back COUNSELING Building Trust 10 Questions for Leaders    From High Performance Teamwork and Built on Trust training courses 1. Identify any currently unresolved pretended or "soft" commitments you have made. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 2. Circle the most important one to study and resolve. 3. Why did you make this commitment? How have you justified it in your mind? Please be very thorough. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 4. If you have more than one pretended commitment listed under question #1, are any of these justified in the same or similar manner? Which? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 5. Regardless of the justifications under question #4, have negative consequences accrued around your circled example above? If so, what? Interpersonal consequences? Productivity consequences? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 6. Are there actions on your part that might initiate resolution? If so, what? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 7. If communication is part of your strategy under question #7, how would initiate communication? What words would you use? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 8. List below any currently unresolved pretended commitments for which you will initiate resolution, and by when. Real commitments, please. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 9. How are pretended commitments affecting your teams? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 10. What might you do to build a culture based on 100% real commitment? How might you open communication on this subject, starting today? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________    © 2009 Learning Center Incorporated All rights reserved. For free consultation on your critical team/leader/performance issues, or leadership training seminars in California or your own state/country email info@learningcenter.net . back