Coaching practices for Trust Cycle Leadership

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• There are people on my team I’ve quietly written off
• I keep waiting for my manager to notice me and hand me more trust, and it’s not happening
• My boss took a real chance on me and advocated for me, and I just took it and moved on without ever closing the loop
• I’ve been pouring energy into vision and inspiration and it’s landing as hollow
• I won’t hand anyone real responsibility until they’ve completely proven themselves first

Practices that may help

1. Deliberately expand your inner circle
   Move team members from low-LMX to high-LMX through intentional relationship investment.
   Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical
2. The Trust Equation, Made Practical
   The Trust Equation (Maister, Green, and Galford) holds that trustworthiness = (credibility + reliability + intimacy) ÷ self-orientation. The model is a practitioner framework rather than a rigorously tested theory, but it usefully names the levers — especially self-orientation, which is the single biggest trust-killer most leaders overlook.
3. Invest in the relationship before you need it
   Build relational credit through reliability and initiative, not charm or performance alone.
   Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical
4. Reciprocate when your leader invests in you
   When a leader gives you trust, opportunity, or advocacy, close the loop with visible follow-through.
   Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical
5. Establish transactional reliability before adding transformational layers
   Clear expectations, fair consequences, and reliable follow-through must come before vision and inspiration.
   Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
6. Extend trust deliberately to invite it
   Trust others first, in bounded ways, before they have earned every dimension — it is how trust is built.
   The Trust Triangle
7. Distribute leadership rather than centralizing it
   Develop leadership capacity throughout the team, not just in the designated leader.
   Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
8. Earn the right to deepen the relationship in stages
   Trust compounds over time — start with technical credibility and expand into intimacy as it is earned.
   The Trust Equation, Made Practical
9. Lower your guard to raise the intimacy score
   Sharing something real about yourself makes others feel safer sharing something real with you.
   The Trust Equation, Made Practical
10. Build vulnerability-based trust
    Teams that can’t admit weakness, mistakes, or ignorance to each other cannot genuinely collaborate.
    The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical

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