The Trust Guidebook: Social Leadership Guidebooks

By Julian Stodd

Trust is complex, perhaps best viewed as a dynamic landscape. From our respective vantage points, we can all see across it, but as we hike through the terrain, trying to find each other, we tread slightly different paths, experience different conditions underfoot, and take in unique views. Whilst unified within the same map, our personal experiences are deeply felt with every step, and utterly personal.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sea Salt Publishing
• Release date: Apr 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9781916502567

Julian Stodd

Julian Stodd is an author, and founder of Sea Salt Learning, a global learning consultancy helping organisations adapt and thrive in the Social Age. Much of his consultancy work is around core elements of the Social Age: the need for Social Leadership, the design of Scaffolded Social Learning, planning for Organisational Change and the impacts of Social Collaborative Technology. Julian comes from an academic background in communication theory, psychology and neurophysiology, learning design, educational psychology, museum education and philosophy. He is a proud global mentor with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, and a Trustee of Drake Music, a charity that works to break down disabling barriers to music through education and research. He was awarded the Learning Performance Institute 'Colin Corder Award for Services to Learning' in 2016. At its highest level, his work covers documenting the changes of the Social Age and sense-making what we do about it, and ranges from leadership to learning, culture to change, trust to humility. He has written ten books so far, including 'The Social Leadership Handbook', 'Exploring the World of Social Learning' and 'A Mindset for Mobile Learning', plus a Guidebook series each of which explores different aspects of Organisational design and change. All are under 10,000 words and include sections on ‘what you need to know’, and ‘what you need to do about it’.

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THE TRUST GUIDEBOOK

JULIAN STODD

Sea Salt Publishing Sea Salt Publishing

Copyright © 2018 by Julian Stodd

All rights reserved. This book, or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Printed in the United Kingdom.

First Printing, 2018

ISBN:

Paperback: 978-0-9573199-9-8

E-book: 978-1-9165025-6-7

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CONTENTS

Introduction

I. Exploring Trust

II. 12 Aspects of Trust

Further Exploration

INTRODUCTION

Landscape

This Guidebook forms a short reflection on Trust, and a guide to some areas you may wish to consider, as you work through, and complete, ‘The Trust Sketchbook’.

This Guidebook will continue to expand and evolve, as my own understanding does.

Part 1 consists of a series of reflections on trust, to populate the Landscape.

Part 2 provides a series of questions you may wish to consider as you graffiti and complete The Trust Sketchbook

Part 3 provides an overview of other resources and links

Trust is complex, perhaps best viewed as a dynamic landscape. From our respective vantage points, we can all see across it, but as we hike through the terrain, trying to find each other, we tread slightly different paths, experience different conditions underfoot, and take in unique views. Whilst unified within the same map, our personal experiences are deeply felt with every step, and utterly personal.

This interpretation forms the context of my work: if trust is a landscape, the best way for us to understand it, is to explore it, and to share our stories as we go. That’s why I describe this work as a ‘guided, reflective, journey’.

In ‘The Trust Sketchbook’, I have shared the 12 aspects of Trust that I think form waypoints along the route. In this accompanying ‘Trust Guidebook’,