The Erosion of Trust in Transformation Teams The first thing most transformation leaders get wrong about team trust is treating it as something that either exists or does not. A team either trusts each other or it does not. The work is to build it, and once it is there, it is there. This is not how trust works under sustained pressure. Trust in transformation teams is dynamic. It rises and falls based on what the environment is asking of people. In the early phase of a transformation, the...