through our screens and working on hybrid teams with people located in various areas of the world who we’re not likely to meet face-to-face anytime soon. We lack the luxury of regularly observing our peers in-person, making it harder to gauge their intentions, values, and characters (and vice versa).
This is a problem. Without it, you may not feel comfortable bringing your full self to work.
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... that's capable of executing in a remote setup:
- Hire doers: they will get stuff done even if they are working from a secluded island.
- Hire people you can trust. And trust the people you hire;
- Hire people who cand write: communication is one of the most important parts of a remote team - good writers are critical to a team's success.
- Hire people who are ok without a social workplace.
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