4 Speed up leader–team bonding

As time passes, you and your team will eventually bond. You begin to trust them, they begin to trust you. For example, a candid remark by you is not taken so personally when team members eventually realise that you are candid with everyone. So you could just wait for time to elapse whilst everyone gets to know each other and feel comfortable working together. Or you can consciously try to speed up the leader–team bonding process in the next 100 days, in the pursuit of faster outcomes. The faster the bond grows between leader and team, the more accelerated the leader–team performance will be against plan.

The fastest way to break down barriers and build trust between you as leader and your team is quite simply down ...

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