Coaching practices for Catch People Doing Things Right

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• When someone does something genuinely great I just toss off a "nice work" and move on, and it barely registers
• I catch myself scanning everyone around me for what’s wrong with them, and I want to flip that lens
• When something goes well I tend to quietly absorb the credit or just say "great team effort," and I never actually name who did what
• I catch every single thing my partner forgets or does wrong, but the dozen kind, ordinary things they do for me each day just sail right past me unnoticed
• Something genuinely good happened today and I noticed I just kept it to myself and moved on

Practices that may help

1. Use SBI for positive feedback, not just correction
   Name the situation, behavior, and impact when someone does something right.
   The SBI Feedback Model, Made Practical
2. Spot and name character strengths in others
   Notice and explicitly name the character strengths you observe in people around you.
   VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
3. Give recognition generously and specifically
   Call out others’ contributions publicly, specifically, and without claiming credit for yourself.
   Give and Take: The Giver Advantage
4. Actively notice positive partner behavior
   Scan for what your partner does right, not just what they don’t do.
   Positive Sentiment Override: How to Build the Lens That Protects Relationships
5. 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
6. One-minute praisings: specific, immediate, genuine
   Praise that names the exact behavior immediately after it occurs reinforces that behavior far more effectively than delayed or generic recognition.
   The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work
7. Give recognition that names the person’s specific effort, not just the outcome
   Generic praise signals you were not paying attention; specific recognition proves you were.
   Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor
8. 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
9. Recognize what is not happening with proactive recognition
   Catch the child not misbehaving and name the success explicitly.
   The Nurtured Heart Approach (Howard Glasser)
10. Enlist a habit support partner for awareness and reinforcement
    A support partner who prompts and reinforces the competing response accelerates habit reduction.
    Habit Reversal Training, Made Practical

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