Failure to achieve consensus can take your company down, as leaders at a number of organizations in recent history can attest. What if you were running one of those companies, and you realized in hindsight that the failure didn’t need to happen? Well, it doesn’t – most of the time.

Andy Atkins, Director of Strategic Collaboration Consulting at Interaction Associates, reviews the key findings of the Research Report: Building Trust in Business. This on demand webinar covers:

With our trust assessment tool, leaders can measure trust across the company, within a division, in a department, or among team members.   Measuring trust is just the first step. The tool also includes practical tips for building deeper trust in lasting ways. Jay Cone explores how in this podcast.

For more information on this tool, and a blank assessment form, read Jay's paper here.

You are invited to a complimentary webinar, presenting our 2009 research in the overlapping areas of Trust, Leadership and Collaboration. After all, building trust with customers and employees is vital, but how do top performing companies do it?

We have powerful answers – research from 150 companies and 211 executives across the business world. To celebrate our 40th Anniversary, Interaction Associates commissioned major research on the overlapping areas of trust, leadership, and collaboration.

How does building trust with customers and employees help your business achieve key business goals? What are top performing companies doing to deepen trust and succeed in key areas?

Those questions and others are explored in our new research report, Building Trust in Business.

Interaction Associates has just released the full report on our timely research, Building Trust in Business — containing the highly anticipated survey results from more than 150-companies across the business spectrum. If you are looking to know more about what causes people to trust the institutions of which they are a part, Building Trust in Business has a treasure trove of insights.

The old saw, "everything old is new again", certainly applies to the field of collaboration. While technology has moved ahead by leaps and bounds, the important everyday practices that form the foundation of healthy and effective group practice remain much the same. One big difference: Nowadays, collaboration is seen as vital to achieving success strategically.

You hear a lot about collaboration these days — in the business world especially. It seems nearly everyone wants to know how to collaborate more effectively to achieve greater results in an ever more complex and interdependent world.

Yet, for most companies, two overlapping considerations are important: 1) Whether it makes sense to invest in building your company’s collaborative capability, and, 2) How to explore ROI when deciding whether to invest in becoming more collaborative.

What are some of the key takeaways from the recent Building Trust in Business best practices study?

We live in a curious time and certainly in business, this is one of the most challenging economies in anyone’s memory. There are negative indicators everywhere and nearly every company is challenged with adapting to operating amid great, though perhaps not permanent, uncertainty and shifting markets. Approval ratings for leaders and others in positions of authority— in every arena — at a dramatically low point.