Do you trust people in general? Do you trust people around you? Do you trust people you care? Do you trust people you love? Do you trust yourself?
From the reading there are five facets, benevolence, honesty, openness, reliability, and competence, which I found pretty much match my cross-stick. 1.Openness - Truth, telling the truth sometime might make people feel vulnerable, that’s why it needs courage to do so. 2.Reliability - Reliability, exactly as I mentioned being qualified and accountable. 3.Benevolence - Understanding, being empathized, caring, considerate, and patient. 4.Honest - Sincerity, the sense of integrity is very important while leading people, you lead their hearts not just their bodies! 5.Competence - To-the-End, besides never give up and energy-driven, you need the capability to reach the goal, touchdown!
Here are some of my thoughts that I would like to share with you: a.Trust yourself if you know you’re doing the “right” thing! b.Trust people you love and care, with your trust, then they’ll trust in themselves to accomplish everything. c.Trust people around you, so we can work as a team. d.Trust people in general, so there’s hope in us.
Bonnie said --- In recent years, the social relevance of trust has been well established in the social sciences and the obligation to foster trust in the work place and learning environments of schools has been strongly advocated. Information sharing and open communication are bases for trust. The more information you share with people, the higher morale is the higher the level of trust. The ideas of “hope” are framed in the sense of anticipation or expectation especially in the context of the personal and professional relationships that engender trust in schools. Trust includes some characteristics of Truth, Reliability, Understanding, Sincerity and To-the-end. 1.Truth---have the courage to tell the truth. 2.Reliability---qualified and accountable, who can back you up. 3.Understanding---empathy, considerate, patience. 4.Sincerity---in order to build trust. 5.To-the-end---touch the goal and never give up. I really agree with Shira’s thoughts about trust. Trust comes from your heart. Here is a poem about Trust. I want share with you.
Brief is Doubtful, Trust is Certain Belief is from Mind, Trust is from Heart Belief is Lip Service; Trust is Heart Felt Believe many; Trust only a Few Believing is Easy, Trusting is Hard Belief scores 50%, Trust scores 100% Belief is Ordinary; Trust is Extra-ordinary Belief is Start point; Trust is End Point Belief is Limited; Trust is infinite Belief is Shaking Hands, Trust is Embracing Belief keeps Control; Trust gives up control Belief is jumping opportunities; Trust is staying Belief is not Time Tested; Trust passes Tough Times Belief is Partial; Trust is Complete Believe in Thoughts; Trust your Instincts Belief in God is Attempting; Trust in God is Surrender Belief is Important; Trust is Essential Osho said: Belief is Plastic Rose; Trust is Real Rose
The literature on trust is substantial. Despite this there is a sense that trust is not well understood. Many professionals do not know how to think about or examine trust relationships. Trust can be defined like love, we know it when we see it, and still we don’t know what or when or how build it. Trust is not an act or set of acts, but the result of other actions. The fact that trust is a judgment may explain why the concept of trust is naturally easy to understand but the supporting logic is complex and difficult to pin down. Judgment is an interactive process between the person doing the judging and whatever is being judged. This means that the disposition, needs and capacities of the individual making the judgment are an essential part of the equation, and that trust cannot be determined by the qualities of the object of trust alone. Something or someone may be highly trustworthy by certain standards, and yet not be trusted by people with different needs, standards, or levels of understanding. Likewise something or someone may be highly untrustworthy by common standards, yet be trusted by people who are naive, socially conditioned or have a need to trust. In both ways there is a strong intuitive link between the concept of trust and the concept of truth which is as complex as trust. I think trust is a tree and truths are a firmly rooted of that tree as an important qualification. Every tree has limits on the loads it can sustain before breaking or falling, and trees that appear to be solid may have shallow roots, inner rot, or any number of other conditions that make the tree weak. Before tying a lifeline to the tree it would be wise to do a rational assessment. This would lead to a calculation or estimate of the loads and forces the tree is capable of sustaining at different points. Next it would be necessary to calculate the dynamics of the loads that the tree would be subject to and compare these stresses to the tree’s load carrying capacity to determine the margins of safety or probability of failure. The key point here is that trust is formed with different levels of precision, depending on the needs of the situation and the level of skill and understanding of the people making the judgment. Schools, or any work situation for that matter, involve many different 'players' and relationships, students, teachers, principals, parents, and central office personnel. Each of the relationships will carry their own expectations and will involve varying degrees and types of trust. But trust is the strength and quality of collaborative relationships, which would show up in every aspect of an organization or learning community where people are engaged with each other.
I think that transformation in school embarks on trust and trust is having key role in rapid progress of a company that demands extra endeavor and effort to be established and kept. In an organization with less trust among members the amount of ignorance and distort of facts and ideas are likely to rise which in turn increases the misunderstanding and less effective performance. But how well this trust is infused in organization is closely associated with the qualities of leader such as honesty, fairness, consistency and competency of him that are foundations of trust. Most people prefer to be led by person who can count on and doesn’t change his position. So, It is essential for the leader to be consistent in what they say and do and meet their commitments. Competent leaders who align their values with actions and make the followers clear with values and ideals by demonstrating them in action and exemplifying those ideals in their daily acts are more likely to establish high amount of trust in the organization. In general, I think if the principals are true renaissance people and they display commitment to the reforms and praise trust in their actions, and also provide every one with enough emotional support and opportunities to express themselves and work and learn with and from their colleagues, trust can be placed at the center of that organization’s performances.
I think "Trust" is a very fundamental and at the same time a very profound issue to be talked in the educational environment.
When doctor Andy and Fatima talking about once you trust someone and you will certainly believe this person can be responsible for his or her own job. It reminds me of a very old Chines Idiom: "Yi Ren Bu Yong, Yong Ren Bu Yi". By simply swift the word, the Chinese show's beauty and wisdom in its language. To translate it to maximize its original wit and philosophy but not in a poetic way, in English is " doubtful people you don't use, use people you don't doubt". Or in a better meaningful way, "once you choose to trust someone to do his/her job, don't doubt this person's ability and loyalty; otherwise, don't use him/her at the first place."
I remember when Prof. Joseph gave us a little test about Trust, only Shira and me raise hands for trusting people all the time in all situation. But by rethink this topic in human capital and social capital issue, what if someone is telling you one story but others telling a different story? then who should you trust? The majority? your own judgement? the one you more close to? or in a bigger scale: The media? The people from different sides? The government? The truth?
Fatima says Trust is a tree that rooted in Truth. I had a little disagreement. Because it is just one kind of Trust which simply based on the Fact. If Truth is objectively exist, then how to interpret it is base one individual's subjective perspectives, which one of these subjective perspective could produce different meaning and result in different conclusions: trust or not trust.
Trust could be a very tricky and dangerous game in one relationship between two people, what if we magnify it and use it among a group of people or we say, in the educational system?
However, I have my own way to deal with it simply: let it go to minimize the damage. In other word, trust yourself of doing the right thing and trust others will make the right choice eventually too. There are a lot of qualities required base on this assumption, so I will save the details for someone who might be interested in it.
In an educational organization, the relationship between employees, the principle and his teams, the teachers and students, the collaboration between schools, too many horizontally and vertically relationships need to be managed. The job cannot be simply carried by one charismatic and authentic leader, it needs the input both from human capital and social capital.
Not like in other cases, Trust is a subject that cannot be taught in the classroom. It could only be experienced, frustrated, recognized, confronted, analyzed, evaluated, and then be understood and reestablished. As educators, what we could maximumly do in this process is only provide most trustworthy environment, so when some little ones lost in any step of this reestablishing trust in him or herself, we can encourage and enlighten them and lead them to have a comparatively more positive attitudes to deal with the troubles it may occurred anytime later in their life, equipped with a stronger confidence inside and a deep empathy for the outside world.
Trust is a good thing that we should have it because it could make big thing happens. When we trust we will be able to work together. In other hand,we accept each one capability to work as a team. Or we could say that trust make us work easily. Here are some of my thoughts that I would like to share with you: 1. When we trust someone we will open mind to them and share value and idea to accomplish the goal. 2. Trust could make beautiful thing happen in the work place or we might say that trust is another perspective of positive thinking toward people. 3. Finally, when we trust each other we will have a power to reach the achievement.
trust is fundamental of our life. Trust can make hope and since we have hope, it make us have happiness even we have top confront with problems. As we have learned, trust also is in the field of educational leadership. Normally, trust is happened from experience. But sometimes it can be happened weather depends on experience or not. I absolutely agree that to establish trust is not easy, but to maintain trust is more harder. However about five factors that cause of trust happened for me I'm not so sure about that. In my experience, even we have not some of those five factors, trust still be able to happen. I think time is one of factor that can make trust happen too. I learned from my experience with Thai people. Moreover, in some situation, we can or have to trust "someone" no matter five factors will be showed or not. However, it doesn't mean these factors do not effective in trust building and maintaining trust. In application 1. I really love wording "building trust is hard, maintaining trust is harder." Then I have to learn to maintain trust. since it's not easy to make it happen and if I lose it, to bring it back may be take a long time or may be not happen forever. 2. We can't have the others trust in us if we have not trust in the others before. 3. Our living base on trust is happier than Living in the system or the rule. The more complex of social the less of trust happen. On the other hand the more our life is simple the more trust we have. 4. To make self-confidence for students, make trust in them.
In my own point of view based on the acronym TRUST ….a school leader must have the following Integrity… meaning honest, reliable, and trustworthy…Establish and maintain integrity. It is the foundation of trust in any organization. Integrity must begin at the top and then move down. This means, among other things, keeping promises and always telling the truth, no matter how difficult it might be. If its people have integrity, an organization can be believed. Consideration…he/she must be thoughtful to his staff and teachers. Consider all employees as equal partners. Trust is established when even the newest rookie, a part-timer, or the lowest paid employee feels important and part of the team. This begins with management not being aloof, as well as getting out and meeting the troops. This should be followed by leaders seeking opinions and ideas (and giving credit for them), knowing the names of employees and their families and treating one and all with genuine respect. Determination.. towards his/her work, never to yield what ever happened. Do what's right, regardless of personal risk. We all know intuitively what's "right" in nearly every situation. Following this instinctive sense, and ignoring any personal consequences will nearly always create respect from those around us. From this respect will come trust. –Jackie-
Trust is one of the most important factors to get along in the society. It is not easy to build and it is harder to maintain. When trust is broken, the repairing the broken trust is much harder than creating a trust between new members. Mostly, I understand that trust is usually used among families, lovers, and friendship. I have never thought of trust at work. By reading this article, I have realized a trust was broken between me and my principal from my former school. I don’t know that is called trust broke. We just watched each other’s steps. At last I quitted that school. As a school teacher, to gain the trust from the top management, colleagues, students and the parents of the students is really hard work. By reading this article, I have realized some points: • If people have job unsecured, the trust between colleagues and or with intrapersonal relations is shaken. Thus, the outcomes will be shifted to the negative. • If people don’t have the same ambition in which people just work for money and who work for passion as Fatima said, there will not be trusted between that two parties. • If people are not honest, there is no trust to work on.
Jerome said……..On page 4 of the article the author suggest that “the role of the principal as the moral agent and mediator of trusting relationships.” To me this also hints at the fact that the character of the principal dictates how powerful he can be at transformational changes. Which also hints at how authentic he/she is as a leader. To cultivate trusting relationships in my school, the following has to occur: 1. Collaboration identifies the professionalism an individual has and at what level of engagement, 2. Professional feedback that allows growth and continuous development, 3. An inclusive work environment or school culture that enables professionals to be included in decision-making, risk-taking, and professional development needs. In order to develop trusting relationships, time is also a huge factor that accounts for a high percentage of success. Professionals need time to work together, get to know each other, and develop a sense of comraderey in order trust. By getting to know your colleagues, one will know how to approach and implement change. One will also knows how to communicate with resisters and motivate those who are in need.
Do you trust people in general? Do you trust people around you? Do you trust people you care? Do you trust people you love? Do you trust yourself?
ReplyDeleteFrom the reading there are five facets, benevolence, honesty, openness, reliability, and competence, which I found pretty much match my cross-stick.
1.Openness - Truth, telling the truth sometime might make people feel vulnerable, that’s why it needs courage to do so.
2.Reliability - Reliability, exactly as I mentioned being qualified and accountable.
3.Benevolence - Understanding, being empathized, caring, considerate, and patient.
4.Honest - Sincerity, the sense of integrity is very important while leading people, you lead their hearts not just their bodies!
5.Competence - To-the-End, besides never give up and energy-driven, you need the capability to reach the goal, touchdown!
Here are some of my thoughts that I would like to share with you:
a.Trust yourself if you know you’re doing the “right” thing!
b.Trust people you love and care, with your trust, then they’ll trust in themselves to accomplish everything.
c.Trust people around you, so we can work as a team.
d.Trust people in general, so there’s hope in us.
Fondly, Shira
Bonnie said ---
ReplyDeleteIn recent years, the social relevance of trust has been well established in the social sciences and the obligation to foster trust in the work place and learning environments of schools has been strongly advocated. Information sharing and open communication are bases for trust. The more information you share with people, the higher morale is the higher the level of trust. The ideas of “hope” are framed in the sense of anticipation or expectation especially in the context of the personal and professional relationships that engender trust in schools.
Trust includes some characteristics of Truth, Reliability, Understanding, Sincerity and To-the-end.
1.Truth---have the courage to tell the truth.
2.Reliability---qualified and accountable, who can back you up.
3.Understanding---empathy, considerate, patience.
4.Sincerity---in order to build trust.
5.To-the-end---touch the goal and never give up.
I really agree with Shira’s thoughts about trust. Trust comes from your heart. Here is a poem about Trust. I want share with you.
Brief is Doubtful, Trust is Certain
Belief is from Mind, Trust is from Heart
Belief is Lip Service; Trust is Heart Felt
Believe many; Trust only a Few
Believing is Easy, Trusting is Hard
Belief scores 50%, Trust scores 100%
Belief is Ordinary; Trust is Extra-ordinary
Belief is Start point; Trust is End Point
Belief is Limited; Trust is infinite
Belief is Shaking Hands, Trust is Embracing
Belief keeps Control; Trust gives up control
Belief is jumping opportunities; Trust is staying
Belief is not Time Tested; Trust passes Tough Times
Belief is Partial; Trust is Complete
Believe in Thoughts; Trust your Instincts
Belief in God is Attempting; Trust in God is Surrender
Belief is Important; Trust is Essential
Osho said: Belief is Plastic Rose; Trust is Real Rose
Bonnie
The literature on trust is substantial. Despite this there is a sense that trust is not well understood. Many professionals do not know how to think about or examine trust relationships. Trust can be defined like love, we know it when we see it, and still we don’t know what or when or how build it. Trust is not an act or set of acts, but the result of other actions.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that trust is a judgment may explain why the concept of trust is naturally easy to understand but the supporting logic is complex and difficult to pin down. Judgment is an interactive process between the person doing the judging and whatever is being judged. This means that the disposition, needs and capacities of the individual making the judgment are an essential part of the equation, and that trust cannot be determined by the qualities of the object of trust alone. Something or someone may be highly trustworthy by certain standards, and yet not be trusted by people with different needs, standards, or levels of understanding. Likewise something or someone may be highly untrustworthy by common standards, yet be trusted by people who are naive, socially conditioned or have a need to trust. In both ways there is a strong intuitive link between the concept of trust and the concept of truth which is as complex as trust. I think trust is a tree and truths are a firmly rooted of that tree as an important qualification. Every tree has limits on the loads it can sustain before breaking or falling, and trees that appear to be solid may have shallow roots, inner rot, or any number of other conditions that make the tree weak. Before tying a lifeline to the tree it would be wise to do a rational assessment. This would lead to a calculation or estimate of the loads and forces the tree is capable of sustaining at different points. Next it would be necessary to calculate the dynamics of the loads that the tree would be subject to and compare these stresses to the tree’s load carrying capacity to determine the margins of safety or probability of failure. The key point here is that trust is formed with different levels of precision, depending on the needs of the situation and the level of skill and understanding of the people making the judgment.
Schools, or any work situation for that matter, involve many different 'players' and relationships, students, teachers, principals, parents, and central office personnel. Each of the relationships will carry their own expectations and will involve varying degrees and types of trust. But trust is the strength and quality of collaborative relationships, which would show up in every aspect of an organization or learning community where people are engaged with each other.
I think that transformation in school embarks on trust and trust is having key role in rapid progress of a company that demands extra endeavor and effort to be established and kept. In an organization with less trust among members the amount of ignorance and distort of facts and ideas are likely to rise which in turn increases the misunderstanding and less effective performance. But how well this trust is infused in organization is closely associated with the qualities of leader such as honesty, fairness, consistency and competency of him that are foundations of trust. Most people prefer to be led by person who can count on and doesn’t change his position. So, It is essential for the leader to be consistent in what they say and do and meet their commitments. Competent leaders who align their values with actions and make the followers clear with values and ideals by demonstrating them in action and exemplifying those ideals in their daily acts are more likely to establish high amount of trust in the organization.
ReplyDeleteIn general, I think if the principals are true renaissance people and they display commitment to the reforms and praise trust in their actions, and also provide every one with enough emotional support and opportunities to express themselves and work and learn with and from their colleagues, trust can be placed at the center of that organization’s performances.
I think "Trust" is a very fundamental and at the same time a very profound issue to be talked in the educational environment.
ReplyDeleteWhen doctor Andy and Fatima talking about once you trust someone and you will certainly believe this person can be responsible for his or her own job. It reminds me of a very old Chines Idiom: "Yi Ren Bu Yong, Yong Ren Bu Yi". By simply swift the word, the Chinese show's beauty and wisdom in its language. To translate it to maximize its original wit and philosophy but not in a poetic way, in English is " doubtful people you don't use, use people you don't doubt". Or in a better meaningful way, "once you choose to trust someone to do his/her job, don't doubt this person's ability and loyalty; otherwise, don't use him/her at the first place."
I remember when Prof. Joseph gave us a little test about Trust, only Shira and me raise hands for trusting people all the time in all situation. But by rethink this topic in human capital and social capital issue, what if someone is telling you one story but others telling a different story? then who should you trust? The majority? your own judgement? the one you more close to? or in a bigger scale: The media? The people from different sides? The government? The truth?
Fatima says Trust is a tree that rooted in Truth. I had a little disagreement. Because it is just one kind of Trust which simply based on the Fact. If Truth is objectively exist, then how to interpret it is base one individual's subjective perspectives, which one of these subjective perspective could produce different meaning and result in different conclusions: trust or not trust.
Trust could be a very tricky and dangerous game in one relationship between two people, what if we magnify it and use it among a group of people or we say, in the educational system?
However, I have my own way to deal with it simply: let it go to minimize the damage. In other word, trust yourself of doing the right thing and trust others will make the right choice eventually too. There are a lot of qualities required base on this assumption, so I will save the details for someone who might be interested in it.
In an educational organization, the relationship between employees, the principle and his teams, the teachers and students, the collaboration between schools, too many horizontally and vertically relationships need to be managed. The job cannot be simply carried by one charismatic and authentic leader, it needs the input both from human capital and social capital.
Not like in other cases, Trust is a subject that cannot be taught in the classroom. It could only be experienced, frustrated, recognized, confronted, analyzed, evaluated, and then be understood and reestablished. As educators, what we could maximumly do in this process is only provide most trustworthy environment, so when some little ones lost in any step of this reestablishing trust in him or herself, we can encourage and enlighten them and lead them to have a comparatively more positive attitudes to deal with the troubles it may occurred anytime later in their life, equipped with a stronger confidence inside and a deep empathy for the outside world.
- Kris
Trust is a good thing that we should have it because it could make big thing happens. When we trust we will be able to work together. In other hand,we accept each one capability to work as a team. Or we could say that trust make us work easily. Here are some of my thoughts that I would like to share with you:
ReplyDelete1. When we trust someone we will open mind to them and share value and idea to accomplish the goal.
2. Trust could make beautiful thing happen in the work place or we might say that trust is another perspective of positive thinking toward people.
3. Finally, when we trust each other we will have a power to reach the achievement.
trust is fundamental of our life. Trust can make hope and since we have hope, it make us have happiness even we have top confront with problems. As we have learned, trust also is in the field of educational leadership. Normally, trust is happened from experience. But sometimes it can be happened weather depends on experience or not.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely agree that to establish trust is not easy, but to maintain trust is more harder. However about five factors that cause of trust happened for me I'm not so sure about that. In my experience, even we have not some of those five factors, trust still be able to happen. I think time is one of factor that can make trust happen too. I learned from my experience with Thai people. Moreover, in some situation, we can or have to trust "someone" no matter five factors will be showed or not. However, it doesn't mean these factors do not effective in trust building and maintaining trust.
In application
1. I really love wording "building trust is hard, maintaining trust is harder." Then I have to learn to maintain trust. since it's not easy to make it happen and if I lose it, to bring it back may be take a long time or may be not happen forever.
2. We can't have the others trust in us if we have not trust in the others before.
3. Our living base on trust is happier than Living in the system or the rule. The more complex of social the less of trust happen. On the other hand the more our life is simple the more trust we have.
4. To make self-confidence for students, make trust in them.
In my own point of view based on the acronym TRUST ….a school leader must have the following
ReplyDeleteIntegrity… meaning honest, reliable, and trustworthy…Establish and maintain integrity. It is the foundation of trust in any organization. Integrity must begin at the top and then move down. This means, among other things, keeping promises and always telling the truth, no matter how difficult it might be. If its people have integrity, an organization can be believed.
Consideration…he/she must be thoughtful to his staff and teachers. Consider all employees as equal partners. Trust is established when even the newest rookie, a part-timer, or the lowest paid employee feels important and part of the team. This begins with management not being aloof, as well as getting out and meeting the troops. This should be followed by leaders seeking opinions and ideas (and giving credit for them), knowing the names of employees and their families and treating one and all with genuine respect.
Determination.. towards his/her work, never to yield what ever happened.
Do what's right, regardless of personal risk. We all know intuitively what's "right" in nearly every situation. Following this instinctive sense, and ignoring any personal consequences will nearly always create respect from those around us. From this respect will come trust. –Jackie-
Trust is one of the most important factors to get along in the society. It is not easy to build and it is harder to maintain. When trust is broken, the repairing the broken trust is much harder than creating a trust between new members. Mostly, I understand that trust is usually used among families, lovers, and friendship. I have never thought of trust at work. By reading this article, I have realized a trust was broken between me and my principal from my former school. I don’t know that is called trust broke. We just watched each other’s steps. At last I quitted that school.
ReplyDeleteAs a school teacher, to gain the trust from the top management, colleagues, students and the parents of the students is really hard work. By reading this article, I have realized some points:
• If people have job unsecured, the trust between colleagues and or with intrapersonal relations is shaken. Thus, the outcomes will be shifted to the negative.
• If people don’t have the same ambition in which people just work for money and who work for passion as Fatima said, there will not be trusted between that two parties.
• If people are not honest, there is no trust to work on.
Jerome said……..On page 4 of the article the author suggest that “the role of the principal as the moral agent and mediator of trusting relationships.”
ReplyDeleteTo me this also hints at the fact that the character of the principal dictates how powerful he can be at transformational changes. Which also hints at how authentic he/she is as a leader. To cultivate trusting relationships in my school, the following has to occur:
1. Collaboration identifies the professionalism an individual has and at what level of engagement,
2. Professional feedback that allows growth and continuous development,
3. An inclusive work environment or school culture that enables professionals to be included in decision-making, risk-taking, and professional development needs.
In order to develop trusting relationships, time is also a huge factor that accounts for a high percentage of success. Professionals need time to work together, get to know each other, and develop a sense of comraderey in order trust. By getting to know your colleagues, one will know how to approach and implement change. One will also knows how to communicate with resisters and motivate those who are in need.