CHAPTER 5
Competence
I know I can do this—I don’t know if I can do that
Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we are more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.
—Magdeleine Sable
When you trust someone is competent, it means you believe they have the ability to do a particular task or job. Trust in a person’s competence usually also means you expect they will tell you if they can’t do something and ask for help.
Here are three examples of how three people I know have referred to competence:
- “I brought Linda in to run the office after Ron left so suddenly because I trust her ability as a leader to get the best out of people even in the most difficult situations. I ...
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