{"id":641,"date":"2012-03-28T08:12:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T07:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/?p=641"},"modified":"2014-05-14T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T16:33:21","slug":"trust-a-foundation-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/2012\/03\/28\/trust-a-foundation-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust &#8211; A Foundation for Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Cindy Vallance<\/p>\n<p>Recently in our Change Academy blogs we have discussed principles that inform a thinking environment to foster change, overcoming myths about change, and have shared a range of perspectives on change.<\/p>\n<p>For instance our 26 March blog on <a title=\"Management by fact or management WITH facts?\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/2012\/03\/26\/management-by-fact-or-management-with-facts\/\"><em>management with facts<\/em> <\/a>emphasises the importance of\u00a0 trust\u00a0which enables us to look at facts\u00a0together to inform productive discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that there can be no change without risk. And there can be no appetite for risk-taking without a strong foundation of trust.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trust<\/strong> has something in common with the weather and motherhood&#8230;it is widely talked about and widely assumed to be good for organisations. &#8221; Parke &amp; Miller, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>In the next few blogs, I will discuss why we trust, how we define trust, strategies we can use to build trust, and what we can do if trust has been eroded or broken.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. &#8221; Anton Chekhov<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cindy Vallance Recently in our Change Academy blogs we have discussed principles that inform a thinking environment to foster change, overcoming myths about change, and have shared a range of perspectives on change. For instance our 26 March blog on management with facts emphasises the importance of\u00a0 trust\u00a0which enables us to look at facts\u00a0together &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/2012\/03\/28\/trust-a-foundation-for-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trust &#8211; A Foundation for Change<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118935,119321],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3742,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/3742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}