Tust – Key elements

I couldn’t but copy this passage for my reference and to the world around. From what I can infer from this article, I’ve plenty of gray areas wherein I’ve to improve..

TRUST

I believe all relationships are trust relationships, such as employer employee, parent child, husband wife, student / teacher, buyer / seller, customer / salesperson.

How can we have

trust without integrity? Crisis in trust really means crisis in truth. Trust results from being trustworthy.

What are the factors that build trust?

•Reliability –gives predictability and comes from commitment.
•Consistency –builds confidence. ( I lack this )
•Respect–to self and others gives dignity and shows a caring attitude.
•Fairness–appeals to justice and integrity.
•Openness–shows two-way traffic.
•Congruence–action and words harmonize. If a person says one thing and behaves
differently, how can you trust that person?
•Competence–comes when a person has the ability and the attitude to serve. ( this too )
•Integrity–the key ingredient to trust.
•Acceptance in spite of our effort to improve we need to accept each other with our
pluses and minuses.
•Character–a person may have all the competence but if he lacks character he can’t be trusted.

Trust is a greater compliment than love. There are some people we love but we can’t trust them. Relationships are like bank accounts: The more we deposit, the greater they become, therefore, the more we can draw from them. However, if you try to draw without depositing, it leads to disappointment.

Many times we feel we are overdrawn but in reality we may be under deposited.