Alan Pardew says he has no plans to speak to Newcastle owner Mike Ashley before the Magpies face Swansea on Saturday.
Pardew, 53, has come under criticism from Newcastle supporters this season as the club sit 19th in the Premier League table after six games, with Ashley joking that defeat at Stoke on Monday would cost the manager his job.
The owner elected to keep faith in Pardew despite a 1-0 defeat at the Britannia leaving the club stuck on three points, but the coach believes his "young side" can arrest their decline.
"I spoke to the chief executive," he told a pregame news conference. "We discussed ways of trying to help the team. Ways of trying to find a solution to try and get this team playing to its capacity.
"There's really not much else to say today really. We are very focused on the game on Saturday and we want to win."
Asked whether he would speak with Ashley before Saturday's game, Pardew replied: "No, no. We've focused very much this week on the mental side of the game and setbacks.
"The goal we conceded against Stoke perhaps shouldn't have been conceded but it was. And then we've focused on responses on the pitch. You respond to different criteria when you are under the pressure we are under. The media spotlight for example... you won't leave us alone.
"This is a team that is quite young. It hasn't got the experience, certainly not the experience of the side that got relegated three or four years ago before my time. So we need to not ignore that and learn from those lessons.
"I believe in these players. I believe in this team and the staff I have around me to turn it around. The most important thing is we need to get a win."
Ashley, meanwhile, has increased his stake in Rangers to almost nine percent, the Glasgow club have confirmed.
Ashley's MASH Holdings Ltd has been named as the purchaser of more than four million shares, which were sold by Hargreave Hale earlier this week.
Several updates to the London Stock Exchange show that Ashley transferred his existing shareholding to MASH Holdings, which he owns in its entirety, to give him a total stake of 8.92 percent.