I say yes to building trust but I believe there is something even more foundational to trust. It is a key building block to establishing a trusting relationship.
Communications! Did you know that one of the first targets in war is the communication lines. If you can successfully cut them off it will seriously decrease the enemy's ability to respond to attacks both on the defense and offense. Closer home the source of many troubled marriages is poor communications. Sometimes it is so bad there is no communication.
It's like the husband and wife that are arguing. (None of you reading my blog has ever argued with their spouses, have they?) The husband realizes that he has to wake at 4:30am to catch a flight. He decides to write a note to his wife and leave it on her pillow. It says "please wake me at 4:30am to catch a flight." As morning comes he is awakened to the bright sun, he hops out of bed to find his wife when he sees a note on his night stand. It says, "It's 4:30am, GET UP!
How about "ASAP"? Do you use this acronym? What exactly does this mean? In these same groups I ask this very question. I hear everything from "now" to "sometime this week." There just does not seem to be any explanation as to what this really means.
Well, this post is already too long and I am too tired so come back and read more.
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