{"id":18928,"date":"2025-06-10T14:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/?p=18928"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:41:53","slug":"the-trust-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/?p=18928","title":{"rendered":"The Trust Builders\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"isPasted\">The Trust Builders tool is designed to improve team health by building vulnerability-based trust among team members. It is typically introduced during the Team Health section of an Annual Planning session. The objective of Trust Builders is to foster a culture where team members can be open, honest, and transparent with one another, which is foundational for strong teamwork and collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Elements of Trust Builders:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Vulnerability-Based Trust<\/strong>: Encouraging team members to be vulnerable and open about their strengths, weaknesses, and concerns helps build deeper trust within the team.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Regular<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Practice<\/strong>: The tool encourages selecting at least one Trust Builder each quarter to continually improve team trust and health.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Examples<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>of<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Trust<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Builders<\/strong>: Activities such as the &#8220;Personal Histories&#8221; exercise, where team members share personal backgrounds, and the &#8220;One Thing&#8221; exercise, where each member identifies one thing they appreciate about their colleagues, are examples of Trust Builders that can be used to enhance trust and team cohesion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>By committing to regular Trust Builders activities, teams can steadily improve their interpersonal relationships and create a more cohesive and high-performing team environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/trust-builders-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/trust-builders-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/trust-builders-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/trust-builders-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/trust-builders-335x434.png 335w, https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/trust-builders-398x515.png 398w, https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/trust-builders-312x404.png 312w, https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/trust-builders.png 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eosworldwide.com\/eos-tools\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.eosworldwide.com\/eos-tools\">EOS Worldwide<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Up next: <a href=\"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/?p=18956&amp;brand=expand\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/?p=18956&amp;brand=expand\">Painless Performance Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trust Builders tool is designed to improve team health by building vulnerability-based trust among team members. It is typically introduced during the Team Health section of an Annual Planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_helpful_status":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[188],"class_list":["post-18928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eos","tag-eos"],"wps_subtitle":"A set of exercises to enhance trust within teams by encouraging openness, improving communication, and breaking down barriers for better collaboration.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20724,"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928\/revisions\/20724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securedb.io\/kb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}