 Engineers, it's time to build more trust in the workplace. My name is Jeff Perry. I'm the founder of More Than Engineering and leadership and career coach for engineers. As an engineering leader, it's your responsibility to build trust in your teams and the other stakeholders who you work with, with your clients, with your peers, and with your leaders, no matter where you are in the organization. Now, I want to give you three ideas, three tips on how you can build more trust with those you work with and with those you lead. Number one, trust yourself. How can you expect anyone else to trust you if you don't trust yourself? It is imperative that you believe in yourself and the value that you bring to an organization and to your clients. And if you trust yourself, people are going to feel that it becomes contagious and they're going to be much more willing to trust you. Number two, extend trust first. As a leader, it's your responsibility to lead out and to not wait for other people to take initiative. You need to be the one to first extend trust because as you extend trust, then other people will feel that, they'll appreciate that and they will feel supported and want to trust you right back. So if you can lead out and extend trust first, people are much more willing to trust you and accelerates the building of that relationship. Finally, number three, listen more and direct less. As a leader, sometimes we get caught up in just putting out the fires to telling people what we need them to do. But if we can actually spend more time listening to the people that we lead rather than talking to the people that we lead, then we can understand what they're really going through, what the real challenges are. And then when you talk and direct and teach, then you'll be able to do that from a greater place of understanding and you'll be building that trust because they will feel seen and heard all along the way. So the three tips are to trust yourself to extend trust first and to listen more and direct less. Thank you. My name is Jeff Perry and thanks for watching.