Some tips on what leaders can do to signal trust in their employees, plus 7 questions to assess whether your team trusts you.
In short, trust begets trust. When people are trusted, they tend to trust in return. But people must feel trusted to reciprocate trust. Managers have to do more than trust employees; they need to show it.
https://hbr.org/2017/07/want-your-employees-to-trust-you-show-you-trust-them