This new edition of a classic, bestselling book has been revised and updated throughout and includes a new chapter on Forgiveness in the Workplace

An expert guide to resolving coworker conflicts and healing hurt feelings and resentments, to create a more productive—and pleasant—environment. Are you feeling less engaged, less committed, and more skeptical at work? Do you find yourself isolated? Or are you caught in the middle of co-workers’ interpersonal conflicts? If so, you may be experiencing the symptoms of broken trust in workplace relationships. Small but hurtful situations accumulate over time into the confidence-busting, commitment-breaking, energy-draining patterns consistent with broken trust. Everyone has experienced gossiping, missed deadlines, someone taking credit for other people’s work, or “little white lies.” You may have been hurt. You may have realized that you inadvertently let others down. Or you may be wondering how to help others reeling from broken trust. No matter your vantage point, this new book from two award-winning authors and consultants to top-tier organizations offers a proven seven-step process to heal pain and rebuild trust. This compassionate, practical approach helps you reframe the experience, take responsibility, forgive, let go, and move on. You can feel motivated to go to work again—and safe to be more fully who you are, giving your organization your best thinking, highest intention, risk-taking, and creativity. And in a place of self-discovery, self-trust, and authenticity, you can connect more fully with others in your personal life as well. While there have been many books on recovering from betrayal in personal relationships, this is the first to focus specifically on the workplace—and the first to give equal weight to what to do when you have hurt others. “Rebuilding trust is a job you cannot ignore if you want a thriving workplace. Don’t miss this book.” —John Kador, author of Effective Apology

Trust is a key differentiator for high-performing organizations. It makes bold initiatives possible, difficult transitions easier, and everyday workflow more effective. Yet trust can be hard to build and sustain because most people aren’t aware of the subtle and unintentional ways they test and break trust in their workplace relationships every day. In this updated edition of their award-winning book, Dennis and Michelle Reina show how anyone at any level—not just those at the top—can take action and change his or her behavior to create, build, and sustain trust in the workplace. Drawing on over twenty years of research and experience in hundreds of organizations, the Reinas define the three key dimensions of trust and describe the specific everyday behaviors that build each dimension. They provide a proven seven-step process for restoring trust when it’s been tested or betrayed and offer completely new material for strengthening self-trust. This book is about the power of trust: the energy that exists when it’s present, the pain that arises when it’s been broken, and the transformation that occurs when it’s been restored. This revised edition is a new and improved guide for people who want to unleash the power of what they’re able to accomplish through building trust-based workplace relationships.

In competitive global economy, organisations sometimes must make difficult or even painful changes. This title is about trust - the power when it exists, the problems when it doesn't, the pain when it is betrayed and what you can do to restore it. It provides an approach to trust that outlines a common language to discuss trust constructively.

In the face of fiscal scandals like Enron, this book offers a powerful research-based, field-tested model for building trust within an organization. With 70 percent new material, this revised and expanded edition is less academic than the first edition and includes new examples, tips, tools and exercises.