Category Archive: Trust

The Trustworthy or Toxic Assessment

High-impact conversations are built on trust.

Toxic leaders drain motivation. But trustworthy leaders have power to energize people.

How energized do people feel after conversations with you?

Take this free self-assessment to test your trustworthiness. Give it to your team members.

Respond to seven statements to evaluate your trustworthiness.

Self-Trust: Reconsidering Self-Confidence

No one will trust you until you trust yourself.

Self-trust is better than self-confidence. Ungrounded self-confidence is baseless arrogance.

Self-trust is based on self-knowledge. You need to know seven things about yourself to trust yourself.

People trust you when you trust yourself.

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Trust or Bust

Fools leave trust-building to chance.

Trust impacts response. People protect themselves from untrustworthy leaders.

Untrustworthy leaders are perceived as self-serving.

Employees in high trust environments are 50% more productive and twice as energized.

You build trust or you bust!

Discover 3 simple questions leaders must ask to elevate their leadership.

Believe in Others to Free Yourself

Competence gets in the way when you don’t believe in others. People do it themselves because they think they can do it better.

Do it with is better than do it yourself.

One-person teams are a myth.

Believe in others to free yourself. Here’s how…

Gullibility is Deadly: Practice Responsible Trust

People who see the worst in others don’t thrive in life or work.

Gullibility is deadly.

Don’t trust what people say. Trust what they do.

This post explains responsible trust.

If You Struggle to Trust People Read This

All leaders have faith in people. Cynics can’t lead. They can boss but they can’t inspire.

Distrustful people can micromanage, but they can’t engage people.

You can’t trust everyone, but you must trust people to lead.

Read about 4 ways to learn to trust people.