Speed Of Trust
THE SPEED OF TRUST
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TRUST. More important than vision?
Yes! No matter how grand a vision, the high cost of low trust will prevent you from attaining that vision profitably.
TRUST. More important than strategy?
Yes! While high trust can’t make a poor strategy succeed, the high cost of low trust will derail the execution of an otherwise impeccable strategy.
TRUST. More important than SYSTEMS and STRUCTURE?
Yes! No degree of re-engineering of quality control can overcome the sabotage and tax of a low-trust culture.
TRUST. More important than SKILLS?
Yes! No matter how skilled a group, the high cost of low trust will inhibit their ultimate success. And face it, nothing repels real talent like a high-control, low trust workplace.
The Speed of Trust challenges the age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue and instead demonstrates that trust is a hard-edged, economic driver—a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down -- producing what CoveyLink calls a Trust Dividend™.
A 2002 study by Watson Wyatt shows: total return to shareholders in high trust organizations is almost three times higher than the return in low trust organizations. That's a difference of nearly 300%! An education study by Stanford Professor Tony Bryk reports that schools with high trust have more than a three times higher chance of improving test scores than schools with low trust.
William G. Parrett, CEO Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu says “The Speed of Trust is red-hot relevant. In an age of heightened business regulation and oversight, it is important to focus on fundamentals. And trust is the intangible asset that can help assure the long-term sustainability of any organization or enterprise…”
“Trust is fragile. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”
-Warren Buffett
Based on his firsthand experience over two decades advising executives around the world on leadership, Stephen M. R. Covey now asserts that the ability to establish, grow, restore and extend trust is the key leadership competency of the new, global economy. Your executives and employees will resonate with this fresh pragmatic approach to leadership developed from his unique perspective as the former CEO of a $100 million enterprise. He contends that there is nothing as fast as the speed of trust. There is nothing as profitable as the economics of trust. There is nothing as relevant right now as the pervasive impact of trust.
“There is no ambiguity around performance at Pepsi, which some people perceive as harsh. I see it as an important and necessary part of how you operate. You can’t create a high trust culture unless people perform.” -- Craig Weatherup, former CEO, PepsiCo
The workshop is based on years of hands-on operational leadership and organizational research. Participants are engaged in activities and examples based in their current work – not on theoretical examples or academic models. The goal of the course is to focus leaders on increasing the speed and magnitude of their individual and organizational results by improving trust and increasing influence with their key stakeholders—including their direct reports, people to whom they report, and internal and external clients.
The Speed of Trust Workshop will give you direct unfiltered reactions to the impact of this practical, pragmatic approach to increasing leadership performance. Prove to yourself the measurable cost of low trust & ethics and the significant dividends and speed high trust will immediately contribute to your current initiatives, as it increases both your performance and profits. Discover why we assert that the speed of trust is the new career critical skill. Consider this:
Who do you trust?
Ask yourself this penetrating question. Test this from your own experience. How does it feel not to be trusted? To be hovered over and checked up on? To be over-managed and under-led? There is a visceral feeling that fosters resentment in teens and workers when we do not trust them.
"Only 39% of the workforce trusted their senior managers, while only 45% had confidence in their management's abilities.”
"In the U.S., Europe and Japan, fewer than 30% of opinion leaders say that CEO's or CFO's are credible sources of information." -- Watson Wyatt Survey of 12,000 Workers
Who trusts you?
Ask people what they say behind your back, about you, about your company. Again, test it with your own experience. What are your conversations like with people who trust you? You can say the wrong thing, and they still get your meaning. But what are conversations like with someone when trust is low? You can be precise and measured, and they still interpret it the wrong way.
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” -- Warren Buffet
One of the highlights of the course is The SPEED of TRUST® Audit. This provocative inquiry asks co-workers, direct reports and your boss if they trust you. The resulting, confidential, multiple-page report gives participants candid insights into whether they are perceived by others as a trusted leader.
The SPEED of TRUST® Audit is a proprietary instrument unlike any you have used in the past. The Audit brings the power and impact of trust from the hidden shadows of leadership into the forefront with skills that can be taught that improve performance.
"Leading at the SPEED of TRUST" teaches participants pragmatic, practical, and actionable skills they can implement immediately regardless of their role in the organization. Using the learnings from their SPEED of TRUST® Audit, this highly interactive workshop engages leaders at all levels in the real work of identifying and closing the trust gaps that exist in many organizations. Instead of continuing to pay an outrageous trust tax™, they can begin to realize the great benefits of a trust dividend™ both personally and organizationally.
This creates an opportunity for individuals to prepare themselves to fill the leadership shortage and provides a proven process for organizations to increase the bench strength of their organization by developing critical leadership skills in their key people. "Leading at the SPEED of TRUST" dramatically enhances leadership capability by teaching The 13 Behaviors of High Trust Leaders and how to imbed them into your daily interactions.
"To develop this type of talent, we need to nurture future business leaders in the same way we develop world-class athletes and artists. We need to start early, exposing them to good instructors and coaches. A lot of give-and-take will help the man or woman shape the vision of the world to come." -- Kenichi Ohmae, author "The Next Global Stage"