{"id":3042,"date":"2015-12-08T09:11:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2015-12-08T09:11:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:11:46","slug":"is-your-office-suffering-from-low-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3042","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Office Suffering From Low “T?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How many of the following are ongoing issues in your office?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. High employee turnover and absenteeism<\/li>\n
  2. Negative water cooler conversations<\/li>\n
  3. Slow decision making and low innovation<\/li>\n
  4. A seemingly never ending series of crises<\/li>\n
  5. Stagnant or diminishing profitability<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you answered “yes” to one or more\u00a0of the five issues listed above, your office is suffering from low “T” and the prescription for a return to health rests squarely on the shoulders of leadership. So what is low “T?” It’s low trust and the single most common and debilitating impediment to successful organizations.<\/p>\n

    The good news is low “T” is easily cured. Leaders just need to acknowledge the disease\u00a0and implement a trust building prescriptive culture. Why not set a goal of starting that process on January 1, 2016? Here are a few ways to head down the path to recovery:<\/p>\n

    In every interaction with every person, ask yourself: \u201cWhat can I do in this moment to strengthen the trust between us?<\/em>\u00a0Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner<\/a><\/p>\n

    You don’t build trust by getting louder; you build trust by getting closer.<\/em> Richard Fagerlin<\/a><\/p>\n

    Take a younger employee to lunch and ask them a lot of questions and listen-to-learn.<\/em>\u00a0Jon Mertz<\/a><\/p>\n

    Terminate toxic people, even the star performers<\/em>. Bob Vanourek<\/a><\/p>\n

    Build a foundation of organizational trust to soften the blow from the next breach<\/em>. Barbara Brooks Kimmel<\/a><\/p>\n

    We have a great tool to help you. For the third year, Trust Across America-Trust Around the World has assembled, with the help of dozens of global experts, an annual TRUST POSTER<\/a><\/strong>. The 2016 theme is 52 Ideas That YOU Can Implement to Build Trust.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0It not only makes a great inexpensive “gift of trust” for the holidays\u00a0but provides many of the keys to reversing the cycle of organizational mistrust. These are just a few\u00a0suggestions on ways to use these posters that are already in place in many organizations for 2016:<\/p>\n