Coaching practices for Amplify Your Best Work
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I hoard everything until it’s finished and perfect, so I work in total isolation and only ever show the polished result
- When something good happens I downplay it so I don’t seem like I’m bragging
- I know there are a couple of things I’m genuinely good at, but I use them just to get by
- I know exactly which handful of things actually move the needle for me
- My days feel small and self-enclosed, all about me and my own little concerns, and the times I’ve felt most lifted out of myself were when I was caught up in something bigger than me
Practices that may help
- Share the process, not just the result
Show the work in progress to attract collaborators, feedback, and serendipity.
Steal Like an Artist, in Practice - Sharing good news (capitalizing)
Tell someone about a good thing — and savor it together — to amplify it.
Savoring: Getting More From the Good - Bridge from signature strengths to purpose
Identify the top two or three things you do better than most people and trace how they can serve something larger.
The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self - Multiply time and resource investment in the vital few
Once you know your high-leverage 20%, invest more time and energy there — not less.
The Pareto Principle: 80/20 for Personal Productivity - Engage a self-transcendent purpose
Connect your daily effort to something genuinely beyond yourself — a cause, a person, or a craft.
Peak Experiences and Self-Actualization - Apply 80/20 to relationships and energy sources
Identify which relationships energize and catalyze your best work, and invest in them disproportionately.
The Pareto Principle: 80/20 for Personal Productivity - Collect your influences deliberately
Curate the artists, ideas, and work you love — your taste is the raw material you will recombine.
Steal Like an Artist, in Practice - Use a signature strength in a new way each day for one week
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them
Liz Wiseman’s research found that the best leaders — Multipliers — extract far more capability from their people than average leaders do, not by being smarter, but by creating conditions where others’ intelligence can fully operate. Diminishers, the opposite, may be brilliant and well-intentioned but systematically suppress the thinking around them. The research is interview-based across multiple organizations — observational, not experimental — but the mechanisms align with well-established research on autonomy, self-efficacy, and psychological safety. - Share one good thing with another person
Tell one person about a good thing that happened — sharing amplifies the positive experience and builds connection.
Three Good Things: The Evidence-Based Gratitude Practice
Related concerns
- Amplifying What Works
The most efficient expansion is not converting skeptics — it is finding people who already share your belief.
Communicate your Why to those who already believe it
- Good To Great Personal Application
Care more about the organization’s success than your personal legacy.
Channel ambition to the institution, not yourself
- How To Monetize Your Best Skills
Name the specific mechanism by which your work creates value that the market will pay for — not just a field, but a mechanism.
Identify what drives your economic engine specifically
- Leverage Your Best Activities
Once you know your high-leverage 20%, invest more time and energy there — not less.
Multiply time and resource investment in the vital few
- Pareto Amplification
Once you know your high-leverage 20%, invest more time and energy there — not less.
- 80 20 Analysis Personal
The Pareto Principle observes that roughly 80% of outputs tend to come from 20% of inputs — a power-law pattern documented across many domains. Richard Koch’s "The 80/20 Individual" applies this to personal effort: identify and multiply your highest-leverage 20%, then radically reduce the rest. The distribution is real; the exact 80/20 split is a rough heuristic, not a precise law.
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