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Healing from Brokenness: 5 Ways to Rebuild Trust When It Has Been Broken

This week, I have heard from three seasoned leaders about their trust journey in leadership. Each of these leaders have experienced bad leadership. They’ve dealt with mistrust, ineffective leadership, insecurities in power, mismanagement of finances and much more. And when organizations lead out of mistrust and hurt, human brokenness tends to rise. And trust deteriorates.

BUT,

  • How do your rebuild trust when you have lost it organizationally?

  • How do you heal from those who have lost your trust personally?

  • How do you regain influence when others don’t trust you?

These are great questions. In fact, most people do NOT know how to regain trust. Most live a life of unforgiveness, resentment, “saltiness”, suspicion. In other words, we live with ghosts. This effects everything we do and who we are. And ultimately, when leaders who do NOT trust, build trust, and/or rebuild trust then leadership, influence, and impact will plateau (and eventually decline).

This is why leaders NEED to rebuild trust and heal from mistrust.

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