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A retired CIA officer is teaching the formula professionals use to build trust

Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read

The Trust Equation Workshop

Wednesday 8 April | 18:00 CET | Zoom | Free

Dear Reader

Most people think intelligence is about information.

  • Satellites
  • Data
  • Open-source scraping

It is not.

The most valuable intelligence I have ever received in my career came from relationships. And relationships are built on one thing: trust.

There is a formula for it.

It was developed by Maister, Green, and Galford, and it is taught in every serious intelligence training programme in the world.

We teach it in our HUMINT Fundamentals course.

It is called The Trust Equation.

Trust = (Credibility + Reliability + Intimacy) / Self-Orientation

Next Wednesday (8 April, 18:00 CET), Ray White, a retired CIA Senior Operations Officer who teaches on our HUMINT Fundamentals course, is running a free 60-minute live Zoom webinar where he will break down exactly how intelligence professionals use this equation to build trust that produces results.

Here is what Ray will cover:

  1. The four variables that determine whether someone trusts you, and how to measure each one.
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  2. Why self-orientation is the trust killer that nobody talks about.
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  3. How to apply the Trust Equation in negotiations, source development, due diligence, and everyday professional relationships.
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  4. A self-assessment framework you can use immediately.

We are giving it away for free because I think it matters.

Spots are limited. We want to keep it small enough for a proper Q&A with Ray at the end.

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Ahmed Hassan
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