The Speed of Trust

What is trust? I could give a dictionary definition, but you know it when you feel it. Trust happens when leaders are transparent, candid, and keep their word. It’s that simple.

Jack Welch
former CEO, General Electric

Challenge

Trust-related problems like redundancy, bureaucracy, fraud, and turnover put the skids on productivity, divert resources, squander opportunities, and chip away at a company’s brand. On the other hand, leaders who make building trust an explicit goal of their jobs elevate trust to a strategic advantage—accelerating growth, enhancing innovation, improving collaboration and execution, and increasing shareholder value.

Solution

The Speed of Trust is a highly interactive workshop that engages leaders at all levels in the real work of identifying and closing the trust gaps that exist in your organization. Instead of paying outrageous “Trust Taxes,” your organization can begin to realize “Trust Dividends.” Doing business at the “speed of trust” dramatically lowers costs, speeds up results, and increases profits and influence.

About the Course

FranklinCovey’s The Speed of Trust leadership-development training program is designed to help leaders:

• Choose to make building trust an explicit goal of their work.
• Learn how others perceive their trustworthiness from their personal tQ™ Report.
• Understand the real, measurable Trust Taxes they might be paying without realizing it.
• Change Trust Taxes to Trust Dividends, which are the benefits that come from growing trusting relationships.
• Make action plans to build Trust Accounts with all key stakeholders.
• Begin using the Language of Trust as an important cultural lever.

Read more about our workshop solutions around the Speed of Trust

Have a look at a tQ Sample Report (excerpt)

Interview with Stephen M.R. Covey about Trust in Organizations
(Audio)