TRUST!: Using Archetypal Language to Repair Broken Trust

David Hulings

Apr 2023 · Amazon Book Marketing Pros

About this eBook

The word trust is, perhaps, the most important word in leadership, organizational culture, and interpersonal relationships. We go to school to learn to be educators, doctors, mechanics, skilled tradespersons, scientists, and scores of other degreed and non-degreed occupations and skills. It is our hope to be proficient in our fields. Yet, in all those hours of learning, the average employee or leader has probably had little, if any, formal training on how to foster and develop, and/or repair and rebuild trust. That is a dangerous scenario.

TRUST! Using Archetypal Language to Repair Broken Trust is a book to equip the reader with skills on using intentional language to create trust between leaders and followers, colleagues or anyone we work with on a day-to-day basis, especially after trust has been dented, diminished, or destroyed. If we care about building a culture of trust, we must destroy our old frameworks and create new paradigms.

After reading this book, the reader will have specific strategies and structures to employ in their communications, which is the first step toward restoring trust. Communication is almost always a topic with regard to building and/or restoring trust, but it is often explained in broad terms and redundant platitudes.

In this book, we will look at the power of using specific adjectives and/or adverbs in our communication to build and transform trust. The book is a journey to discover word choices based upon the specific word bank we hear in the narratives of those with whom we are looking to foster enjoyable trust. (Hold on, even the words used in this paragraph will determine if you trust the contents of the book to turn the first page.)

 

About the author

Years ago, David was sent on a journey, but not by his own choosing or making. A broken marriage would end one career as a church pastor, but by God’s grace, it would also open the door to another. Executive leadership coaching was not on David’s life plan, but thirty years later after hundreds of one-on-one coaching sessions logged and thousands of hours of learning more, has changed that life plan. Since that devastating turn in the road, David has not only crafted a successful leadership coaching business, but has enjoyed every minute of it. Why? Because it has fulfilled the purpose of his life. Written on the wall of his office, it reads:

To be available, to provide tools, to equip leaders, to do good, to the glory of my God.

David has been blessed with a passion to transform the lives of those he meets, especially those who lead others. Hulings & Associates started out as a business, but has turned into a calling. Along with some amazing associates, David looks to find a way to equip leaders to get from point A to point B. This is why he refers to himself as a leadership coach. The etymology of coach is that of a buggy which was created to take you from where you are to where you want to go. Whether he is speaking, writing books and/or training modules, designing individualized leadership tools, or conducting one-on-one coaching sessions, his desire is to make sure clients and organizations archive their desired ends and reach their planned destinations.

When David is not engaged in transformation work, he enjoys life with his amazing wife, Robin May, along with their seven children and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Living on the west coast of Michigan, he loves traveling with Robin to their second home, Way Maker, their boat located on the west coast of Florida. To David, creativity begins on the water and ends up in his speaking and writing.