{"id":2313,"date":"2014-11-18T11:37:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2014-11-18T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:37:51","slug":"trustgiving-2014-trust-is-not-one-dimensional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=2313","title":{"rendered":"TrustGiving 2014: Trust is Not One Dimensional"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to\u00a0TRUSTGiving 2014<\/a>, our first annual weeklong trust awareness campaign. \u00a0Join the\u00a0Alliance of Trustworthy Business Experts<\/a>\u00a0as our members help our readers navigate the complexities of trust. We\u00a0will be blogging (several times a day) and posting on Twitter #TrustGiving2014.<\/p>\n

In this post, Bob Whipple discusses the bilateral nature of trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have studied trust for two decades.\u00a0 It is such a rich topic area that the angles of insights are limitless. A concept I want to discuss here is the bilateral nature of trust.\u00a0 We often think of trust as one dimensional: about how we feel toward another person. In reality, trust goes both directions at all times.<\/em><\/p>\n

If we recognize this aspect of trust, one of the best ways to receive more trust in your life is to give more of it to others.\u00a0 If a child trusts us to keep her from falling on her first bike ride, we rise to that trust by being worthy of it.<\/em><\/p>\n

The same kind of reciprocal trust goes on in the workplace every day.\u00a0 If we extend more trust to people then we will build more trust for us in return. It is this cycle of giving and receiving trust that is so helpful for anyone in a leadership position.<\/em><\/p>\n

I work with leaders all the time. Many of them show little trust in their workers because they say, “how can I trust them when they show that they are not trustworthy.”\u00a0 These leaders foster low trust actions and the cycle continues.\u00a0 If they would only seek ways to show higher trust, in little ways, there is a Pygmalion way to walk out of the darkness to where higher trust extension is possible.<\/em><\/p>\n

Take proactive step of extending more trust to people who work for you. This means doing things like:<\/em><\/p>\n