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Trust, Honesty and Credibility in the Work Place In the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, trust is defined as- 1 a: to place confidence: DEPEND b: to be confident: HOPE 2: to sell or deliver on credit transitive senses1 a: to commit or place in one's care or keeping ENTRUST b: to permit to stay or go or to do something without fear or misgiving 2 a: to rely on the truthfulness or accuracy of: BELIEVE b: to place confidence in rely on c: to hope or expect confidently. There are many forms of trust: Lateral - trust relations among peers or equals. Vertical - trust relations between a supervisor and subordinate. External - trust relations between an organization and its clients or suppliers. The lateral trust involves your fellow employees; they need to know that they can depend on you if ever the time should come. This involves doing things that they aren’t around for or able to do- in other words you are standing in for them, taking their place. The way to build their trust on you is to show them that you know all there is to know about the subject. This means jumping at opportunities to do things that they don’t think you’re ready for and you proving them wrong. Vertical trust i