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Develop trust with your protégé

Develop trust with your protégé

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Develop trust with your protégé

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- If I had to choose one quality that I've learned from research that makes or breaks a mentoring relationship, trust wins the prize. In my research, I found that trust is about loyalty, it is about being vulnerable by sharing what is sacred, secret, and potentially damaging. In the words of my interviewee, the former U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin, you can always tell how much another person trusts you by the amount of damage you can inflict on them. You see this at the White House, in the sense that the people who can damage you the most are very close to you. But how do you actually develop the crucial quality of trust in a mentoring relationship. In this video, we will discuss how you can develop and maintain trust with your protegee through the three Ds, dialogue, diagnosis, and delivering on promises. The first D is dialogue. Have the conversation about trust with your protegee. Dialogue about what trust is, and what it means to each of you. Ask questions of your protegee, and…

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