Severe lack of trust can dampen any relationship, personal or professional. Friendships can end, and marriages can break due to trust issues. They can have an even worse impact on an office environment. If the head of a company has trust issues, the whole company is bound to suffer. A leader who, for instance, fears her employees could team up against her will try her level best to get them from getting too close to each other. However, this can adversely affect the work environment. If you have trust issues, use your chatting app to connect with a psychologist and set an appointment. NEEO Messenger is a chat messenger app that can help you locate other NEEO users in your vicinity. You can find other professionals working near you and connect with them to get advice using NEEO's nearby feature. Talk to people who are successfully running their businesses and ask how they treat their subordinates. Given below are some of the policies you may be implementing at work without realizing how damaging they can be for your company:

1. Employees are discouraged from taking initiatives:

When you don't trust your employees, you won't encourage them to take initiatives. You'll micromanage to ensure things are done exactly according to your instructions. Your employees will be too busy trying to prove they’re doing things by procedure rather than taking any real initiatives. Employees will bide their time until a better work opportunity comes up and when it does they won’t think twice before they leave. Share one positive quote in your official group daily using your chat messenger app and appreciate the efforts of your employees to keep them from running away.

2. Employees are burdened with too much work:

If you don't trust your employees you're very likely to overburden them with work. You'll make them work harder than is necessary so they have no time to mingle with each other. You'll often give them irrelevant tasks that have nothing to do with their job descriptions. Employees will feel dissatisfied with work and might end up offloading on one another. Those with a bit of authority will try to exploit their subordinates to shake off their workload.

3. Team members are overly competitive:

Many bosses use the divide-and-rule strategy when they want to exercise complete authority over their employees. If you’re one of those bosses, you’ll take measures to ensure your employees don’t team up against you. This might involve unfair practices such as favoring those who chum up to you and who tattle on others. But by encouraging such toxic behavior you’ll only be drawing negativity to yourself. Instead of doing their job right, employees will work harder to please you by putting each other in a bad light. Use your chatting messenger app to set things right, by encouraging team spirit. Discourage employees from playing the blame game if something goes wrong.

4. Lunch break is unreasonably short:

The one time that employees look forward to in their hectic work routines, is lunchtime. This is the time when they can sit and unwind with their colleagues while sharing a meal. However, there are workplaces where taking lunch breaks is discouraged. Employees are instructed to stay in their seats and eat in their own space. Employees will feel trapped if you implement such policies and this will harm their professional performance. Let your employees eat together and enjoy at least an hour-long lunch break.

5. An unreasonable amount of reporting:

Another strategy heads use to pressurize employees is by asking them to provide a daily work report. Heads who fear their employees might start taking them too lightly use such measures to remind everyone of their position. When your employees have to report to you every day they'll spend more time decorating their report rather than doing actual work. Use your chatting app to ask them about important tasks individually rather than demanding a daily report in a formal format. Ask for a weekly report instead.

6. Lack of transparency in meetings:

Insecure and untrusting heads don’t like to give out too much information to employees. What they do is, instead of involving everyone in their meetings they choose selective people. They don’t invite everyone to join in at the same time. Instead, they conduct meetings in small groups because they don’t want things to be too transparent. However, this practice makes employees feel alienated and demotivates them. Have a meeting start of the week, leaving no team members out, and delegate responsibilities for the week.

7. Giving no space for errors:

When you don't trust your employees with the tasks you give them, it affects your behavior towards them. If an employee makes a mistake and you insult them, they will feel demotivated. And when your employees are too afraid to make mistakes they try to go exactly by the book. They won't think out of the box or come up with creative ideas. Arrange training sessions for employees to help them learn and grow.

When you realize that trust issues are coming in the way of your company's progress, make an active effort to bring change. Start by organizing a lunch party for all your employees. Use your chat messenger app to create a chat group for all the team members. Let members of the group put their concerns forward. You can address their concerns in the group or person later. NEEO Messenger is a chatting app that lets you make crystal clear calls to everyone, anywhere in the world. Talk to your loved ones whenever you feel low or insecure, but don't let your insecurities demotivate those working for you.