Score Possibilities for - Trust
Inspiring
To build a team with a high level of trust, leaders carefully select team members who have high integrity and the skills to resolve inevitable conflict that arises, even on the best teams, from time to time. Leaders invest time and attention in building trust because they know that it is both essential and fragile. The team has clear policies and practices about gossip, confidentiality, and conflict resolution.
Accepting
Generally, the team is characterized by relationships that are honest, open, and transparent. There may be a few unresolved conflicts that erode the team’s level of trust. Sooner or later, the leader (or someone else) picks up on these and addresses them. In most cases, people see failure as a stepping stone for future success, not a tragedy to be blamed on the one who failed.
Stagnant
This team lives with significant unresolved tension. The attitude of most people on the team, though, is, “Don’t worry about it. That’s just the way life is here.” Team members see each other as trustworthy or untrustworthy, or more specifically, as good people and bad people. They form alliances, and they gossip about people who aren’t in their clique.
Discouraging
On this team, there have been serious breaches of trust, but these haven’t been adequately addressed and resolved. The simmering suspicion clouds relationships and seriously affects the team’s effectiveness. People form alliances for self-protection. Failure is blasted by those who distrust the responsible person, but the person who failed is fiercely defended by those in his alliance. People spend more time analyzing each other, taking sides, and gossiping than working together to fulfill God’s vision.
Toxic
Distrust is a way of life for people on this team. People see incongruence in leadership, and they feel isolated and angry. Conflict is constant and brutal, and alliances form for self-preservation. The leaders focus only on production, not on building the team. Any hint of disloyalty is dealt with harshly, so people feel very insecure.