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3 Simple Ways to Build Trust on Your Team
One of my favorite job perks of working as an executive recruiter with Y Scouts is mining leadership brains for philosophical gold every day. Of course my primary purpose in having these exploratory conversations with potential candidates is to see if they are values-aligned with who our clients are looking for, but speaking with leaders every day also brings me a sense of “smart by association.” I soak up whatever I can about the frameworks leaders use to drive results, learn relentlessly, and develop others.
In recent conversations, I’ve picked up a lot about how conscious leaders lead. I say “conscious” because often there’s a point in someone’s career when they realize what it really means to be a leader; when they start seeing themselves as a “leader of people” for the first time. This leadership awakening can happen years after someone first received the promotion that denoted leadership status on paper.
I’m not sure who originated the following quote, but I found this elongated version on the Trillium Family Services Facebook page through a Google search,
“Change moves at the speed of trust, and trust moves at the speed of relationships.”
The New Year often means change. As a conscious leader, make sure you’re doing the change pre-work…
