Trust as a competency
July, 2020
- Trust is rarely treated as a competency, but it is a powerful driver of decision making, motivation and therefore performance
- Trust as a competency has two dimensions i.e. trusting (the other person) and trustable (confidence to the person entrusting)
- ‘Hardwired’ thinking and biases have a significant impact on how trust is created in one’s mind
- Developing the ability to separate oneself from one’s thinking is the starting point of developing this competency. This involves ‘unlearning’ engrained biases built over long periods of time
- Trust me, it can be done!
