Whole Leaders, Wild Trust

CHAPTER 5Mindset, Methods, and Measures: Moving from Gut Intuition to Intentional Change

You can’t build trust on instinct alone. True leadership begins when your mindset shifts, your methods deepen, and your measures start telling the whole story.

Trust is one of the most important currencies in our world today, but too often it feels like the air we breathe. We know we must have it to survive, but when we reach out to grab it, it floats between our fingers like a vapor and disappears. What if I told you that you could not only measure trust and take decisive action to build it, but also that your efforts to develop the people and leaders around you are one in the same? I spent most of my career developing a system of whole leader assessments, all contained in the WiLD Trust Platform, that were designed to build whole leader capacity. What we discovered over the years changed everything. Developing whole leaders and building sustaining trust involves more than measures of our progress. It also includes a shift in our mindset and the way we actually do the hard and important work of developing ourselves and others—a methodology that changes everything.

Before we can invest in developing ourselves and others as whole leaders—or begin measuring and building the trust we long for—we must first clarify our mindset, our methods, and the measures that will drive real change.

Mindset: The Way We See Everything

We’ve all heard the phrase “mindset matters.” It sounds like a motivational ...