Marc Haine discusses building trust from an Indigenous perspective, emphasizing community, collective roles, and learning from elders. He explains how cohesiveness enabled Indigenous communities to survive for thousands of years and what that teaches about workplace culture.
Working together, how, as we mentioned earlier, how are we ensuring that we're building and maintaining trust and setting that really strong foundation? So to bring in the Indigenous perspective, community was number one. That was how you survived, was your role in— was being a part of a community. And you had a role from childhood that included responsibilities. And so you were learning from the aunties and the uncles, and you were— but you were working and you were participating, and everybody had roles and responsibilities. And it was that cohesiveness and collectiveness that really helped survive— helped communities survive millennia in North America, since time immemorial is what is usually said. Mm-hmm.
