By building trust, a team makes conflict possible because team members do not hesitate to engage in passionate and sometimes emotional debate, knowing that they will not be punished for saying something that might otherwise be interpreted as destructive or critical. also a key to communication in marriage
Topic: team communication
Competitors not team members
Achieving vulnerability-based trust is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of a team, but that is exactly what is required.
Team openness
Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.