Building Relational Trust

Key Takeaways
- People don't want to work with people who they do not trust.
- Trust and collaboration are the key for raising student achievement
- To bring about change it requires a lot of effort and staff need to have the opportunity to experiment.
- If trust is built people feel they are not alone, they can share the burden, the seek help from others and they feel they can take risks to bring about change.
- If there is no trust, people go into there own shell, don't take risks, feel vulnerable and want to protect themselves.
- The effect on students when there is high level of trust in a school over time it raises student achievement.

How to Build Quality Trust 
- Daily interactions are one of the most important factors. It forms deep respect and it shows you are ready to listen.
- Following through with discussions
- Walking the talk
- Courageous
- Don't avoid difficult issues

To deliver change you need relational trust and doing the work together 

Reflections

- Need to ensure I am in the staff room each day, building interactions and conversations with staff. This is something that does not always come easily.
- Ensure to attend all staff functions and staff celebrations
- Ensure staff feel appreciated when taking risks
- Ensure staff feel like they can experiment, ask questions to support. If things don't work out discuss rather than support.
- Don't avoid challenging conversations