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Episode Number: 70

Date: January 20, 2025

Duration: 27:17

Host Contact Information

Host: Justin Deese

Website: JustinDeese.com

Contact: Justin@JustinDeese.com

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Summary

In this episode of the Freedom Blueprint podcast, Justin Deese explores the critical role of trust in leadership. He discusses the current state of trust in society, the consequences of a lack of trust within teams, and practical strategies for building trust, including setting clear expectations, accountability, and conducting one-on-one meetings. The conversation emphasizes that effective leadership hinges on understanding and connecting with team members, ultimately leading to a more productive and engaged workforce.

Takeaways

Trust is foundational in leadership and relationships.
Current societal trust levels are alarmingly low.
Lack of trust leads to high turnover and disengagement.
Clear expectations are essential for team trust.
Accountability should be balanced with recognition of achievements.
Consistency in messaging builds trust over time.
Empathy and open communication are vital for leaders.
Training and empowering team members fosters trust.
Integrity and authenticity are crucial for effective leadership.
One-on-ones can significantly enhance team dynamics and trust.

Chapters

00:00 The Importance of Trust in Leadership

02:11 Current State of Trust in Society

05:57 Consequences of Lack of Trust

09:37 Building Trust with Your Team

15:13 The Role of One-on-Ones in Leadership

27:04 Final Thoughts on Leadership and Trust

Keywords

leadership, trust, team dynamics, communication, accountability, empathy, one-on-ones, management, productivity, growth

Transcript

Justin Deese (00:23)

Welcome to another episode of Freedom Blueprint podcast. Happy Monday. If you're listening to this episode, the day it drops, if not happy, whatever day you're listening, I hope you're having an amazing day and listen today's episode. We're going to get into a pretty big question here, which is, is trust important in leadership? Right? Is, is it actually important?

And really today we're going to dive into a little bit more of that topic on the heart of trust in leadership. So, but hang on tight because before we jump into that, I want to give you a free gift. So I have a new ebook that is just come out. It's called from pipe dreams to pay day. And if you want to pick up a free copy, you can just text the word ebook to 8 5 0 7 5 0 5 5 0 5

Again, that number is 850-750-5505 and text the word ebook and you'll get a free copy of that book. I gotta tell you, it's a pretty good ebook. I mean, I'm certainly I'm biased, but it was a fun project. As most of you know, my wife and I wrote a book. Gosh, it's almost been five years ago now that we released the book called When Your Business Partner Is Your Spouse. I will tell you writing an ebook is a much shorter journey than

than the other book, but there's a ton of value in it. It's not a super long read. I think there's a lot of really good content. I was trying to keep it really short and concise. So check it out again. Text the word ebook to 850-750-5505. So let's jump in today's topic. And today's topic is, is trust important in leadership?

And I think if we, you know, it kind of first, if you hear that, you just automatically go away. Yeah, of course it is. But, but is it really right? I mean, we hear a lot of things about trust being, you know, the foundation of really any kind of relationship whatsoever. But, but I wanted to dive in a little bit of, on the side of leadership, cause from a relationship, obviously trust is, I mean, that could be the foundation of, of, I can't think of a relationship that that's not, but again,

leadership is a little bit of a different animal. So I want to dive into that just a little bit today.

Is trust a major, is trust a major part of your leadership? How crucial is it really? Let's find out.

Truth is right now we live in a time where trust is probably at an all time low. I haven't done the research to know what percentage of whatever, but, but I think you'll probably agree with me right now. Trust is not at an all time high. It's probably more on the all time low. and the world that we live in right now. And really that's because, you know, people and organizations that we feel like that we feel like we're supposed to be able to trust.

we don't anymore. And obviously the, the big one in the room is the mainstream media. That's a big one. financial institutions now there's, there's a lot of, shenanigans we'll say, that are, that are happening there. Government politicians, like there's, there's so many different, different things that were built that were kind of born with thinking that we're supposed to trust or.

you know, growing up thinking that we're supposed to trust that if that have really started to kind of crumble over the last however many years, I don't even know how long it's been, but it's been a while. And it, and I'm sure as you heard just those couple little examples, I'm sure you have a few that you're thinking of on your list that you would give as an example of either people or organizations or foundations or whatever that you kind of have that a little bit of

trust concerns or issues with. You know, really the ones that I that I talked about before scratch.

So out of the list that I gave before, here's an interesting fact. And this is for the, for the older generation in the room. but Walter Cronkite was, was one of the first news anchored. Maybe he wasn't one of the first news anchors, but he was a big news anchors from the sixties to the eighties. And he was referred to as the most trusted man in America. Now think about that. Now, when you think about news anchors now does most trusted in America.

even fall inside anything you would think of when it when it comes to that. I don't know.

So let's dive into a little bit of, trust and not trust. And we're going to start with, with not trust. So really, and again, I think this is a little bit of an obvious point, but I'm going to bring it up and we'll get into some, specifics on how to increase, the trust that you have going on with your team. But let's go to without trust, because I think a lot of times when people hear, when they hear this topic, they, they go, yeah, of course, that's obvious. There should be trust.

And then, and then realistically does their team trust them? And I think sometimes we don't ask the question. And I think sometimes we don't ask the question because maybe we don't want to know the truth. And really here's the deal. If we don't have trust, like if people don't have trust in their leadership, then I mean, productivity is certainly not at an all time high. Growth is not on fire and growing. And really some things that come from that are

high turnover, gosh, high turnover. We're in an industry right now where a lot of people talk about not having enough people to do the job. Right? So it's always, it's, can't find any good people and nobody wants to work and all of those things. so if you don't have trust in your people and you have high turnover, that's just going to amplify that issue. Cause you know, if you, if you have good people and they just, there's a trust breakdown there.

then they're gonna go find somewhere else to work. That's just kinda how that works. So high turnover, even the ones that stay, you never get buy-in from them. You're not gonna have buy-in if they don't trust you. Goals won't be important. Goals won't be important because realistically, there's a good chance that they're just kinda there to get a paycheck. Like they're just there getting a paycheck. And really when that kinda thing happens, there's no...

you're not getting a hundred percent of output. Like you're getting just enough for somebody to get by, which is not a win for anybody. It's, it's not a win for you as the leader. It's not a win for the team member cause they're not progressing or growing or advancing or anything like that. And the other thing is, as a leader, if you don't have a lot of trust, I'm guessing you don't share vision. but if you do share vision and they don't trust you or don't trust your vision, you're just not ever going to get any buy-in. That's just.

they're not going to buy in because they're not going to want to be a part of something that they don't trust. I will say I've, I've heard a lot of technicians, say that, that about places that they've worked, they're like, I worked in this place and they really wanted me to sell, sell, sell. And, know, I just had to be ...