If employees have to earn your trust before you give it, you are slowing your company down.
If they have to spend months cleaning the shop and taking out the trash before you’ll let them touch a machine, you’re going to be short employees who can use the machine.
If you keep everything locked up because you don’t trust people, you’ll have a culture where you have to keep everything locked up.
A leaders job is to accomplish the goals of the organization while bringing out the best in other people. People are not their best when they feel mistrusted. Trust them first.
The best way to learn if you can trust someone is to trust them. Absolutely agree.
This is absolutely true however, many go about it the opposite way round, and then they wonder why there is a culture of distrust in the group/organisation. The result is that the people then operate from a very negative place of trying to catch the boss/leader out. “Pull up. Pull up. Pull up.”