Trust Busters and Trust Builders
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Trust is the foundation of leadership. If people don't trust their leader, they won't follow their leader. That's because trust is the ground upon which relationships are built. This week on The John Maxwell Leadership Podcast, John discusses five trust buster and five trust builders that every leader should know in order to ensure they are building a culture of trust in their organization, family, and relationships.
During the application portion of this episode, Mark Cole and Chris Goede dive deep into John's lesson and discuss the importance of trust within their own work relationship and with the people they both lead. They also discuss whether trust is given or if it is earned and how the leader should set the stage for trust for the people they lead.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Trust Buster and Trust Builders Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/BuildTrust and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
References:
Earning Trust Series – The John Maxwell Leadership Podcast
The Self-Aware Leader by John C. Maxwell
Leadershift by John C. Maxwell
Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 by John C. Maxwell
Everyone Communicates, Few Connect by John C. Maxwell
Change Your World by John C. Maxwell
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the John Maxwell leadership podcast. My name is Mark Cole. I get the privilege |
| 0:12.2 | of having a trust relationship with John Maxwell. In fact, I've got a co-host today here, |
| 0:18.9 | Chris Goady and likewise, just a great environment to build trust, but I've also been a part |
| 0:26.5 | of busting trust. And so today, I'm really excited about our subject because we're going to talk |
| 0:33.1 | about trust busters and trust builders. John's going to give you five things that will bust up, |
| 0:40.2 | trust in a relationship, and then we're going to finish today's lesson with five things that will |
| 0:45.1 | build trust. Anton Chekhov is a Russian playwright and has written, in fact, he's considered to be one of |
| 0:54.0 | the best writers, the greatest writers of short fiction in history. He made a quote that I was |
| 1:01.6 | really reminded of today. He said this, you must trust and believe in people our life becomes |
| 1:08.3 | impossible. That's what today is all about. It's about not only giving you things to consider that |
| 1:15.2 | will break trust, but it's also things that will help you build trust within your teams, within |
| 1:20.7 | your relationships, because that's what we believe makes great leaders. Now today, John's going to |
| 1:27.0 | teach you, then my co-host, Chris Goady and I are going to come back and we're going to build this |
| 1:33.1 | out for you and how we apply this in John Maxwell's enterprise. So if you would like to download a |
| 1:40.9 | free bonus resource that will be filling the blank notes for you that is specific to this lesson, |
| 1:47.5 | you can go over to MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash build trust. Click on the bonus resource button and |
| 1:56.4 | you will be able to download those show notes. Now here is John C Maxwell. |
| 2:02.9 | Let's talk about trust busters versus trust builders. And we're going to look at some |
| 2:19.6 | characteristics of both and we want to ask ourselves the question, are you a trust |
| 2:23.0 | buster or are you a trust builder? Dr. Carol Clifton, who is a psychiatrist, had a lot of these |
| 2:32.9 | thoughts that I pass on to you now. Let's talk about trust busters first of all. What are some of |
| 2:38.2 | the trust busters? Number one, breaking promises. Cyrus said never promise more than you can |
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