Trust Takes A Team From Good To Great

As an executive coach working with multiple teams across the world, it is clear to me that what differentiates good teams from great ones, is trust.
Trust comes from shared history, action, disclosure, and above all empathy.
Great leadership teams care for each other and are vested in the organisation's overall performance, not just their individual departments.
It's important for senior team members to contribute and show an interest in all aspects of the business. It is often from this place that their greatest learning and contribution can come.
Too many teams embrace mediocrity and sustain the status quo when senior members have an unwritten agreement not to inquire into the functioning of each other’s departments.
If you've recently been appointed to a senior team, get an understanding of the business as a whole.
Remember Theodore Roosevelt's words:
"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."