Category: Leadership Qualities

Building Trust

No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you. Whether you are just taking over a team or working to implement large-scale change within one, you are guaranteed to run into resistance if you haven’t taken time to establish a foundation with the people you oversee before turning their worlds upside down. - John C. Maxwell

As noted in this week’s post, trust makes leadership possible. In it, we explored the story of Samson from the John Maxwell Leadership Bible and what Maxwell calls the Law of Solid Ground.

Author Ken Blanchard furthers Maxwell’s point in his article on “Building Trust”, providing many instructive insights for Out of This World Leaders.

First, it should be noted that 59% of individuals indicated they left an organization due to trust issues, citing lack of communication and dishonesty as key contributing factors.

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The Law of Solid Ground

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This week’s devotions from the John Maxwell Leadership Bible focus on the sixth law (of twenty-one) of leadership—the Law of Solid Ground, which says that trust serves as the foundation of leadership.

To build trust, a leader must exemplify three qualities: competence, character, and connection. People will forgive occasional mistakes based on ability, especially if they see that you’re still growing as a leader. But they won’t trust someone who slips in character. In that area, even occasional lapses are lethal. No leader can break trust with his team and expect to keep influencing them. Trust makes leadership possible.

Let’s examine this week’s devotions, focused on Samson and the Law of Solid Ground.

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