As a leader, it is your job to create and maintain an environment that allows the people around you to operate as a cohesive, well performing team. This means a reliable, consistent level of results, better accountability, greater commitment, and a more effective way of managing conflict, all of which establishes lasting trust.

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• Shared purpose:

The success of your team depends on a common story or narrative. It can be the classic mission statement, but the important thing is that everyone understands it.

• Communication setup:

Information is currency, and how your team shares, distributes, manages its information is key to smooth.

• Work organization:

It is important to discuss when and how things get done given the joint synchronous and asynchronous context that the work is being done in. Hand-offs, information repositories, check-ins, self-motivation all play a role here.