It seems like trust has been a pretty popular topic lately.  I guess it should be no surprise if you buy into what David Horsager states in his recently released “The Trust Edge.  Horsager states “trust, not money, is the real currency in business and life.”

A friend of mine, Dan Forbes, who heads up the #LeadWithGiants community, approached me to co-host a tweetchat on the idea of trust and leadership and how consistency plays a role in both.

I will be honest with you – I had previously participated in a tweetchat only one time, and for less than 10 minutes so I really had no idea what I was getting into.  No worries – Dan had it all simplified – all I had to do was trust that Dan would have my back and he had to trust that I would come through.

Dan and I put together a blog post to be used to introduce the tweetchat topic.  You can click on this link to read “Leadership, Consistency, and Trust“.  The snapshot is that I shared how the practice of consistency has both helped and hurt me in my professional and personal life and how I need to become more consistent if I really want  the Trust Edge.

The tweetchat is over and honestly, I had a lot of fun with it and was actually encouraged by the collaboration and great input contributed by many of my peers in the game of leadership development.

I won’t go into every detail but want to share the ten questions that were discussed during the tweetchat:

• How do you define trust?
• Do you think trust or money is the currency of life?  Why?
• Character, Commitment, Consistency; which is the most important in building trust?
• How does consistency build trust?
• What steps can be taken to rebuild broken trust?
• How does consistency help you personally balance work vs. life?
• What do we forfeit when we are inconsistent?
• Do you think most people are the same online as they are in real life?
• What are your strategies for a trusted online presence, brand or reputation?
• What one thing, if you did it consistently over the next 6 months, would most impact your life?

The answers were some of what you would expect and then again, some of what you wouldn’t.  The thing that really made me think had nothing to do with the questions themselves.  It was the level of engagement by the participants and the honesty that was included in the responses.

Why does this matter?  I find it very interesting that I sometimes trust people that I have only met in a virtual world more than some of those that I see everyday.

Is there people that you have never met that you trust more than some that you see every day?  More importantly, Why?

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Barry Smith   www.buildingwhatmatters.com      4/1/13            photo by author