Building Trust in Teams: The Hidden Multiplier for Morale and Performance

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The Power of Peacefulness: Leading with Calm and Clarity

Sharon T McLaughlin MD FACS

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Leading with Calm and Clarity, a podcast for professional women who want to lead with purpose, emotional intelligence, and inner peace. Each episode offers evidence-based insights, and actionable tools to help you cultivate calm leadership, strengthen communication, and navigate challenges with grace. We talk about communication, emotional regulation, self-awareness, resilience, and building trust at work, all while maintaining your well-being. Listen, learn, and download your free workbook at PowerofPeacefulness.com

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Building Trust in Teams: The Hidden Multiplier for Morale and Performance

The Power of Peacefulness: Leading with Calm and Clarity

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Building Trust in Teams: The Hidden Multiplier for Morale and Performance

Building Trust in Teams: The Hidden Multiplier for Morale and Performance

Welcome back to the Power of Peacefulness Podcast, the space for professional women who want to cultivate inner peace while growing in their careers, relationships, and personal lives.

In today’s episode, we’re diving into one of the most overlooked foundations of high-performing teams: trust. Not the surface-level kind you build with icebreakers or awkward trust falls, but the evidence-based, research-backed kind that drives morale, performance, and innovation in the workplace.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

The Science of Trust: What decades of organizational research, meta-analyses, and Google’s Project Aristotle reveal about why trust is the single biggest predictor of team success.
The ABI Framework: Ability, Benevolence, and Integrity—the three qualities that build (or break) trust between colleagues.
Psychological Safety: Why creating an environment where people feel safe to speak up is the ultimate competitive advantage.
A 5-Stage Roadmap: Practical, actionable strategies leaders and teams can use today to build lasting trust—from leader transparency scripts to blameless learning reviews.
Real-World Examples: How one product team rebuilt morale and performance within 60 days by applying these trust-building practices.
Common Pitfalls: What to avoid if you don’t want your trust initiatives to backfire.

Whether you’re leading a team or working within one, today’s conversation will give you both the evidence and the practical steps to make your workplace safer, stronger, and more effective.

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Google’s Project Aristotle on team effectiveness
Gallup research on employee engagement and performance
Amy Edmondson’s work on psychological safety
Meta-analyses on trust and organizational outcomes (PubMed, JStor, Sage publications)

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Until next time, take a deep breath, embrace the present moment, and keep walking your path to peace.

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