Four Ingredients of Trust
Sincerity,Competence,
Reliability and
Involvement,
If we fail to fulfil a promise we strain the relationship and damage our integrity — effectively our trust of ourselves. Also at stake is our identity.
Effectively making and managing commitments generate our assessments of trust and mistrust of others too. Trust, however, is not a characteristic of another person, rather it is an assessment we make regarding their level of trustworthiness — this often says more about ourselves than about the others. Trust is a great source of opportunity for people to improve relationships by:
- Realising their view of trust is just an assessment
- Acknowledging that if someone does not satisfy one aspect of trust for us, it may not make them untrustworthy in other aspects (as per “ingredients” above)
- Going through the process of grounding assessments
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