Values Archives - Lea Brovedani

Trust During the Coronavirus Pandemic

March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 by Lea Brovedani

One of the most important aspects of creating trust is showing you care. At this time we need to reach out and show our care to people who may be feeling frightened or isolated. We need to ‘touch’ each other with our concern and love even as we physically distance ourselves from others. Check on neighbors, friends … Read more

Sometimes Trust Sucks!

February 25, 2020January 28, 2020 by Lea Brovedani

Have you ever given your word to someone and then not delivered? I’ve missed deadlines lately and, for “The Trust Architect” who knows that trust can be lost with small promises that are not kept, I am feeling beyond anxious. I have a million excuses but even to my own ears, they sound a little … Read more

Don’t Blow Up – How to Keep New Workers Safe

February 25, 2020November 19, 2019 by Lea Brovedani

His shirt was neatly pressed and he stood up when I walked into the interview room. He ran his clammy hands on his trousers before extending one to shake my hand. I would be interviewing this 19-year-old young man for a position with a telecommunication company, and in a region that had high unemployment, this was … Read more

A Little Bit More

February 25, 2020October 15, 2019 by Lea Brovedani

I was standing in a slow-moving line at the post office. In situations when I know that I have no control over the time or state of affairs, I talk to others around me. Is that what you do too? She was elegant in the style of the ’60s. Her carefully sculpted hair, large glasses … Read more

Knowing & Doing

July 25, 2019 by Lea Brovedani

When I was an HR manager, we did competency-based interviews. We wanted examples from people who could show us they could do what they said they could do. This was the first step in finding the right people for the job. Questions were used to find out how they used specific skills and how they approached problems, tasks or challenges…

Referrals – What you absolutely need to know!

July 17, 2018 by Lea Brovedani

They received a huge stack of speaker applications but when my friend Paula Morand gave the event organizer a call and gave me a glowing recommendation it made all the difference to the people deciding who to hire. I got the keynote and the opportunity to spread my message of trust to a new audience. Paula knows the organization and is well respected by the people in power. She’s seen me present. She knows what I talk about and her referrals are golden. It’s gone both ways. I’ve referred people to Paula and have called and tipped the scale on the plus side for Paula when a colleague who was vacillating on using her services. I have a great deal of respect for Paula and I know she feels the same.

It got me thinking. What do you absolutely need to know to give a good referral? What must you do to get a referral?

Tolerance and Trustworthiness – Finding the better way!

February 9, 2019June 18, 2018 by Lea Brovedani

What if we worked at tolerance? I read a post hiding bigotry and hatred by posing it as a fight against political correctness. It was dishonest and untrustworthy. They posited that not accepting their fight against “political correctness” was a sign of intolerance, weakness and dangerous to society because it hides the “real” problems. They weren’t talking about political correctness, which is meant to stand for fairness and open-mindedness, but the new subverted meaning, which is described as a condescending way of talking and elitist principles that wastes time.

Yoga, Trust and the Art of Life

May 15, 2018May 15, 2018 by Lea Brovedani

Did you know that I lived in India for a year from 2011 to 2012? Ric was on an assignment that was supposed to last 3 years which unfortunately was shortened to one year but oh my, what a year. I love India! It was a year where I got to write, speak in exotic … Read more

Politics & Trust

April 13, 2018 by Lea Brovedani

I made a comment to a friend the other day about how people are connecting on Facebook and sharing their opinions on everything political. I said I liked and trusted people more when I didn’t know their politics. I should add I trust people more when their politics are the same as mine. I was … Read more

What 5 World Class Screw-Ups Can Teach You About Trust

March 21, 2018March 20, 2018 by Lea Brovedani

It was Eleanor Roosevelt who said, “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather learn from someone else’s screw-up. It’s less painful, and your reputation doesn’t suffer.

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