Character and Trust: Without Them is Like Exploring a Cave Without Proper Lighting, the Footing is Treacherous

This course is based on the premise that one typically hires for competence but fires for character.This course focuses on the character and trustworthiness of the individual. The course takes you through critical attributes of character and provides for gaining self-awareness of where one stands in their character through a key exercise. The emphasis is also on trust, a critical ingredient to successful relationship management. Several tools and approaches are discussed in the course that will assist and guide the individual in effectively evaluating the trustworthiness of themselves or others, including bosses, direct reports, peers.

Learning Objectives

To gain a better understanding of critical attributes of character
To gain self-awareness of one's own character
To learn an approach in evaluating the character of an individual
To learn various levels of trust (from individual to societal)
To understand the types of trust
To learn an approach to ascertaining the trustworthiness of you and others
To learn what a toxic trust environment looks like
To learn an antibiotic to deal with the toxic trust
To provide additional perspective to effectively develop people and minimize the adverse consequences of individuals and cultures with character and/or trust issues

Major Topics

Character Definition
Critical Character Attributes
Character Self-Awareness
Additional Character Identification Techniques
Trust Definitions
Waves of Trust
Four Cores of Trust
Toxic Trust and Antibiotics

CPE Credits Available

2.5 CPE

2.5: Management Services

Things to Know About This Course

Course Level

Intermediate

Prerequisites

None

Advanced Preparation

None

Intended Audience

All Professionals

Provider

ACPEN