So what do you do to build trust in a relationship? Think about it. I’ll wait.
You’re probably not sure because it’s not very conscious or deliberate. In fact, you might have trouble usefully defining “trust.”
For their book The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations, the authors surveyed three global companies in various countries to define trust.
They established two different types of trust:
- Competence-based trust: “My plumber is the king of toilets. I trust him to do a good job.”
- Benevolence-based trust: “Larry is a good person. He won’t kill me in my sleep and pour sugar in my gas tank.”
The latter is what most people think of when they talk about trust. What creates it?
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