Without team trust, a church staff or ministry team simply won’t function at its best. In a Harvard Business Review blog the author quoted some dismal statistics about the workplace which probably hold true in the ministry realm as well. In this post I suggest five ways to build team trust with your team.
According to the 2013 Edleman Trust Barometer, fewer than 20Â percent of respondents believe leaders are actually telling the truth when confronted with a difficult issue in their organizations. Furthermore, a study conducted by the Human Capital Institute and Interaction Associates in 2013 found only 34Â percent of organizations had high levels of trust in the places they work. And, a paltry 38Â percent reported that their organizations had effective leadership running the show.
To cap off a small sliver of dismal data points, research firm Gallup found that over a twelve-year period between 2000 and 2012, the percentage of engaged employees in the workforce has shifted between 26% and 30%. That is, roughly 70 percent of employees in today’s organizations have spent more than a decade essentially collecting a paycheck, an almost Shakespearean spectacle of tragic ambivalence.
Wow, if only 1/3 of our church staff teams experience a high level of team trust, then we have a lot of work to do. Here are five simple ways to build trust with your team.
