Episode 71: Q2 Close - The Trust Audit Most Leaders Skip

Episode 71: Q2 Close - The Trust Audit Most Leaders Skip

From A Student of Leadership - Real Leaders. Real Growth. One Table. by Robert Adams

June 30, 2026 · 11 min · Episode 71

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In this episode, Robert Adams discusses the importance of auditing small behaviors that can destroy trust within teams.

This week's Play: Repair the small trust break before it compounds. Trust is not lost in the dramatic moment. It is lost in the pattern of small things. In this Q2 close episode of A Student of Leadership, Robert Adams returns to The Napkin, the seventh element of the Place Setting Framework, with the question that closes the quarter. What are the small behaviors that quietly destroy trust, and how do you audit yourself honestly enough to catch them before your team gives up? This is the Q2 close. Thirteen weeks of the Place Setting Framework. Seven elements introduced, with several on their second pass. The full table has been set, and parts of it have been set twice. In this episode: - Why the leaders who derail at senior levels do not derail because of strategic failures - Marshall Goldsmith's research, accumulated over decades, on the small behavioral patterns that compound into lost trust - Five small trust-destroyers most leaders do not see in themselves - Why the people closest to the pattern are usually the last ones to see it - The audit that matters most is the one the team runs on the leader every day - Why AI cannot run this audit for the leader - The Q2 close: where…

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