Trust Isn't a Box You Check. It's Built Daily.

What if the trust you thought you earned is being rebuilt or chipped away in every email you send, every meeting you run, every Slack you fire off without thinking? Andrea Butcher has spent years inside executive and leadership teams as a coach and facilitator, working on the being of leadership rather than the doing. That internal lens is what makes her take on trust different from most workplace advice. In this episode of Courage to Advance, Andrea joins Kim Bohr to explain the difference between predictive trust and vulnerability-based trust, why dropping the armor builds more than proving yourself, and how the smallest, everyday interactions decide whether trust grows or erodes. ─── ABOUT THIS EPISODE ─── Andrea Butcher is an executive coach and keynote speaker who works with executive and leadership teams on the being of leadership: the internal awareness and intentionality behind how leaders show up. She is the founder of Abundant Empowerment and host of the Being at Work podcast. Learn more: https://www.abundantempowerment.com ─── KEY TOPICS ─── ► Predictive trust vs vulnerability-based trust, and why the second builds connection ► How a driven CEO built trust with his team by holding back, not taking over ► Why your strongest trait can quietly become your biggest liability ► What labeling a difficult colleague costs you, and what to do instead ► Why dysfunction is normal, and what strong teams do that weak teams avoid ► The onboarding habit that backfires, and the conversation that builds connection ► Why every email, text, and Slack message either builds or erodes trust ─── CHAPTERS ─── 0:00 Trust is the thing every leader gets wrong 1:43 Why trust is the conversation right now 4:13 Taking the armor off in the executive room 5:08 The healthcare-tech CEO who led through restraint 9:00 Stop labeling, start asking 12:53 Reading a dysfunctional executive team 24:52 The report who carried a hurt for years ─── RESOURCES ─── ► Abundant Empowerment: https://www.abundantempowerment.com ► Being at Work podcast:    • Being [at Work] Podcast: Daily Doses of Le...   ►Connect with Andrea on LinkedIn:   / leaderdevelopmentcoach   ► SparkEffect Trust Study: https://info.sparkeffect.com/trust-st... ► SparkEffect: https://sparkeffect.com ► Connect with Kim Bohr:   / kimbohr   ─── ABOUT COURAGE TO ADVANCE ─── Courage to Advance brings senior HR and business leaders into honest conversation about leading people through real complexity. Hosted by Kim Bohr, CEO of SparkEffect. New episodes every second, third, and fourth Tuesday of each month. 🔔 Subscribe so you don't miss an episode 🎧 Listen on all platforms: https://sparkeffect.com/sparkeffect-p... ─── ABOUT SPARKEFFECT ─── SparkEffect helps leaders and organizations build trust as a measurable business strategy. We surface what others miss. 🌐 https://sparkeffect.com #LeadershipDevelopment #CHRO #OrganizationalTrust #ExecutiveCoaching #PeopleLeadership #HRLeadership #TeamCulture