3 Steps to Build Trust as a New Leader

 good morning. My name is Bianca Cardenas, and I am your host of next gen leaders. Today, I want to talk about something that's pretty important, which is building trust within your teams.

Let me tell you about my experience. In my last role. I went in completely committed to outshining I was going to outperform grow up very quickly and they get promoted within the first six months. This was honestly a very naive thought.

In the end. I ended up dividing myself against the most important people that I needed to get to sent me back. I regretted this. I often thought to myself, if I get another role, I am definitely not going to do this again. It's so important to be seen as someone that can work well with other people.

But I'm sure this is something that we all go into our first jobs thinking. We often think, , I really love this job.

This is something that I want to do for the rest of my life. I'm going to work my tail off. So that way I can show up in a the person they want for the next job. This could be an innocent thought at first, but what it does is between you and you actually need other people to promote within an organization.

You need to build alliances that can help you navigate your role so that where you can show up in a way that's contributing to the broader organization. And if you're coming in and acting like you're just operating within a silo. To advance to the next level. You're not going to be seen as a team player. And this is definitely someone that people don't want to promote to the going to help you with three easy steps.

That way, when you come into your next role, you're not making the same mistake that I did.

The first thing that you want to do when you come into a new company is set meetings with each person you're going to interact with on a daily basis. This does two things. One. It gives you a chance to introduce yourself. So that way you can put a face to the name of everyone that you're going to be working with. And two, it allows you to ask questions about them. You can ask about their job, what they love to do on their free time. How their job connects to your jobs.

That way you're doing everything in your power to make their job easier . So that way you can have a good relationship moving forward.

After you built relationships with everyone, the second thing you want to do is always act consistently, and this cannot be overstated. Acting consistently means that if you say you're going to do something, you better do it. It also means that you're acting in alignment with who you are. As a leader and as a person. You never want to adjust your self to different people because they'll catch onto this very quickly. What you want to do is act authentically. But just tailor your approaches, which means it's not you as a person.

It's more so your approaches to solving problems or communicating. So that way you're coming off as this is Bianca, but she's just trying. A new way of thinking about things or a new way of asking questions so make sure you're always acting consistently. So that way people can know that you are consistent.

The last thing you want to do is always make positive assumptions about what people are going through. We have to just assume that whatever they're doing is for the good of them or the good of other made this mistake plenty of times where I let my emotions

take my thinking and let it go to some strange places. It makes me see people differently and that's not what you want to do. You always want to assume that they are either. Just trying to do a good job or they're trying to show up in a way that they need to show up. You always want to assume the positive in could only create a positive feedback loop, which is what you want, you want to think positively so that people associate that with second guessing other people and having this paranoid view. It's definitely going to show off in the way that you show up.

So make sure that you're always making good assumptions and if not ask questions in a way that gets the other person. Driving the conversation. And one way you can do this is just ask very open-ended speculative good examples. Like what did you mean by that?

So by meeting with people individually. So that way you can get to know them and put a face to the actionsistently with who you are as a person. And always making positive assumptions. will help you build consistency. In your leadership, which will help you build trust over time.

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Until next time. Keeps driving, growing and leading with purpose.