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Trust Me On This
Image by dalechumbley via Flickr Trust is the single most important factor in building relationships. We can forgive people for their mistakes and shortcomings; but once trust is lost, the...
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Using Social Media To Build Trust
Image by myoldpostcards via Flickr Social Media requires business thinkers and leaders to start acting like small-town shop owners. They need to build trust with their customers because social...
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Trust-Today’s Most Important Currency
Image by bfishadow via Flickr As a former FBI counterintelligence agent, I’ve spent a lot of time convincing people they could trust me. I needed information from them; in return, they needed to know...
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4 Ways to Build Conversations You Can Trust
Image by Jason-Morrison via Flickr Knowing when to trust the words we hear from others is difficult. When was the last time you were deceived? My guess is that the lie you most recently encountered...
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5 Ways to Pick Friends Wisely
I grew up on a large cattle ranch in a remote part of Wyoming. We were hours away from the nearest small town so I went to a little country school with one other pupil—my brother. During my grade...
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Trusting Others Makes You Feel Good
Most people do not react with enthusiasm when the FBI comes knocking at their door. It usually means either they, or someone they know, is in trouble. As a former FBI agent, I once interviewed a man...
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Pick Your Friends Wisely
I grew up on a large cattle ranch in a remote part of Wyoming. We were hours away from the nearest small town so I went to a little country school with one other pupil—my brother. During my grade...
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5 Spy Tricks to Create Trust with Others
As a counterintelligence FBI agent, people ask me how I could create trust when I lied to the targets of my undercover investigation about my identity. In my book, Secrets of A Strong Mind, I talk...
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What 5 Things Build Trust In A Relationship?
I spent most of my professional career trying to recruit foreign spies to work for the FBI. Foreign Intelligence Officers are trained to believe that FBI agents are not to be trusted because they are...
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Leadership, Trust, and the SyFy Channel
One of the reasons I decided to accept the offer to become the FBI spokesperson in Northern California is because I would be in a leadership position and able to cultivate trust with the public by...
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How To Build Trust With Others
As a former FBI counterintelligence agent, I needed to learn how to build trust with others. I needed information from them; in return, they needed to know that I could be trusted to keep our...
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FBI agents spend a great deal of time learning how to build trust with others. For that reason an agent’s most useful investigative tool is the interview. This is where trust is built—nose to nose,...
View Article5 Easy Ways To Persuade Others That You Are Trustworthy
FBI agents tend to be hard chargers who look at the world in terms of black or white, right or wrong, legal or illegal. It’s important that we are perceived as trustworthy because if the public cannot...
View ArticleThis Is How You Build Trust In Your Relationships
We already know that there will be people we encounter who will be untrustworthy, or worse, dishonest. We will face betrayals, big and small, in life. It might be a colleague, spouse, employer, or...
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