What are the critical behaviours that you use to build trust and ethics as a change maker?

For me it's "Walk the walk". If you can't or don't adapt, don't expect others.

Amany,

I think change start from the leader it might not be the PM.

Some changes I see coming is transparency and team performance evaluation, not individual.

According to me no one knows everything and we all have our own limitations. So, we need to build a team that complements each other in knowledge, skills, and capabilities. After all transparency builds trust.

Just to comment, change maker as a differentiated role does not exit as a line of thinking if you take the right way to work in the actual world. Organizations must be considered from the point of view of systemic theory so each thing you introduce into an organization will change the organization as a whole then each person is a change maker. With these on hand the key is working on organizational culture as a key driver but without forget that the whole enterprise architecture must be taken into account. Change must be considered as a component inside transformation initiatives then as project manger the thing you have to do is to create a project related to that.

Say what you will do, and do what you say you would! That's how I build trust. There are times in my career that I have seen employees who been wronged by a previous supervisor. I became the new supervisor and they still had that baggage of mistrust. One of them asked me "why should I trust you since we have been lied to in the past". I told her that there was nothing that I could SAY to change that notion. The proof was in performance. Years later, she still thinks of me as her mentor because of that trustbuilding experience and how I handled that situation.