Press Pause on Distrust

Are Toxic Trust Issues Poisoning Teams and Derailing Progress?
This App Helps Turn Your Biggest Obstacle Into Your Biggest Asset

Distrust Differently™

About us

As a StrengthFinder® consultant, you've likely seen how a single toxic team member anchored in distrust can undermine everyone's potential. Negative mindsets spread like a virus. Individuals act from the kryptonite of their strengths. Morale and outcomes plunge. You feel powerless to turn it around.

But now there's a way to equip even the most distrust-prone clients with self-awareness and skills to respond thoughtfully versus destructively.

Introducing The Distrust Appraisal Tool: the first solution of its kind to turn trust barriers plaguing teams into catalysts for growth.

This web app provides real-time support when distrust is triggered, guiding constructive response through interactive prompts. Over time, new neural pathways form, embedding trust-building behaviors.

The result? You help teams progress from corrosive dysfunction to high function. Moving forward with trust, cohesion and strengths alignment.

Find out how this Tool finally gives you an answer to the trust issues holding your clients back.

Distrust Appraisal Tool Endorsements

  • "I've never seen a tool that delivers real-time support when distrust strikes like the Appraisal. With its guided prompts and self-awareness cultivation, it transforms triggers from liabilities into catalysts for growth."

    Laurel Wiers, LMFT. Author, therapist, consultant and speaker.

  • "I was immediately impressed by the validity of the Appraisal process and how it revealed the reasons why I trust and distrust. This process meets you in the critical moments of your emotional triggers and provides in-the-moment support when it’s needed most."

    Dr. Kozhi Sidney Makai, PhD, PsyD. Performance Psychologist

  • "This tool meets users in critical emotional trigger moments and provides real-time support. The guided process gives clear steps to transform reactions into thoughtful responses, promoting self-awareness to convert vulnerabilities into growth catalysts."

    Gary Corbett, Founder and Chief Strategist, Group C Advisors, LLC

  • "After reading Joseph's book Trust Me, this Appraisal Tool brought a major paradigm shift to my work - moving teams from just building trust to mitigating dysfunctional distrust."

    Bert Robinson, President and Founder, Inpowering People

What you will get

Discover how to:

  • Diffuse instinctive reactions sabotaging progress

  • Build a common trust language into your practice

  • Practice critical trust-building conversations

Problems Solved:

  • Clients/teams get stuck due to unaddressed trust issues undermining progress

  • Discovering strengths doesn't automatically resolve weaknesses around trust

  • Need simple, accessible tools to address trust barriers situationally

  • Hard to make strengths-focused progress when distrust persists

  • Need ways to quickly diffuse reactive distrust when it derails clients

Outcomes Provided:

  • Ability to guide clients through distrust triggers in the moment

  • Tangible process to transform instinctive reactions into thoughtful responses

  • Increased self-awareness of core vulnerabilities that fuel distrust

  • Method to turn distrust into a compass for situational trust-building

  • Pathway to use distrust triggers as growth opportunities, not liabilities

  • Shared language and toolkit to constructively address trust barriers

  • Ability to couple strengths development and trust tools for real change

Complement strengths-based development with a targeted tool that addresses trust barriers situationally when they obstruct progress.
This enables you to unlock the full potential of strengths-focused work.

FAQs

  • The Distrust Appraisal Tool is the first of its kind - it allows you to provide in-the-moment support to clients during their trigger moments. Through interactive prompts, you can guide them to recognize and reframe these triggers, enabling deeper breakthroughs and lasting change. Unlike typical "won and done" assessments, our tool empowers you to offer ongoing value.

  • Absolutely. By using the Distrust Appraisal Tool, you can easily re-engage past clients and extend short-term engagements into longer-term, more lucrative ones. You'll be equipped to help individuals and entire teams overcome distrust and dysfunction. This positions you as a high-value coach who can drive meaningful transformation.

  • We understand the importance of your investment. That's why we provide comprehensive training and support to ensure your success with the tool. You'll receive a facilitator deck, script, handouts, group training, and even 1-on-1 guidance from the tool's creator. We're committed to empowering you to extract maximum value and expand your impact as a coach.

  • Not at all! The Distrust Appraisal Tool is designed to be user-friendly for both you and your clients. With our thorough training resources and intuitive web app interface, you'll be able to seamlessly integrate this powerful methodology into your coaching practice. Technical proficiency isn't a barrier to leveraging this breakthrough tool.

It’s easy
to get started:

  1. Book a call with me

  2. We’ll explore your unique situation

  3. Empower you with tools to avoid won and done and create higher-paying engagements

Six Stages of Distrust™: From Trigger to Trust

Are you a Strengthsfinder® consultant or coach? Do you find trust issues sabotaging progress?

I felt your pain. That's why I created a proven methodology and web app that guides people through in-the-moment triggers and transforms distrust into conscious trust-building.

This is a powerful new tool for navigating distrust.

You'll receive:

  • Full access to the Distrust Trigger Appraisal web app

  • Comprehensive facilitator slide deck, PDF graphic handouts, and speaker notes

  • Script to guide clients through the process

  • 2 hour live online group training

  • 1 hour one-on-one training with me

  • A free copy of my book Trust Me

If you're ready to equip clients with proven ways to move from distrust to trust, this is the perfect opportunity. Book a call now to discuss participation:

Combining TrustxDistrust’s™ methodology with Strengthsfinder® gives you a powerful toolkit to manage distrust and foster trust. Transform not just what your clients and teams achieve but WHO they can become.

“TRUST ME BY JOSEPH MYERS IS AN INDISPENSABLE GUIDE FOR ANYONE SEEKING TO CULTIVATE TRUST WITHIN TEAMS. WITH HIS REMARKABLE ABILITY TO TRANSLATE CUTTING-EDGE BRAIN SCIENCE INTO ACTIONABLE STRATEGIES, MYERS PRESENTS A CAPTIVATING AND PRACTICAL TOOLKIT THAT HAS BECOME MY GO-TO RESOURCE.”
— REX MILLER. INTERNATIONAL AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR

Don't let distrust derail progress.

Distrust Differently™

Join the Movement to build trust and unlock potential!

About the founder

In today's interconnected world, trust is the essential fabric weaving through all our interactions, yet organizations and individuals grapple with the challenge of cultivating trust. This pervasive trust deficit is what I address head-on as the founder of TrustxDistrust and the creator of The Distrust Appraisal Tool (trustxdistrust.com).

I specialize in guiding individuals and teams to "Distrust Differently. Trust Decisively. Prepare Strategically." My approach reshapes the foundations of trust, turning traditional concepts on their head to foster more robust and dynamic relationships. I empower teams to form stronger, more resilient bonds crucial for any successful entity.

My best-selling book, "Trust Me: Discovering Trust in a Culture of Distrust”, delves deep into the nuanced interplay between trust and distrust, presenting innovative research and strategies that have reshaped organizational dynamics. TrustxDistrust is committed to reengineering how trust is conceptualized, nurtured, and leveraged, ensuring it's done with deliberate purpose and strategic insight.

Embark on a transformative journey with me to redefine the essence of trust and learn to forge enduring, prosperous communities that yield tangible growth.