Leadership Trust: Build It, Keep It

By Christopher Evans

This book helps leaders create a common language and understanding around issues of trust that show up in the organizational environment. It's important for leaders to be clear on how they are experiencing a situation that's causing a lack of trust before they initiate discussions on trust itself. Leaders need to be grounded in the observable actions or behaviors that are affecting their willingness to interact. To identify these behaviors, this book looks at interpersonal trust through factors of perceived trustworthiness, or dimensions of trust. Next, leaders need to prepare for and engage in trust-advancing conversations. This book provides some examples of initiating both individual and team-level trust conversations around specifi c issues that deal with ability, integrity, and loyalty. You'll learn to choose between sharing performance feedback and initiating deeper trust conversations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership
• Release date: Oct 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781604917086

Christopher Evans

Christopher Evans has been the Member of Parliament for Islwyn since 2010. Currently he serves as the Shadow Minister for Defence Procurement. His first book, Fearless Freddie: The Life and Times of Freddie Mills was published in 2017 and shortlisted for The Times Biography of the Year at the 2018 Sports Book Awards. Christopher Evans lives in South Wales and is married to Julia and has two children. @Chris_EvansMP

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LEADERSHIP

TRUST

BUILD IT, KEEP IT

IDEAS INTO ACTION SERIES

This series of books draws on the practical knowledge that the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) has generated, since its inception in 1970, through its research and educational activity conducted in partnership with hundreds of thousands of managers and executives. Much of this knowledge is shared—in a way that is distinct from the typical university department, professional association, or consultancy. CCL is not simply a collection of individual experts, although the individual credentials of its staff are impressive; rather it is a community, with its members holding certain principles in common and working together to understand and generate practical responses to today’s leadership and organizational challenges.

The purpose of the series is to provide managers with specific advice on how to complete a developmental task or solve a leadership challenge. In doing that, the series carries out CCL’s mission to advance the understanding, practice, and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide. We think you will find the Ideas Into Action Series an important addition to your leadership toolkit.

LEADERSHIP

TRUST

BUILD IT, KEEP IT

Christopher Evans

IDEAS INTO ACTION SERIES

Aimed at managers and executives who are concerned with their own and others’ development, each book in this series gives specific advice on how to complete a developmental task or solve a leadership problem.

LEAD CONTRIBUTOR

Christopher Evans

CONTRIBUTORS

Allan Calarco

Harold Scharlatt

Jonathan Vehar

DIRECTOR OF ASSESSMENTS, TOOLS, AND PUBLICATIONS

Sylvester Taylor

MANAGER, PUBLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Peter Scisco

EDITOR

Stephen Rush

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Shaun Martin

DESIGN, LAYOUT, AND COVER DESIGN

Ed Morgan, navybluedesign.com

RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS

Kelly Lombardino

EDITORIAL BOARD

David Altman, Elaine Bleich, Regina Eckert, Joan Gurvis, Jennifer Habig, Kevin Liu, Kelly Lombardino, Neal Maillet, Jennifer Martineau, Portia Mount, Laura Santana, Harold Scharlatt

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