TRUST

TRUST is a belief that someone or something is reliable, good, honest effective etc:

It was James Cash Penny who said: “I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier”.

TRUST is not necessarily inherent. It is learned. For one to be successful in sport, life or business, TRUST is required. It is not just required it is necessary.

It starts with trusting yourself. As a successful person, whether you have climbed the corporate ladder, earned your way onto a team or started a business, it all started with you trusting in yourself and believing that you had the capability, knowledge, talent or will power to achieve your goals.

TRUST was required to achieve those goals. Can you imagine going into a business meeting or job interview with a complete lack of trust in yourself? How do you think that you would perform? More than likely you would hesitate at answering questions or seem unsure during presentations. Imagine being in combat and not trusting in your ability to make the right call or being on a football team playing and hesitating in the pass or kick because you didn’t trust you talent. A misstep in any of those scenarios could be very costly.

But to be truly successful, trust does not stop there. You have to learn to trust in others. A successful leader does not get to the top by trusting himself or herself and not trusting his or her team and coworkers. For if you do not trust them, how are they in turn supposed to trust you......and if they don’t trust you, inefficiency will more than likely ensue.

The same applies to the way a company performs its business. If that company can show trust to its customer, the customer will be more likely to return the show of trust and be much more comfortable doing business with it. Creating a level of trust will more likely to help formulate a good relationship and in turn, result in a smoother and more profitable outcome.

I’m sure if you look around you will see that there are many successful partnerships, in business and between companies, which have lasted for many years.  Those partnerships were built on TRUST.

There was an old ancient law maker, Solon, who said: “Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.” It takes character to trust yourself and trust your team.