You may know your IQ (Intelligence Quotient). You have some sense of your EQ (Emotional Intelligence).

But what about your TQ — your Trust Quotient?

And what’s your Trust Style™?

Just how trustworthy are you—what is your TQ? What does it mean to be trustworthy? And what can you do to improve your TQ?

What is your Trust Style™? Are you a Professor or Expert? Connector or Catalyst? Steward or Doer? How powerful is your style, and how can you make the most of it?

The answers to these and other questions lie in how you score on the Trust Equation*:

TQ = Trust Quotient (trustworthiness)
C = Credibility
R = Reliability
I = Intimacy
S = Self-orientation

You’re about to take a 20 question quiz which will tell you your Trust Quotient and your Trust Style.

Your TQ results are free.

Should you decide to opt for the 20-page Trust Styles analysis, the cost is $29.95. There’s no need to make this decision until after you’ve seen your (free) TQ report. This lengthier report also inlcudes more detailed action steps, full descriptions of each component, and a complete description of the trust quotient instrument itself.

What’s Behind This Test

The Trust Quotient is based on the work of Charles H. Green, noted author and trust expert. Charles and his co-authors David Maister and Robert Galford co-authored the best selling business book The Trusted Advisor in 2000.

Charles then wrote Trust-based Selling, a book rich in how-to’s about the relationship of trust to sales and business development. Charles literally “wrote the book,” in other words, on trust in business.

The Trust Quotient is the result of his continual exploration of the dynamic of trust in business since founding Trusted Advisor Associates in 1997.

For more detail on the Trust Equation, see the article Trust in Business.

* The Trusted Advisor, by David Maister, Charles Green and Robert Galford, Free Press, 2000