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TEAM, TIME, & TRUST
Leadership teams that build trust are teams that spend time together. There is no substitute for this time together. Trust is dependent upon a narrative of events that builds up the team’s identity and confidence. Those events will be both serious and playful. The serious events will be the ones in which the team worked through crisis and brutally honest sharing. The playful events will be the ones in which the team learned about one another’s gifts, personalities, and approaches to life. From Leading the Team-Based Church, by George Cladis, published by Leadership Network, Josey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1999, p. 121, see also the August of 1994 issue of The Pastor’s Story File: “Leadership Qualities”