Trust enables you to encourage other team members to use their skills and abilities to help move the entire team toward reaching its goal.  When you display trust in others, showing them that you believe in them and that you have confidence in their skills and abilities to contribute to the team’s success, they will trust and encourage you to use your skills and abilities to help reach the goal.

Mutual trust among all the team players creates congruency in thought, ambition, desire, and action. Teamwork bolstered by trust minimizes stress, eliminates misunderstandings, and saves time as you get more done. When you have team members who trust each other, you do not need to have lengthy conversations.  Rather, you can almost speak in shorthand. These qualities in turn create synergy – the phenomenon that enables team members working together to accomplish much more than if they worked solo. 

Working in a climate of trust reduces stress and enables energy to be used more constructively. If two people in a rowboat paddle randomly, they expend twice the energy to get half the results. But if they paddle in sync, they double their speed with half the effort. The exact same principle applies in any organization when team members work together with a high level of trust. They work together more efficiently and effectively because they know they can trust the other team members to do their part. Their loyalty grows, and their level of job satisfaction increases. When workers are doing their best to contribute to the success of the team and they are enjoying their jobs, the result is always a higher level of success.

Trust is essential to reach the goal, to get the job done. Like any worthwhile accomplishment, there are no shortcuts to establish trust:
•  Developing trust takes time, effort, and commitment.
•  Building trust means doing what is right even when it is difficult to do.
•  Trust means encouraging other team members even when you do not feel like it.
•  Trust means always doing your best and not letting the team down.

These increased levels of synergy and success are not limited to the work team;  they expand into every other area of the organization.