Becoming a Trust Builder

Presented by Charles Feltman

Course preview:

This course will provide participants with an overview of a powerful framework and set of distinctions for building, maintaining and, when necessary, restoring trust. The material that will be presented is "practical and actionable, and at the same time deep and meaningful" as described by Brené Brown, author of Dare to Lead. Participants will be able to use the framework that is presented right away to strengthen trust in relationships that matter to them. And with practice they will find it allows them to help others become better trust-builders.

Participants will:

-Come away with a new and useful perspective on what trust is and how it relates to distrust.

-Recognize trust-building is a competency that can be learned, practiced and improved.

-Learn a definition of trust and trusting that will allow them to see it as a choice, with risks and rewards, that opens the possibility of vulnerability and intimacy.

-Realize trusting someone is not a binary, either or, decision; instead it is a dynamic choice, with a range of possibilities.

-Learn how to use the presenter's trust framework to wisely consider whether, and to what extent, to trust others.

-Learn how to apply the framework to check and, if necessary, increase their own trustworthiness.

Bio:

Charles Feltman

Charles Feltman has been coaching, facilitating, consulting for, and training people who lead others for over 25 years. An overarching goal in his work is that his clients achieve what they consider to be their full potential as leaders and as human beings. Prior to starting his coaching and consulting business he spent a decade in leadership roles in technology industry companies. Today Charles’ work is concentrated in three primary areas: Coaching Individual Leaders and Leadership Teams, Leadership Development Programs, and Supporting Trust at Work.

Clients include executives, managers and teams from Aeris, Aerospace Corp., Calstar Air Ambulance, Cambrex, Cognizant, Comfort Systems, Crescent Bank, Evolve, Genpact, Intel, Los Angeles Metro Transit District, Siemens, ST Microelectronics, SealedAir, UCB (Pharma), Texas Interfaith Housing Corp., UCSF, NASA, US National Park Service, USDA, Heifer Project International, and The Nature Conservancy, and numerous smaller companies and start-ups.

Charles holds a BA in psychology from U.C. Santa Cruz and a master's in organization development from the University of Southern California. He has a Professional Certified Coach credential from the International Coach Federation. He is certified to administer and debrief The Leadership Circle Profile 360, MBTI, DiSC, and the Triscendance Trust Assessment for Leaders and Teams. He is also a certified husband, father and grandfather.