How to Grow Trust #49

Nov 17, 2018

Overview of Episode #49 ---

• Three Things You Can Do To Grow Trust
• Five Fingers of Trust
• How Fear Gets in the Way and a Bridge to Help You
• Five Step Process for Leaning into Healthy Conflict
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Timing on Recording: @ 7:04  ---

Topic 1: Welcome; Why Does Growing Trust Matter?

• Produces more results.
• Produces more efficiently/effectively.
• It enriches your life, as well as other’s.

Timing on Recording: @ 13:12  ---

Topic 2: This life is about love, especially if you want to lead, it's really about love.

• There is truth.
• Servant Leadership Model.
• Be willing to ask tough questions.

Timing on Recording: @ 20:18  ---

Topic 3: Two things that will help you accomplish more than you ever have.

• Relationships: Have rich relationships, people will do things, people will give you discretionary effort that they wouldn’t give you if you don't have a good relationship with them.
• Make better decisions: When you are too busy, you make poor decisions, if you make better decisions, even just 10% better, and the people you are counting on help you achieve whatever it is you are trying to accomplish, then you have better relationships, you accomplish more.

Timing on Recording: @ 32:03  ---

Topic 4: What Gets in the Way of Growing Trust?

1. Being busy.
2. Fear, fear is number ONE.
3. Not finding your courage.

Timing on Recording: @ 37:42  ---

Topic 5: How Do You Help People and Challenge People at the Same Time?

• Lean into healthy conflict.
• Put the issue on the table, this takes courage.
• Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
• You don't have to agree, but you do have to figure out to move forward.
• Follow through.

Timing on Recording: @ 47:20  ---

Topic 6: Five Fingers of Trust.

• Character – Have to trust someone’s character. (Middle finger)
• Commitment – How committed are you to the team and to me? (Ring finger)
• Competence – Can you do what you say you are going to do? (Pinky finger)
• Communication – Do we connect? (Thumb)
• Alignment – Are we aligned on something? (Pointer finger)

Timing on Recording: @ 58:11  ---

Topic 7: What are some of the traits or things the people who influenced you the most do?

• They were courageous.
• They believed in you.
• They were tough, they didn’t accept excuses, but they were tender hearted.

Timing on Recording: @ 1:05:35  ---

Topic 8: Close.

• Favorite TV Show: Sports or American Idol, real life drama, anything learning (theology, history), and comedies, The Big Bang Theory.
• Favorite Possession: My house.
• Advice You Would Give Your 25 Year-Old Self: “My greatest failure to this point is I have no great failures.” “Be willing to fail because that's where you're going to really grow the most.”
• One billboard anywhere, where would it be and what would it say: “Are you living?”
• Bit of Advice or Wisdom You Want Every Leader to Take Away About Growing Trust: “Risk being willing to give when you might not receive.”