Building Trust

Great Leadership Begins With a Workplace Culture Built on Trust

Trust is at the heart of every relationship and is especially critical in the workplace. In fact, the primary factor affecting employee turnover is whether or not the employee and their manager develop a trusting relationship. Our Building Trust programme teaches how to build and maintain trust, to increase engagement, foster creativity, and garner commitment.

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Understand and Develop the Elements of Trust

We know how important trust is in every relationship. Our Building Trust programme can help leaders and their team members learn how to build trust in the workplace and repair it when it’s broken.

Based on 30 years of research, our trust experts have developed a simple yet powerful model that provides a common language and framework focused on the specific behaviours that build trust.

With the Building Trust programme, individuals can understand the impact of their behaviours on building or eroding trust and identify those aspects that need attention to develop and maintain trusting relationships.

Delivery Options to Meet Your Needs

We can deliver Building Trust in-person, as virtual sessions, as part of a learning journey, or delivered in a self-directed online version, so managers can learn how to build or restore trust wherever they are and whenever they have time.

In Person

Virtual

Online

Half Day in Person Course

This is a half-day course with four hours of instructions. We can deliver sessions for your organisation or equip you to run them yourself. All designs include engaging participant materials, videos, and learning activities that teach participants the following key concepts: The Building Trust framework, how to develop an action plan to engage in more trustworthy behaviours, a three-step process for restoring trust, and how to plan and practise two trustworthy conversations.

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Virtual In-Person Course

The Building Trust virtual course consists of prework assignments completed before the course, followed by two, two-hour live virtual sessions. The virtual sessions offer learners an engaging experience that includes instruction, group activities, and opportunities to practise new skills.

Virtual Session 1 - The course introduces Low and High Trust Relationships, Trustworthy and Untrustworthy Behaviours, the Building Trust Model, and Diagnosing Trustworthiness.

In between session 1 and 2, participants will have 30 minutes to complete and score the self-survey, and create a personal development plan for increasing trust.

Virtual Session 2 - Participants learn how to restore trust and develop new skills by completing activities based on personal work challenges.

Participants receive a set of online tools to aid in applying the content and using it with others through Blanchard Exchange Learner Portal

Online Overview

Building Trust Online takes your people through three modules that cover the essentials of how to build and maintain trusting relationships. The content is broken down into a variety of engaging videos, interactive exercises, case studies, and quizzes that range from one to five minutes each and can be completed in a total of 35-45 minutes.

Micro-activities: Ranging from one to five minutes
Interactive Exercises: Fun, engaging activities include videos, games, stories, case studies, and online discussions
On-Demand Support Tools: Micro-activities for learning during moments of need or reinforcing skills
Manager-Led Debrief: Optional manager-led debrief allows for collaboration and discussion for a blended learning experience

Digital Activities

Set of micro-activities, including videos, interactions, and worksheets, that managers can access in moments of need to support ongoing learning, performance coaching, reinforcement, and custom learning journeys.

Trust is the biggest factor in employee performance

Research has revealed that

18% of people say they don’t trust their boss and 49% of workers claim they have quit a job due to a poor work relationship with their boss.⁽¹⁾

45% of employees cited their lack of trust in leadership as the single biggest issue impacting their performance at work.⁽²⁾

Workplace Insight, Half of people have quit job due to poor work relationship with boss.
Fast Company, Humor is such an important leadership trait we teach it at Stanford’s business school.

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Build A Foundation For Trust

When you have trusting relationships between your team members and their leaders, you have the foundation for building a successful organisation. This trust leads to higher levels of collaboration, increased creativity and risk-taking, more effective execution of business strategy, and increased commitment and loyalty to your company.

Improve Performance

Employees have higher levels of commitment and give more discretionary effort.

Retain Your Talent

Employees are more likely to stay and endorse the company as a great place to work.

Drive Creativity & Innovation

Employees feel safe to communicate more openly and share their best ideas.

Create Collaborate

Colleagues and teams help each other and work together to get things done.

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Contact us today to learn how we can help your leaders learn the skills they need to manage and develop their people effectively.

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