If you want engagement, don’t keep secrets

There’s a simple truth when it comes to relationship building: If you want someone to trust you, you can’t keep a lot of secrets. People find it very difficult to trust an unknown commodity. To get more engagement with others, to build more trust with others, to push away the secrets, try these two strategies. ► 1. Kick down the …

Your credibility is on the line: Protect it now

Perhaps you remember the Ghostbuster movies. You may remember their theme song as well, a song that kept asking, “Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!” These days, we are forced to ask a much more serious question. And that is, “Who you gonna trust?” It’s quite a challenge. In the course of my research on trust, truth, and honesty, I made …

The truth will set you free…

Whether you’re a faith-based person or not, almost everyone would agree with Jesus’ declaration: “The truth will set you free. That’s why the first step in any autocratic, dictatorial regime is to shut down the free flow of information. They know that if the people know the truth, the whole truth, the people wouldn’t put up with the lies being …