The short answer
Pick one shared space — a simple board, a weekly update, anything — and get your team to log what they're working on. That one move turns 'I have no idea what's happening' into a conversation. Visibility builds trust faster than any policy or process ever will.
You can't trust what you can't see, and you can't see what was never set up to be seen. Research on virtual and new teams points to one consistent finding: trust breaks down fastest when people don't have a shared, clear picture of who is doing what. It's not about bad intentions — it's about a missing structure. Without a regular, visible way to track work, everyone fills the silence with assumptions, and those are usually wrong.
Marcus Aurelius wrote about holding your own purpose free from compulsion. That's useful here — not as a reason to let go, but as a reminder that forcing visibility through pressure or suspicion makes things worse. The move is to create the conditions for trust, not demand it. You set up a simple system. You make it easy for people to show their work. Then you trust the system, not just your gut.
This week, pick one thing: open a shared board — a simple list of tasks and owners, nothing fancy — and ask each person to add their top two active items before your next team meeting. Don't frame it as oversight. Frame it as 'I want to make sure I'm unblocking you.' That one habit, done consistently, turns an invisible pipeline into a shared one.