Can I trust you? How do you answer this kind of question with your team? It’s a question that we might not come right out and ask all the time, but it is constantly in our mind and subconscious as we deal with various working relationships. Sometimes trust can be hard for us to even describe. We know what it feels like and it’s great when it happens naturally, but what do you do when you need to earn it? Or, what happens when we had it, but the trust was broken? Can it be repaired? Trust is so critical for each one of us and if we don’t understand the process for creating and repairing trust, we find ourselves and others underperforming, stressed and disengaged. When someone asks you, “How do I know that I can trust you”, you’ll be able to answer them with a process that creates and (if necessary) repairs trust for most teams.
