Coaching practices for Acts of Kindness in a New Job

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• My kindness all goes to the same handful of people I already take care of, and it’s started to feel like obligation
• I want to be the kind of person who helps people out, but I keep waiting for some big perfect way to do it and end up doing nothing
• In the moment that I help someone there’s a little glow, but I rush straight on to the next thing and by evening it’s gone
• I do little nice things for people here and there all week, but it never seems to lift me the way I’d expect
• The small good things I do feel so tiny against everything that’s wrong that I wonder why I bother

Practices that may help

1. Extend kindness toward strangers, not just your inner circle
   Acts of kindness toward strangers often produce stronger well-being benefits than acts toward people you already help routinely.
   Acts of Kindness, Made Practical
2. The five-minute favour
   Offer help that costs you five minutes but saves someone else hours.
   Give and Take: The Giver Advantage
3. Reflect briefly on kind acts after doing them
   Spend two to three minutes at day’s end recalling your kindness acts — the consolidation is part of why the practice works.
   Acts of Kindness, Made Practical
4. Cluster your acts of kindness into one day
   Do five acts of kindness in a single day rather than spreading them thinly across a week.
   Acts of Kindness, Made Practical
5. Notice the ripple — secondary effects beyond the immediate act
   Watch for how a single act of kindness can propagate through a social network, which amplifies the meaning of the original act.
   Acts of Kindness, Made Practical
6. Vary the acts to prevent hedonic adaptation
   Change the type and target of your kindness acts regularly — repetition dulls the emotional payoff.
   Acts of Kindness, Made Practical
7. Practice micro gratitude visits for smaller acknowledgments
   For everyday appreciation, develop a habit of specific, direct acknowledgment in the moment.
   The Gratitude Visit: Telling Someone They Mattered
8. Show up for the person, not just the deliverable
   Acknowledge what is happening in someone’s life when it is clearly affecting them — before addressing the work.
   Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor
9. Use genius mapping in onboarding
   Surface a new hire’s geniuses early so you design their role around energy, not just skills.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
10. On-the-spot metta in real interactions
    Silently offer a quick well-wish to people you encounter during the day.
    Loving-Kindness (Metta) Meditation

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