What are signs of integrity and trustworthiness?

Answer 1

A great sign of integrity and trustworthiness is when someone's words and actions are in alignment. We see it in little things: People saying they will be at a meeting at 9AM and then showing up. People saying they will work to achieve X goal and then working until they achieve it.

Integrity means "the state of being whole or complete", so what we say and what we do have to "be in alignment" in order for us to have integrity.

Trustworthiness will natually emanate from someone who has integrity. That person will also speak authentically and you may even notice that the person seems more "real" or "present" than someone with no integrity or who is not trustworthy.

A sign that someone is NOT trustworthy is that they tell lots of stories. Instead of just speaking in the realm of "what is so", they instead choose to dump irrelavent narratives on people.

Example: "Why were you late"? Trustworthy answer: "I was late because I forgot the meeting. I should have called to let people know I'd be late. I am sorry. It won't happen again."

Untrustworthy answer: "See man, you see the thing is, my cousin showed up at my house and then his car needed a jump and I had to help him and then my kids were running around all crazy-like and needed to be fed."

You can clearly see the difference between the untrustworthy story and the trustworthy, factual response.

People create their worlds with their words and there are many of us who have never learned to use our words to our own advantage - to authentically express ourselves - to tell the truth as far as we know it - to have integrity in all our dealings with people - they are truly values to strive for if you want to live life powerfully and authentically.

I hope this answer was helpful to you in distinguishing the distinctions "integrity" and "trustworthy".

One last thing: Trust your gut instinct. If you think someone is full of it, then go with it. That will help build your "trust-o-meter" as time goes on.

Answer 2

Integrity and honesty in the job interview must be conveyed. The interviewer will likely not recommend a candidate who lacks one of these qualities. The company must be able to trust the employee.

Answer 3

if you are not to yourself how can you be to anyone else

Answer 4

Its making Your Yes to be Yes and Your No to be No which means to a man of Your word...