{"id":5610,"date":"2025-06-01T08:33:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T12:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2025-06-01T08:39:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T12:39:50","slug":"trust-gap-leadership-vs-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=5610","title":{"rendered":"Trust Gap: Leadership vs. Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of our <a href=\"https:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/cgi-bin\/alliance.cgi\">Trust Alliance<\/a> members was assisting a leadership team in assessing why a certain division was underperforming. We worked with them to run our simple one minute <a href=\"https:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/trust-diagnostics.shtml\">AIM Trust Audit<\/a> for both the leadership team and the division employees. Take a look at the results. The first chart is leadership (38 respondents) and the second is the division employees. (108 respondents).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A relatively wide gap existed between the leadership team&#8217;s perception of the behaviors undermining trust compared to the employee&#8217;s perception.  These results are quite common in our assessments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you think the leadership team responded when provided with this data? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What would you advise them to do next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5580\" width=\"610\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-3.png 452w, https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-3-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/\"><em>Barbara Brooks Kimmel&nbsp;<\/em><\/a><em>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&nbsp;<\/em><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\"><em>Trust Inc., Strategies for Building Your Company\u2019s Most Valuable Asset<\/em><\/a><em>, 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 Harvard Business Review, Investor\u2019s Business Daily, Thomson Reuters, BBC Radio, The Conference Board, Global Finance Magazine, Bank Director and Forbes, among others.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information visit our website at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/\">www.trustacrossamerica.com<\/a><\/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=5610&title=Trust Gap: Leadership vs. Employees\" title=\"Share this on oknotizie\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"twitter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Trust Gap: Leadership vs. Employees &raquo; https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=5610\" title=\"Share this on twitter\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"delicious\"><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=5610&title=Trust Gap: Leadership vs. Employees\" title=\"Share this on del.icio.us\"> <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our Trust Alliance members was assisting a leadership team in assessing why a certain division was underperforming. We worked with them to run our simple one minute AIM Trust Audit for both the leadership team and the division employees. Take a look at the results. 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