Briefly discuss the importance of trust in leadership?

Trust is important in leadership because if a person is leading a group of people, that group needs to know in times of stress that its leader can make good decisions. Relating to jobs, employees need to know their designated leader can make appropriate decisions that will effect the company positively and not negatively. If they do make negative decisions, they are not only effecting their job but the jobs of his or her employees. In some case the company's business may go down and some employees may lose their jobs. Trust is important when you have a leadership position because the leader is not only representing hisself or herself, he or she is representing an entire group of people who is relying on them to do what is right.