Sometimes demonstrating these things can lead to you getting permission to go out on your own or to be trusted to get on with something alone.
Most of us, I suspect, just want to be trusted to get on with other people and not be instructed by activists about the dangers of racism.
The same exacting logic, she says, applies to teachers, too: "You feel you're being judged all the time, not trusted to get on with the job you've been trained to do".
They include numbers on satisfaction with Westminster's museums and theatres, even though none of them is owned or run by the council.In theory, well-behaved councils are subject to less interference and trusted to get on with their jobs.
Teachers were trusted to get on with the job.
"It's a big company, Tesco, and also very empowered - people were given responsibility and trusted to get on with their job, so there was a big team of experienced leaders.
"In a way," says Rachel Gough, principal bassoonist, "the most frightening thing of all is to be trusted to get it right on the night.
Set the eagle free Angela's new partner ReprintsIn Mr Ayrault, the 62-year-old leader of the Socialist parliamentary group and mayor of Nantes, Mr Hollande has a loyal colleague whom he trusts to get on with the job.
If I could be totally trusted on sex, then I got a lot of extra privileges.
"The idea was to prove to Republicans that he could be trusted on enforcement, so that he could get a path to citizenship in return".
