Building Trust
Do you know how to build trust? The challenge is to build trust with your potential customers from the moment you make contact.
This means you need to adopt a guideline that works for you to accomplish this regularly.
Building trust between you and your customer is one of the most critical factors in achieving success in your ability to work well together and to gain higher level contracts/agreements.
One definition of Trust is the emotion of placing your firm belief in someone or something without full evidence or proof or investigation.
There is a certain degree of vulnerability and duty with regard to trust or being put in a position of trust.
Be honest, true to yourself, and committed to doing what is ‘right’ always.
7 simple ways of displaying trust:
- Do what you say you will do.
- Keep confidential information, in confidence.
- Become trustworthy.
- Don’t let your customers down by missing or blurring their expectations.
- Do and say what is ‘right’ as opposed to what might be popular.
- Be sure that you are working from a non-biased foundation.
- Use discernment to establish your motives for saying/doing things.
Trust is like respect and must be earned . This can take years to establish but seconds to break.
Your trust is your bond. Guard it zealously.
What do you think?
Have you faced issues with trust and are you constantly aware of the need to protect and nurture the trust in the relationships you build?
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John Mc Loughlin 2nd July 2013
TrustrnrnTrust for me is really what Napoleon Hill said it is....it is Applied Faith.rnrnThe bible says Faith without works is dead How True!rnrnThe bible also says Without a Vision The people perish. TruernrnVision for me is the area of Leadership.Stephen Covey says it well.All the managers are busy making progress , someone (the Leader ) climbs a tree says WRONG JUNGLE Managers shout back SHUT UP WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS HERErnrnAnd so it Goes.rnrnSo get the Vision. and apply Your Faith with Management to your Vision and you will have trust Believe me.rnrnTo live and see Incarnate Law now that is TrustrnrnTrust here it is Vulnerii sui veritas unguentum est. (Truth is the ointment of its own wound)rnrnJohn