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RentDoor is building Trust ☺

Every entrepreneur wants to unlock the secret to success in business. Understandably, creating a business model forces owners to identify the tangible characteristics of successful businesses — from operations to hiring and staff size to marketing budgets. Those are all essential when building an efficient system.

But what about the intangibles?

Work ethic and creativity are often mentioned among the most important intangible aspects of achievement, but I’d like to focus on another characteristic that I find to be one of the best indicators of business success: trust.

At every stage of business growth, trust is an indispensable asset to the company itself and the people who work there. And while it’s great to have a general sense of trust in the office, I’ve identified some of the most important areas of business where building trust can make the biggest functional impact.

Trust your employees — and delegate.
One of the most common scenarios in business ownership — especially in the startup and growth phase — is the tendency for the founder to take on nearly every role. When a business gets off the ground, the owner is responsible for the daily operations of nearly every function of the company, from payroll to customer service to marketing.

Trust the opinions of others.
Beyond delegating to your staff, trust is essential within leadership as well. As you build out your executive team, there will have to be a sense of both trust and respect on both sides. Owners should understand the other executives and managers might have expertise the owner does not. In fact, that’s likely why they were hired or promoted to leadership positions in the first place. Not only does that trust involve the delegation mentioned earlier but also the opinions of those leaders as well.

Trust your vision.
This is not in combat with the previously mentioned aspects of trust, though some might see it that way. There is a difference between having confidence