The TRUST Show

S3E10: Becoming more Trusted. The end of the Process. What‘s Next?

After covering the entire Trust Habits process, this final episode of the 3rd season will answer the question, "what's next?" What should you do once you are more trusted in a specific relationship in a specific context? How do you extend this new habit? This episode will propose how to increase your trustworthiness in the eyes of the same person further, how to be trusted in the same relationship doing more things, and how to be trusted by other people, as well. 

Finally, this episode will also reflect on the first three seasons of this podcast, and give you a glance of what's coming in the 4th season and beyond. 

S3E9: Becoming more Trusted, Step 7: Just do it!

The first 6 steps of the process helped you identify a relationship, what you are doing that's holding you back from being more trusted in that relationship, identify a new habit that will help you be more trusted, and helped you refine and clarify that habit, making it stick, and appoint an accountability partner that will help you achieve your goal. You could have done all of that without leaving your chair, and you could have completed it in hours or days. But now, it's time to form the habit. You have a plan, and you must execute it. This episode describes the 7th step of the Trust Habits process, the step you do by yourself. The episode will answer the main question: how long would it take for it to become a habit? There are two reasons why it will take months (and not days or weeks). The episode will also propose what to do if you miss practicing the habit. 

S3E8: Becoming more Trusted, Step 6: Accountability Partner

In a study, the Association for Training and Development found that by yourself, the probability of achieving a goal you have set for yourself will not exceed 50%. There is one more method we will deploy to help you build the new habit that will make you more trusted: using an accountability partner. In this episode, we will explain why an accountability partner is important, help you decide who would be a good accountability partner for you, and how to effectively work with the accountability partner. 

S3E7: Becoming more Trusted, Step 5: Making it Stick (Part II), Extrinsic Motivation

It's not enough that you identified the new habit that must replace an old bad habit that was holding you back from being more trusted. The Goldilocks rule states that if it is too easy or too hard, you will not be motivated enough to form this new habit. So, you chose a habit that is right there on the line of being too hard. The previous episode gave you five methods to make it a little easier, or make it "stick." But, often the intrinsic motivation (being more trusted) is simply not enough to overcome the effort. This episode covers the sixth method to make it stick: extrinsic motivation. What is extrinsic motivation? How does it work? When could you stop? Answers to all these questions are in this episode of The TRUST Show. 

S3E6: Becoming more Trusted, Step 5: Making it Stick (Part I)

The last three episodes covered the first four steps in developing a habit that will help you become more trusted. You identified a specific relationship (Step 1), one bad habit you have that's holding you back from being more trusted (Step 2), and one good new habit that will contradict your bad habit (Step 3). In Step 4, you clarified it further and made it a S.M.A.R.T. habit (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound). This episode will help you make this new habit stick, make it easier to form into something that you do automatically. This episode will cover the first 5 (of 6) methods to achieve that: Filling the void, Friction Control, Habit Conditioning, Technical Support, and Logging.

S3E5: Becoming more Trusted, Steps 3/4: SMART Action Plan

This is the third episode in which I’m taking you through the 7 step process to be more trusted. In the previous episodes, you went through step 1 and identified one relationship you want to be more trusted at, and through step 2, where you identified one bad thing you are doing in that relationship that is holding you back from being more trusted.

In this episode, we will go through step 3, and identify one good thing you will do to counteract that bad thing, and also turn is into a SMART action plan.

S3E4: Becoming more Trusted, Step 2: One BAD Thing

This is the second episode in which I’m taking you through the 7 step process to be more trusted. In the previous episode, you went through step 1 and identified one relationship you want to be more trusted at. In this episode, you will go through step 2, and identify one bad thing you are doing in that relationship that is holding you back from being more trusted.

S3E3: Becoming More Trusted. Step 1: One Relationship

In previous seasons and episodes you learned what trust is, the benefits of it, the costs of not having trust. You learned the 8 laws of trust, and that the building block of trust is your trustworthiness. Then, you learned my 6 component model of what makes a person trustworthy. I even applied it to different situations. Now, it’s time to work on your trustworthiness, using my 7-step process. To some extent, it is similar to losing weight. There are strong benefits, but it’s really hard to do, although not impossible. This is the first episode in a series of episodes that will take you through that process. If up until now I educated you, now it’s time to make it happen. I will give you examples from my weight loss journey, as well as the process I took myself through to become a better leader. I will give you specific assignments. The best way to benefit from this is to actually do the assignments. You can follow the process here in this podcast, or in The Book of TRUST, The WORKBOOK of TRUST, or my online courses TRUSTED at WORK. 

S3E2: How to Kill Trustworthiness

No leader intentionally wants to kill trustworthiness of their people. But they do it anyway, and often for what they believe are justified reasons. Nevertheless, the outcome is the same: they cause their people to lose their trustworthiness, and as a result, they can’t trust them. This episode will explain WHY it happens in light of the 8 laws of trust and the 6 components of trustworthiness which were covered in seasons one and two of this podcast, but also give you tools, using those same 8 laws and 6 components, to stop killing their trustworthiness and increase the level of trust in the organization.

S3E1: The Cost of Not Having Enough Trust

Why is trust so important? How does trust contribute to the bottom line? This episode cites a lot of research done by many. It shows the impact of having trust on company performance, on employee attitudes, on employee behaviors, and on project performance. A lot of numbers will be thrown in this episode, that will paint a complete picture. They will show what happens when the level of trust is above average, as well as what happens when it dips below average. It will also explain why being trusted is so important to us. All the sources of the data provided in this episode are listed in The Book of Trust.