Are your teammates competent?

"I don’t mean would you leave your dog with them for the weekend (you don’t live near enough for that to be an issue.) I mean, do you trust them to put forth a lot of effort, do quality work, and meet deadlines? What are you basing that on? Are you suddenly second-guessing your first answer now?

One of the biggest factors in building trust is believing in the competence of the people you work with. Paradoxically, when physically separated from each other you need to have a high level of faith that everyone is doing their job, but those judgments are based on (...)"

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Author : Wayne Turmel

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