Coaching practices for Blanchard Johnson Management

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• I hand work off and somehow it keeps boomeranging back onto my plate
• My whole attention as a manager is tuned to what’s broken
• I give my team a sharp, accurate read on what’s going wrong and exactly how to fix it, and they nod and walk away
• I’ve basically written my team off as weak
• When I push my team on the hard stuff they either shut down and start blaming each other or just nod and carry on as before

Practices that may help

1. The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work
   Blanchard and Johnson’s One Minute Manager distills management to three practices: one-minute goals (clear, written, short), one-minute praisings (specific, immediate, genuine), and one-minute reprimands (immediate, behavior-specific, followed by reaffirmation). The framework is a 1982 practitioner classic, not a clinical protocol, but the mechanisms — specificity in feedback, timeliness, and the separation of behavior from character — are supported by decades of subsequent research in reinforcement and feedback theory.
2. Resist reverse delegation (the "monkey back" problem)
   When a report brings you their monkey, don’t take it — send it back with the next step owned.
   Delegation Levels, Made Practical
3. Catch people doing things right
   Most management attention goes to problems — systematically noticing good work is both rarer and more powerful.
   The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work
4. Raise awareness and build responsibility simultaneously
   Help the person see their situation more clearly while also connecting them to their ownership of it.
   The GROW Model: Coaching Conversations That Actually Move People
5. There are no bad teams, only bad leaders
   The same people perform differently under different leadership — so start with the leadership.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
6. Regulate the level of distress in the system
   Keep productive pressure high enough to motivate change but low enough to prevent shutdown.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
7. Deliberately expand your inner circle
   Move team members from low-LMX to high-LMX through intentional relationship investment.
   Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical
8. Build a culture of discipline, not a disciplinarian culture
   Hire self-disciplined people, then give them freedom within a clear framework.
   Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders
9. Create thinking space rather than filling every meeting with content
   The most valuable thing a coaching manager provides is protected time and space for reflection — which most teams never get.
   The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm
10. Identify and track your critical numbers
    Find the two or three metrics that, if managed well, predict overall health — and make them visible to everyone.
    The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus

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