As the economy warms up and as the term "Job Market" sheds its status as an oxymoron, many will look for greener workplace pastures. Top executives from the Fortune 100 set on down are aware of this, and are searching for ways to keep their best people onboard. In seeking to understand what would motivate their talent to leave them, these executives have discovered that for discontent employees, losing trust in leadership is often the last straw. Beyond this, current research is laying bare the connection between lack of transparency and lack of trust at work.

Consider what Deloitte has to say about the importance of trust in the workplace: "According to Deloitte LLP's fourth annual Ethics & Workplace Survey, one-third of employed Americans plan to look for a new job when the economy get's better. Of these respondents, 48 percent cite a loss of trust in their employer and 46 percent say that a lack of transparent communication from their company's leadership are their reasons for looking for new employment at the end of the recession." 

These findings beg the question: How does management earn the trust of its people? What kinds of actions invite trust in a workplace? At ClearGears, we believe trust is earned by regularly soliciting unfiltered feedback from your people, and then demonstrating a comittment to learn and grow from this feedback.