As A Manager How To Lose The Trust Of Your Team
One simple way to ensure your team don’t believe in you
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2 min readDec 4, 2024
It doesn’t matter how you’ve been in a role in an organization, you can quickly tell if your line manager is a good manager or not, and it’s usually because of one thing …
Does your line manager keep their word?
“I believe in you and what you’re doing”
Only for it to be followed my a micro-managing approach to your daily tasks.
“Team activities are sacred”
Only for the team meeting to be cancelled at the last minute for something else.
“Come to me with your ideas and suggestions”
Only for these to be ignored and never get considered.
“We’re a team and succeed and fail together”
Only for the first problem to be encountered with “why did you …”
As a line manager, once your team don’t think you’re going to do what you say, then they’ll not believe in anything you suggest, approach things with a feeling of apathy and a resignation of “what’s the point?”.
