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The Four Readings Self-Check

Twelve statements. Four minutes. How well does your team read the room before it writes a word?

A companion to The Four Readings and Trust Literacy. This is a practice check, not the Trust Audit.

Answer about how your team actually works today, not how you would like it to work. Choose Rarely, Sometimes or Consistently for each statement. Your answers stay in this page. Nothing is sent or saved.

01 Institutional history

The record the community would recite, not the one in the annual report.

We keep a timeline of commitments made against commitments kept.

When we miss a commitment, we say so publicly before someone else does.

We have asked people outside the organization what they remember about our record.

02 Opposition characterization

Is the opposition about the issue, or about the institution?

We can tell whether opposition is about a specific proposal or about us.

We listen to opposition voices directly, not only through media coverage.

We choose our approach differently when distrust is aimed at the institution itself.

03 Defensive prior strength

How strongly has the community come to expect harm from the institution?

We ask what people expect from us, not only what they think of our proposal.

We can describe how strong the expectation of harm is in each part of our audience.

We adjust how much weight a message carries when those expectations are strong.

04 Information environment

What the message becomes between sending and receiving.

We know where our audiences actually get their information locally.

We track what is circulating about us, including misinformation, before we launch.

We plan for how a message will be reshaped by platforms and by echo chambers.

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