{"id":4547,"date":"2025-10-01T09:43:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4547"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:43:29","slug":"tracking-trust-in-teams-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4547","title":{"rendered":"Building a Trust Based Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4458\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4458\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4458 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-30-at-8.19.23-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-30-at-8.19.23-AM.png 650w, https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-30-at-8.19.23-AM-300x242.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>Building a trust based organization begins with tracking trust in teams and \u00a0addressing trust weaknesses. \u00a0Doing so results in the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elevating employee engagement &amp; retention<\/li>\n<li>Reducing workplace stress<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing decision making<\/li>\n<li>Increasing innovation<\/li>\n<li>Improving communication<\/li>\n<li>Reducing costs and increasing profits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How many readers work on teams and in organizations with these attributes?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The growing interest in our\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/tap-into-trust.shtml\">Tap Into Trust<\/a> campaign has brought over 200,000 individuals to our list of universal principles, available in 16 languages. We are now running the largest global (one minute\/one question) anonymous survey on workplace trust, with the goal of determining which of our 12 principles of trust are the WEAKEST in teams and organizations. The anonymous survey can be taken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/Trust-One-Principle\">here<\/a> and the results viewed upon completion.<\/p>\n<p>Building a trust based team or organization first requires leadership <strong>ACKNOWLEDGEMENT<\/strong> that trust is a tangible asset, not to be taken for granted, and acknowledgement remains the greatest obstacle, requiring vulnerability. If that hurdle can be overcome, the rest is easy: <strong>IDENTIFY <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>MEND.<\/strong>\u00a0We call this <a href=\"https:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/trust-diagnostics.shtml\">AIM Towards Trust<\/a>, and the framework is being adopted by enlightened leaders of teams and in organizations of all sizes and across industries, providing a path forward to high trust.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Elevating trust in teams and organizations requires both personal and interpersonal principles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The weakest principles break the progress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4549\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4549\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trust-Personal_Interpersonal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trust-Personal_Interpersonal.jpeg 1275w, https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trust-Personal_Interpersonal-232x300.jpeg 232w, https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trust-Personal_Interpersonal-768x994.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trust-Personal_Interpersonal-791x1024.jpeg 791w, https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trust-Personal_Interpersonal-927x1200.jpeg 927w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trust does not stop at &#8220;talk&#8221;. It requires action. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dress down Fridays, ice cream socials and &#8220;purpose&#8221; statements will not get a team or organization across the trust goal line.<\/p>\n<p>For more information <a href=\"b&#x61;&#x72;b&#x61;&#x72;a&#x40;&#x74;r&#117;&#x73;t&#97;&#x63;r&#111;&#x73;s&#97;&#x6d;er&#x69;&#x63;a&#x2e;&#x63;o&#x6d;\">contact<\/a> Barbara Brooks Kimmel, Founder, Trust Across America-Trust Around the World<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\"><i>Barbara Brooks Kimmel <\/i><\/a><i>is an author, speaker, product developer and global subject matter expert on trust and trustworthiness. Founder of Trust Across America-Trust Around the World she is author of the award-winning <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1932919368\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=trustacrossam-20&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1932919368&amp;adid=17T9WSRBD19T73CZF6ER&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/reading_room.shtml\"><i>Trust Inc., Strategies for Building Your Company\u2019s Most Valuable Asset<\/i><\/a><i>, Trust Inc., 52 Weeks of Activities and Inspirations for Building Workplace Trust and Trust Inc., a Guide for Boards &amp; C-Suites. She majored in International Affairs (Lafayette College), and has an MBA (Baruch- City University of NY). Her expertise on trust has been cited in The Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Investor\u2019s Business Daily, Thomson Reuters, BBC Radio, The Conference Board, Global Finance Magazine, Bank Director and Forbes, among others.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025, Next Decade, inc.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-best-social-bookmark\"><ul class=\"socials\"><li class=\"oknotizie\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oknotizie.virgilio.it\/post.html.php?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4547&title=Building a Trust Based Organization\" title=\"Share this on oknotizie\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"twitter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Building a Trust Based Organization &raquo; https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4547\" title=\"Share this on twitter\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"delicious\"><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=4547&title=Building a Trust Based Organization\" title=\"Share this on del.icio.us\"> <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elevating trust in teams and organizations requires specific personal and interpersonal principles and skills. 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