TRUST

When we understand each other, we are better equipped to trust each other.

In a recent Motive Matters Color Code Relationship Training a gem of wisdom was revealed by two of the participants, one a WHITE, the other a RED.

Before I get to that let's take a quick look at the word TRUST.

Trust: 1.) Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.
2.) Something committed into the care of another.
3.) One in which confidence is placed.
SYNONYMS trust, faith, confidence, reliance, dependence. These nouns denote a feeling of certainty that a person or thing will not fail. Trust implies depth and assurance of feeling that is often based on inconclusive evidence.

In the world of relationships, whether business or personal, trust is critical.

Definition #1 above is the most commonly understood meaning of trust. We usually think of trust as believing someone is telling us the truth, or is acting with honesty and integrity. True. But as the famous infomercial says, "But wait! There's more!"

We must learn to trust in other's abilities: A person's ability to do something. A natural or acquired skill or competency.

Motive Matters and The Color Code, helps you discover not only an accurate sense of self-awareness, so that you become "aware" of your own natural gifts and strengths, but also teaches you about the gifts and strengths of others on your team. We are members of many "teams" during the course of a lifetime. In business, we work with management teams, production teams, supervisory teams, human resource teams, executive teams, etc. You may be a part of various teams in your church, for instance...The Worship Team, The Deacons, The Elders, Welcome Team, Parking Lot Team, Softball Team. You get the idea.

Perhaps the most important "team" you will ever participate in, is, your Family Team. A husband and a wife comprise a team. In fact, when it comes to self development, and continuous self improvement, your marriage is, without a doubt, the most important and powerful tool you will experience in life. No other relationship offers the myriad of opportunities to learn to serve another human being, while growing and maturing yourself.

Your children are star performers on your Family Team. Do you trust in their integrity...AND...in their abilities?

Each individual member of any team brings certain gifts and strengths that flow from the Driving Core Motive of their personality. Our passion at Motive Matters is to help people learn to trust each other better.

Now...back to that corporate training experience. I was training the limitation of WHITE we call "indecisive". One WHITE in the room commented how he had taken three weeks gathering information so he could buy a new washing machine for his wife. THREE WEEKS! And, still NO WASHING MACHINE! We all got a good laugh.

Just then, another WHITE spoke up. "I can't make a decision until I feel 100% confident it is the correct decision." He happened to be a brilliant engineer who performs critical design work within a manufacturing process.

Then the gem of brilliance manifested. A RED responded, "You know, sometimes I get so frustrated by what I perceive as the slow pace of you WHITES!" "But, now...I can see where you WHITES are really protecting all the rest of us. By taking a little extra time, and processing all the information logically, you are making sure the solution will work effectively for the entire team!" "Cool!"

Kudos to those who participated in teaching all of us this great truth.

None of us is smarter than all of us. And, no one of us is better than all of us. It takes all Colors, working together, trusting each other, depending upon each other, to get the job done right!

And, as Dr. W. Edwards Deming said, "To know how you depend on others, and how they depend on you,...to take pride in a job well done, and to have had the opportunity to do it...THAT is "joy" in work.