I Trust You (I Think)!

If influ­ence is the cat­a­lyst of pro­duc­tiv­ity, then trust is the cat­a­lyst of influ­ence. Trust, is some­thing we are unable to mea­sure nor can we described it eas­ily. Yet trust is essen­tial in almost every part of our work and life. We based on trust to com­mu­ni­cate with peo­ple. We based on trust as a way to be con­vinced by what other peo­ple pro­posed. We trust each other for sur­viv­abil­ity. Some­times, when log­i­cal cal­cu­la­tions can­not be made any­more, we use trust as a mean to make our decisions.

Trust is fun­da­men­tal in com­mu­ni­ca­tion. When trust level is high you get things done faster and eas­ily. Your supe­rior trusts you. He trusts your abil­ity to deliver and assign you work. He chooses you to com­plete the task. He does not mon­i­tor your every activ­ity as he is assured of what you can deliv­ered. Your co-workers trust you. They feel more assured work­ing with you as a team. They know that you are a team mem­ber and can com­plete the por­tion of your work and deliver on time. All of them trust you that you will deliver results as what they wanted on time and tar­get. They know that you can uphold the com­mit­ment to them.

Trust pro­motes per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity. Trust is a cat­a­lyst in influ­ence at work. It is the mechan­sim behind influ­ence. When some­one trusts you, he gets influ­enced more eas­ily with what you are propos­ing. They trust your ideas and believed what you are propos­ing to them is ben­e­fi­cial to them. They believed in you. Through these trusts, you are able to deliver infor­ma­tion and del­e­gate work faster and eas­ier than usual. You need not con­vince them over and over again to gain back the trust. When trusts between you and your co-worker is taken to another level, you syn­er­gized with them. You find more solu­tions than any­one of you alone can do it. You deliver even more qual­ity out­put than you can imag­ine with just yourself.

Now, with­out trust, we become more unpro­duc­tive. We cre­ate more work for our­selves. We mon­i­tor our staff on their every move and progress. We put in place check points and mile­stones for them to stay on course. We make guesses of our supe­ri­ors and co-workers. Even at times, you didn’t trust your co-workers in com­plet­ing a cer­tain task. In the end, you take over his work and com­plete on your own. Imag­ine all these amount of time and energy you’ve spent just because of the lack of trust! You could have been more pro­duc­tive if you were able to trust them!

Unfor­tu­nately, trust is not easy to build yet easy to break. A long-lasting trust­ing rela­tion­ship can help you get things done eas­ily. But when we break it, it will take two times as hard to win back the trust. Our advice, when we made a promise at work and life, honor it, live up to the promise. Be con­sis­tent with what­ever you say. All these, earns a lit­tle trust every day. It adds a pos­i­tive value to your trust account. When we do not fol­low such sim­ple rules of being con­sis­tency and uphold­ing our promises, we will one day loose their trusts in us.

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