Below you’ll find a trust inventory I’ve developed. You are welcome to use it in your workplace. You could share it at a team meeting or retreat and have people work in pairs or teams to respond, discuss and report out their observations.
1. Which of these describes your approach to trust at work, and why:
b. I withhold trust until people earn it
2. If trust means believing that people will live up to your high expectations and do the right thing, how would you describe the number of people in your workplace who have earned your trust?:
3. Co-workers earn your trust by:
4. Co-workers lose your trust by:
5. Please identify a co-worker, present or past, whom you consider a model of trustworthiness and explain what that person does or did to earn that distinction.
6. How do you hope your co-workers describe their trust in you?
