Coaching practices for Trust Intuition Performance

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  • I’ve got a strong gut feeling about this, but I’m honestly not sure I can trust it here
  • In practice I just flow, but the second the stakes spike I start second-guessing every move and breaking it down step by step
  • I keep everything at work behind a polished, guarded front
  • With new people I try to fast-forward to being close
  • I say "I’ll send that over" or "I’ll get to it" and then a bunch of those little things quietly slip my mind

Practices that may help

  1. Know when intuition is unreliable
    Expert intuition is valid only when the domain has regular patterns and you’ve had feedback-rich experience in it.
    Recognition-Primed Decision Making
  2. Protect expert intuitive response from rule-reversion under pressure
    Experts perform best when they trust their trained intuition; retreating to explicit rules under pressure is often a regression.
    The Dreyfus Model: Five Stages from Novice to Expert
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. Build reliability through small, visible commitments
    Reliability is built not by big promises but by flawlessly keeping small, everyday ones.
    The Trust Equation, Made Practical
  7. 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
  8. Anchor clutch performance to a practiced pressure routine
    The most reliable way to perform under pressure is to execute the same routine you have practiced hundreds of times.
    The Clutch State: Performing Under Pressure
  9. 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
  10. Audit and reduce your self-orientation
    Self-orientation is the denominator: a small increase in it wipes out gains in all three numerator variables.
    The Trust Equation, Made Practical

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