Building Trust in Small Businesses with Pepper Pastor

Organizational Psychologist, Pepper Pastor loves working with creatives, millennials, and business leaders. Her goal is to help individuals, teams, and organizations recognize their key competencies ideal for advancement by supporting their objectives through assessments. She believes in a transparent path of leadership, leadership qualities, including the skills and values, should be clearly defined and attainable. Pepper specializes in talent development, high-performance individuals, Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, and psychologically safe work environments. Her research interests include creativity for motivation and performance, curiosity, and neurological regulation of emotion and cognition.

• Organizational psychologist Pepper Pastor discusses the importance of building trust in small businesses
• Small businesses lack resources and support, making navigating obstacles more challenging.
• Building a high trust culture requires everyone in the organization to work together.
• Even one person can make a difference in creating a high trust culture, and it doesn't always have to be the owner.
• Trust is about having a dance where both parties take turns leading and following.
• Autonomy is a key indicator of trust, as employees want to be able to do their jobs effectively without being micromanaged.
• Building trust involves being the bigger person and creating psychological safety by treating others respectfully.
• By building trust, organizations can help their employees thrive and ultimately succeed.

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