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Ask your team their opinions about the corporate goals and the plans to achieve them. Let the team shape the solution. Get their buy-in, and they will knock your socks off. We've all been part of a high-performing team in our careers. Teams that have a clear vision, trust, and few roadblocks perform at exceptionally high levels. And let's be honest: Do you think a network engineer who has to record the time they spent in a fire drill is going to spend their personal time thinking of a more reliable way to route traffic in your network?

Trusting your team is critical and a core part of being successful. However, to be trusted, they must be trustworthy. If you have team members with integrity issues, they need to go. If you have team members who are undermining the new plan, they need to go.

If your boss doesn't trust you, you're going to have to move more slowly and bring them along on the journey. You could be new, your boss could be new, or you could have prior missteps that broke trust. Regardless of the reason, lack of trust has to be remedied before you can move forward.