Performance outcomes are heavily underpinned by TRUST.
I have spent nearly 2 decades working with athletes, coaches, practitioners and other discipline experts and across NGBs and Sports Organisations. Something you often hear (not an evidence based statement) is that technical ability is 20% of your success, 80% is your ability to work with others with the concept of TRUST being a vital ingredient of the essential skill mix.
- When we talk about trust, what do we mean?
- Do we really think about TRUST and have we got the personal skills and awareness to truly develop it?
- If we develop TRUST with a view to getting your outcomes, is it authentic?
- Is TRUST virtuous? OR
- Is it an outcome of someones personal characteristics or, is it a skill?
It appears to me that TRUST can be highly fragile. The essential mix of personal characteristics, behaviours and interpersonal skills, if out of balance or brought into conflict through poor inter-personal interactions, can erode trust and crumble relationships. Once TRUST has been weakened, either through slow decay or an abrupt event, rebuilding it will be harder, take more time and may never be restored to where it may have been or could have got to.
