Coaching practices for I Keep Waiting for My Manager to Notice Me and Hand Me More Trust and It's Not Happening I Want to Stop Waiting and Actually Build the Credibility First by Reliably Delivering on the Things They Most Care About

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• I keep waiting for my manager to notice me and hand me more trust, and it’s not happening
• My boss keeps checking in and hovering over my work, and it makes me feel untrusted
• 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
• I won’t hand anyone real responsibility until they’ve completely proven themselves first
• I only ever seem to show up to this person’s desk when I need something corrected, and I’m realizing I haven’t done a single thing purely for their benefit in months

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Send proactive, brief status updates
   Update your manager on important work before they ask — in the format and frequency they actually want.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
3. 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
4. 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
5. Give something genuine before you ask for something hard
   The trust account needs deposits before you make a withdrawal — invest in the relationship before demanding performance.
   Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor
6. Catch people doing things right
   Most management attention goes to problems — systematically noticing good work is both rarer and more powerful.
   The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work
7. Map your manager’s top three priorities
   Know what your manager is measured on and being pressured about — your work lands differently when it connects to that.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
8. 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
9. Signal credibility without claiming it
   Let your knowledge show through questions and specifics, not through declarations of expertise.
   The Trust Equation, Made Practical
10. Build reliability by making smaller, keepable promises
    Under-promise consistently, then exceed rather than over-promise and fall short.
    The Trust Triangle

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