Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Trusting you co-worker

In reading "Building the Bridges" by Parker, Cross one of the intersting things that I came across is the "persona book " (consiting of people, photos, job description, hobbies etc.) that was employed to introduce the workers relationship both on a personal and professional level. Now we all really are familiar with such information like this.

As far as our trust goes, does it really matter?
Well...I certainly think it absolutely does. Trust plays an important role between you and your co-worker (s). The reason being is that if you have established a relationship with someone, and now you and this individual are working on a big project. You really have to make acertain that you can count on this individual in order to complete the intended project. i.e you really need to count on someone when he/she agrees that this is to be done this and this day and at this and this time. Otherwise, if that cannot be accomplished you cannot longer depend and trust you co-worker as it might have an impact on yourself.

It is sort of like a group project in college, where you have members that each were assigned a certain topic but were not able to complete it in a timely fashion. This is where trust would break apart and you no longer would work with some of the team members more likely because you received a grade "C" as opposed to an "A".

4 comments:

Sang Min said...

I'm afraid it might be a silly question, but did you intend "this" in the first paragraph connected to "facebook" opening page?

If so, what does that mean?

majid said...

Trust is really big issue. I think with out trusting each other nothing would move forword in all life's aspects. The most important thing that we trust each other until something happen to change this view. So trust should be the base case at all the time.

管理者 said...

Trust is very important for team projects. Especially, when you do it in virtual way. For example, imagine that you have to complete an assignment with someone you've never met before by using Google Docs. I think its very difficult. If you have a chance to face your partner, you can decide how to devide the work and maybe threat him/her to do it on time. But in virtual collaboration, such threat have less impact. Your partner more easily betray you. Virtual collaboration is possible only when there is trust.

Taco said...

Sang Min-

Yes, I did intend "this" in the first paragraph. When I put this in, it was meant to refer you from "persona book" to the facebook where you have the similar information such as you profile.