The end of an era! In this special "end-isode," Kari and Paul look back not only on this season in which we've explored trust, but on the past one-and-half years of Leadership Impact.

For full shownotes: https://www.tgn-consulting.com/season-3-episode-48-leadership-impact-endisode/

Sooner or later, all of us will experience betrayals in life. The key isn't going to the ends of the earth to avoid betrayals altogether. That will never happen. Rather, the key is in learning how to respond to betrayals when they do happen. In this episode, Kari and Paul show how an inability to recover from betrayals poisons our relationships and takes away our ability to act going forward. On the other hand, knowing how to powerfully accept and bounce back from betrayals enables us to move through life with more confidence, more creativity, and more trust.

For full shownotes: https://www.tgn-consulting.com/season-3-episode-47-acceptance-as-a-revolutionary-act/

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When we think of a "betrayal," we often think of an earth-shattering, personally-devastating, stabbed-in-the-back sort of deception. But betrayals come in all shapes and sizes. And failure to acknowledge and deal with the "little betrayals"—such as routine gossip at the water-cooler—can have a huge effect on the state of trust in our organizations. In this episode, Kari and Paul discuss how to spot these minor betrayals, and how to deal with them early on and effectively.

For full shownotes: https://www.tgn-consulting.com/season-3-episode-46-betrayal-in-the-workplace/

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How often do we think we are on the same page with our colleagues—only to find out a little (or a lot) later that we had our wires completely crossed? Unclear agreements are incredibly common. In fact, one could say that most of the agreements that we make at work are at least partially unclear. And these unclear agreements don't just lead to poor performance and inefficiency—they also erode trust in a big way. In this episode, Kari and Paul show you how to design your agreements so that everything is crystal clear, nothing slips through the cracks, and trust is maintained from start to finish.

For full shownotes: https://www.tgn-consulting.com/season-3-episode-45-setting-the-stage-for-a-trust-culture/

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Moods are everywhere! We are always in one mood or another. In a way, they are the background tone of our existence, the lens through which we see the world. In this episode, Kari and Paul look at which moods support trust and which make trust all but impossible to sustain. Although moods have an outsized effect on our daily lives, we are not at their mercy. No matter what mood we find ourselves in, we can always cultivate a new one, one that sets us up for trusting relationships.

For full shownotes: https://www.tgn-consulting.com/season-3-episode-44-signs-and-symptoms-you-are-not-oriented-to-bring-trust/

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We often think of trust as a binary -- either you have it, or you don't. Either it's there, or it isn't. Like a light switch, we think trust is either "on" or "off," with nothing in between. This extreme view of trust leads to some extreme behaviors. With a single violation, we can easily write off the possibility of trusting a person ever again. In this episode, Kari and Paul explore a more nuanced approach to trust that serves us in building lasting, authentic, trusting relationships.

For full shownotes: https://www.tgn-consulting.com/season-3-episode-43-trust-is-not-a-light-switch/

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Whenever we get stuck in a downward cycle of distrust, even the smallest perceived slight can appear as an existential threat to our existence, and the faintest provocation can send us up the wall. In this episode, Kari and Paul show how building trust with others often relies on shifting our perspective on the "small things" in life and avoiding the tendency to blow everything out of proportion. What's the secret to making that shift? Well, it has little something to do with "potatoes and Van Goghs"…listen to find out more!

For full shownotes: https://www.tgn-consulting.com/season-3-episode-42-potatoes-and-van-goghs/

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Feedback. Many of us cringe at even the thought of giving it—let alone receiving it. But navigating feedback is an absolutely critical skill for maintaining the health of our relationships and our organizations. When we sit on our feedback and refuse to share it, we sow the seeds of distrust. In this episode, Kari and Paul show how we can develop our capacity for giving and receiving feedback so that we actually look forward to those conversations as opportunities for alignment and co-creation.

For full shownotes: https://www.tgn-consulting.com/season-3-episode-41-thank-you-for-the-negative-feedback/

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"Fake it till you make it." That's advice we often hear for how to step up our game at work. But as it turns out, when it comes to building trust, that advice just doesn't work very well. Why do we often feel so compelled to pretend there's trust when there isn't. We do it in order to be polite, because we don't want to ruffle any feathers with our colleagues (and certainly not our bosses!). Instead, we slowly create a poisonous environment where real issues can't be addressed and resentments build. But there is another way—a way to be direct when it comes to conversations for trust, without burning bridges. In this episode, Kari and Paul we explain how.

For full shownotes: https://www.tgn-consulting.com/season-3-episode-40-why-faking-it-could-be-sabotaging-your-culture/

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Distrust often starts innocuously enough. A bit of gossip. A smidge of dissent. But as the saying goes, "When it rains, it pours." Before you know it, a snowball effect takes hold, and the whole organization can easily become engulfed in cynicism, antagonism, and territorial bickering. In this episode, Kari and Paul discuss how to intervene before our organizational cultures spiral into a cycle of distrust, and how to maintain more productive moods of curiosity, ambition, and collaboration instead. How do we intervene in this way? First, we must recognize that trust is built through conversation, and learn how to have those conversations more effectively in creating a positive spiral of trust throughout our organizations.

For full shownotes: https://www.tgn-consulting.com/season-3-episode-39-how-cultures-spiral-out-of-control/

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