Coaching practices for Acts of Kindness with My Team

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I do little nice things for people here and there all week, but it never seems to lift me the way I’d expect
• 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
• The small good things I do feel so tiny against everything that’s wrong that I wonder why I bother
• My kindness all goes to the same handful of people I already take care of, and it’s started to feel like obligation
• Someone on my team is clearly going through something heavy and I’ve just been carrying on talking deliverables like nothing’s wrong

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Acts of kindness
   Do one deliberate kind thing for another person — the giver benefits as much as or more than the receiver.
   Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical
7. Include acts of kindness toward yourself
   The kindness architecture that builds well-being includes self-directed kindness — not just other-directed.
   Acts of Kindness, Made Practical
8. The five-minute favour
   Offer help that costs you five minutes but saves someone else hours.
   Give and Take: The Giver Advantage
9. Deliberate acts of kindness
   Perform several intentional kind acts, ideally clustered, to lift your own well-being.
   Positive Psychology, Made Practical
10. Articulate a compelling vision of why the work matters
    Connect the team’s daily work to a meaningful purpose they can believe in.
    Transformational Leadership, Made Practical

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