Your business is your baby, and it’s not always easy to trust people with your baby. However, if you want your business to be successful, you need to pull out all the stops and start trusting people that you’ve never met. You cannot always be in control of the level of trust in your organization, but you can be in control of how you promote workplace trust. The environment in which you run your business is an important one; and building trust between you and your staff is vital if you hope to be successful.

Business leaders who trust their staff are those who have staff that work better, work harder and work to keep that level of trust higher. Destroying and then rebuilding trust allows you to see what works for you and your employees, but can you really trust the people that you work with? Do you know that they won’t be getting into your business data and stealing it? Are you 100% sure that they are the right people that you hired?

So, with those questions in mind, let’s think about how you can start to build trust at work so that everyone can work together well.

• Hire and promote within. So, if you have a position within the company for someone to step up into, let them step into it. Promoting exceptional people from within will build their trust and show them that you know who they are and what they can do.
• Train and trust only a select few with your network security. It doesn’t mean that you don’t trust everyone, it just means that you put your faith in the professionals like spectrumwise.com/ to run your IT security. This way, you will be able to know when there are people within your business who are putting you at risk.
• Develop employees as much as possible, providing them with as much training and information as possible so that they can remain at the top of their game.
• Keep every promise you make. Don’t ever promise something that you cannot deliver. When you say something, your staff are relying on you to mean it, and so they should. You are the person that they look up to, and if they can’t do that then you have no business being a business leader.
• Always confront the harder issues diplomatically. Hiring is easier than firing, and disciplining staff is difficult at times. However, it must be done and you need to be as diplomatic as possible when it comes down to it.
• Protect your employees by encouraging a positive environment and not one that relies on gossip.
• There cannot be a blame game on the workplace floor. Any suspicions you have about employee activity should be handled with discretion in your office, not talked about on the office floor.

Trust is something you build slowly, not something that you gain immediately. Don’t be afraid to confront issues in the same way you would praise something good!