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Trust at a Distance

Do you really understand the person on the other side of the WebEx, Skype, conference call, webcam who you don’t spend much face time with? In today’s increasingly global, virtual work environment we work more and more with people not physically located with us.

We all make judgments, evaluations and assumptions about the situations around us and the actions of others. We put what we see or hear through our own mental and perceptual filters and make decisions. And those decisions lead us to trust (or not trust) others.

That can be really difficult without the benefit of spending time with a person to know and understand them. If your organization is doing more than ever with less, time is a precious resource – so as a result we often assemble teams or swap out team members and put them to work straightaway.

Whoops. We forgot to take some time [there is that word again] to glue everyone together, so to speak. Trust is the glue. Trust typically takes time.

Trust is important in organizations. Few factors can change so many things toward the positive or negative as much as or as quickly as the presence, or absence, of trust.  Our trust encounters are not just limited to direct, face to face encounters –remember it is determined at a distance as well.

imapMyTeam is a great tool to build trust in critical relationships. In fact, there is a series of three trust reports available and they make a great starting point to understand how you build trust, what you need to maintain it, and what happens if trust is fractured. Login at www.imapMyTeam.com  and look for these three reports in the ‘Reports about You’ section of the center pane

Everyone wins as trust grows.