The 5-Minute Trust Audit
Trust doesn't fail loudly. It leaks in what people quietly stop saying — and no one will ever tell you they've started routing around you.
No one sends a resignation letter that says they stopped trusting you eight months ago when you defaulted on a minor promise. The erosion of trust in a small business, church, school, or nonprofit never arrives as an announcement. It arrives as an absence. You discover a critical problem weeks after everyone else was already discussing it. Trust leaks in tiny increments, long before it shows up in performance reviews or exit interviews. Because no dashboard flags it, the only instrument you have is your own attention, which naturally drifts toward output and away from the people producing it.