Trust
Summary
Trust is one of the core foundations for team building. With trust, teams can go faster, soar higher, offer help when someone is falling behind, and achieve goals far beyond what any individual can do. Without trust, teams stagnate, cover their tracks, withhold information, form silos, and even sabotage their own members. Although genuine trust is built in day-to-day interactions, trust-building games can help magnify this trust. The games contained in the chapter are a useful diagnostic tool to discern the current level of trust within the group. In addition to diagnosis, these games can be used to identify what actions are necessary to build trust and conversely, to figure out which actions quickly destroy it. The best definition of trust that the author, Michael Toma has is, “Do what you say” and these games in the chapter helps the team do just that.