 How often do you find yourself engaging your team by offering them the benefit of the doubt? In today's data-driven environment, asking for data is a sound and helpful habit. Articulating assumptions that go into decisions is also necessary. Leading, while offering others the benefit of the doubt, imbues your trust in your team and is different from a lack of intellectual curiosity. Leading by giving others the benefit of the doubt cultivates safe spaces for candor and meaningful questions resulting in improved team performance. Reflecting our trust to others through our own integrity can lighten cognitive overload and self-doubt. Such two-way trust may also enhance expressions of inclusion, shifting the conversation toward intellectual creativity and mission accomplishment. As a leader, offer trust to your team by judiciously giving them the benefit of the doubt. Lead well this week.