08/18/2022
In the fast-paced digital workplace, building trust is increasingly challenging and vital for executive leadership teams. Trust takes place between two people and must be earned. The events of this past year have only made the challenge of building trust more critical and more challenging for executive leaders. The recent 2021 Edelman Barometer study involving 28 countries and over 33,000 respondents revealed that the global pandemic, economic crisis, and social justice concerns have sped up the decline in trust globally.
Trust holds organizations together during change, making this decline particularly concerning. Furthermore, executive leaders have heightened expectations to lead on societal issues with the same energy, consideration, and passion as organizational results. As the world changes, people and organizations must change too. CEOs, CXOs, heads of business units, and top management team members are expected to be their organizations, visionary change agents.
An important question to ask about executive leadership is if an executive leader can build trust during change and be considered trustworthy?
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