Today I want to share an exercise that will boost team productivity and help you get more work off your plate.

This one comes from Head Coach, Daniel Woodrum, and it works like a charm.

Even though this exercise is very simple…

It still requires some creative thinking and results are not instant.

But I guarantee that once you begin to see the effects, you’ll be glad to have this strategy in your back pocket.

Here’s Daniel:

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This past week I had a call with a client struggling to trust a couple team members. 

This is not the first time I’ve heard this before, so I started to probe and ask some questions to dig deeper.

My client said she’d lost trust in these team members because they were not performing as they should have been.

As I was sitting back letting her vent, it became apparent she was playing the blame game and not taking any sort of responsibility or ownership.

This call ended up being a great teaching moment for my client on how to build/regain trust with your team members. 

And I wanted to pay it forward and help you as well.

How many times have you said, "I don't trust [enter team member name] to do that properly"?

I bet more than you can count. I know I've been guilty of that throughout my career.

But here's the thing… what you are really saying is you don't trust yourself to properly lead your team.

You don't trust yourself to give them the right processes to follow. 

You don't trust yourself to have tough conversations when warranted.

You don't trust yourself to be able to delegate and then hold them accountable.

It's easy to blame everyone else and use the excuse, "I don't trust anyone to do it as well as I would."

What's the solution?

Go through this Trust Factor Exercise for each team member that you feel is hard to trust. 

This allows you to identify WHAT & WHY you don't trust them. 

But most importantly it allows you to take ownership and do something about it.

1) List out all your Team Members.

2) Write out WHAT you don't trust them to do.

3) Write out WHY you don't trust them to do that.

4) Write out how you are at fault for this.

5) What can you do to fix this and gain back/earn the trust?

Once you go through this exercise, I really want you to focus on #4 & #5.

Identifying how you are at fault for this immediately helps you shift your perspective and allows you to gain more control of the situation.

#5 allows you to take action to start working on gaining back/earning trust with your team members.

Please understand this is a process and won’t happen overnight.

But I promise if you go through this Trust Factor Exercise… 

You will establish more trust with your team members.

And as a result which is one of the most important indicators of your success.

Daniel Woodrum

Early To Rise, Head Coach

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These are fantastic insights...

And this is an easy exercise to get started on.

If you have a team you feel is underperforming… 

I highly recommend giving this some thought this weekend so that you can address these issues starting next week.

Success Loves Speed,

Craig