Today and yesterday I had 4 different meetings or calls that dealt with trust. Business deals, customer orders, dealing with IRS, dealing with a friend’s up line in a MLM and dealing with an adult child.
People were afraid to move forward because there was limited trust. Lack of trust can stop it all. It seems our economy, political system, the advancement of society all suffer the effects of the lack of trust.
MLM’s(multi level marketing) are famous for destroying relationships due to greediness, lack of communication and looking at people as a pay check instead of as a teammate/family. Many organizations talk a good game but only the successful ones practice trust and care. I have heard many organizations quote -“they will never know what you know until they know you care”. Practicing this philosophy seems to be much more difficult and often escapes the action management/leadership follow day by day.
Steven Covey in his bestseller – Speed of Trust describes how the lack of trust creates a -“trust tax” and costs money or valuable time. Covey also talks of a “trust dividend” which is the pay off if businesses or people trust you. This “dividend” should be what we all shoot for in each of our relationships. We will probably down the road revisit this concept but I highly recommend this book as a great read that explains this concept in detail.
Ask yourself if the way you handled yourself today cost you a relationship tax or earned you a trust dividend in someone’s eyes.
MLM leaders, sales folks this is so critical for you. Understand and apply these principles before it’s too late.
I couldn’t agree more. Trust is so vital to successful relationships of any kind. It is much easier to keep that trust than it is to get it back once it is gone.
It all goes back to that basic “due unto others” rule we hopefully learned as children.
I agree Sherry with you as well ~
I believe the banks have forgotten a little about this. I am in hopes that one day when we all recover we can choose not to do business with the businesses who have raped us during these trying times.. Single mother of two college boys, I feel our education system has failed us as well:) We will win in the long run. Here’s to our children and US to stand up aginst the goverment and take back our rights! Happy Mother’s Day to all.. Without us where would we be:)
I believe that trust is the payoff for the person with integrity. The definition of integrity comes from having consistency in values, actions, principles, expectations, methods and outcomes or someone that you can TRUST.
I.T.T. is a communication abbreviation for
Integrity, Trust and Truth.
Doug, you have pin-pointed the area that we all need to become better at in order to change the world we live in
Frank Gasiorowski
“Mr90DayGoals”
http://www.90DayGoals.com
Frank, great advice ! We need to all start the change to make the world a better place for our children and grandchildren. We need to recapture this power in our daily lives !
I like Frank’s I.T.T. is a communication abbreviation for
Integrity, Trust and Truth.
It amazes me to see company’s still in business that have no idea what it means to have integrity. I.T.T. should be the basis of any relationship with it be family, friend or customer. Thank you for the reminder.
This is very true. Trust if very hard to give back when abused. It is difficult when others just don’t care about trust. The more I come across it the less I want to trust anyone. It would be nice to know ahead of time. What bothers me is that the ones who don’t care, never did and won’t even know what they miss accumulating the trust of others.
Paige, when trust is abused it is indeed difficult to trust that person again and when you do it is very limited. Trust is earned. Thanks for commenting !