Clay LinkousCo-founder, Linkous Solutions · International Speaker, Executive Coach, and Facilitator / Champion of Physicians, Leadership, the Human Experience, SDOH, Vulnerable Populations, & Neurodiversity.

Connect Before You Coach: Build Trust for Better Performance #shorts

17 Dec 2025 · 0 min

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Build trust with your team before you coach them. Regular touchpoints like one-on-ones, huddles, and rounding create an emotional bank account that makes coaching conversations easier and more effective.

This is why the rounding, the one-on-ones, the staff meetings, the huddles are so important also, because, you know, somebody told me once that you have to connect before you can coach, right? So if you're not connecting with your people, this conversation is gonna be much harder. But if you're connected with them and you have some sort of emotional bank account, there's a much greater likelihood that they're going to respond in a most productive way and choose to improve their performance.