Coaching practices for Demonstrate Care at Work
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Someone on my team is clearly going through something heavy and I’ve just been carrying on talking deliverables like nothing’s wrong
- I realize I know exactly what each person on my team is working on this week but almost nothing about where they’re actually trying to get to in their life
- I do genuinely have their back, but I assume they just know it, so I never actually show it
- I care about my people so much that I’ve started absorbing their personal crises and trying to fix their lives, and I can’t tell anymore where being a supportive manager stops and me overstepping into someone I shouldn’t be begins.
- I tossed off a "great work" to someone and watched it land flat, because we both knew I hadn’t really looked at what they did
Practices that may help
- 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 - Learn what each person actually wants from their career and life
Care personally means knowing the goal behind the job — not just what they’re working on, but why.
Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor - Demonstrate care through visible acts in the other person’s interest
Show that your interests and theirs are genuinely aligned — not only when it’s convenient.
The Trust Triangle - Know where care ends and overreach begins
Caring personally means being available, not being a therapist — know the limit of your role.
Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor - 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 - Care personally without lowering the bar
Ruinous empathy masquerades as caring — real care means holding the standard because you want them to succeed.
Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor - Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor
Kim Scott’s "care personally" is the axis of radical candor that separates candor that helps from candor that harms: it means genuinely giving a damn about the person — their growth, goals, and life outside work — not just their output. Without it, even honest feedback lands as attack. The framework is practitioner-derived from Scott’s time at Google and Apple, grounded in well-established research on trust and feedback receptivity. - Give something genuine before you ask for something hard
The trust account needs deposits before you make a withdrawal — invest in the relationship before demanding performance.
Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor - Apply three good things to work contexts specifically
Use the exercise to rewire what you notice about your work day — contribution, competence, and collaboration.
Three Good Things: The Evidence-Based Gratitude Practice - 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
Related concerns
- Kim Scott Care Personally
Kim Scott’s "care personally" is the axis of radical candor that separates candor that helps from candor that harms: it means genuinely giving a damn about the person — their growth, goals, and life outside work — not just their output. Without it, even honest feedback lands as attack. The framework is practitioner-derived from Scott’s time at Google and Apple, grounded in well-established research on trust and feedback receptivity.
- Manager Care Personally
Care personally means knowing the goal behind the job — not just what they’re working on, but why.
Learn what each person actually wants from their career and life
- What Does Care Personally Mean Radical Candor
Kim Scott’s "care personally" is the axis of radical candor that separates candor that helps from candor that harms: it means genuinely giving a damn about the person — their growth, goals, and life outside work — not just their output. Without it, even honest feedback lands as attack. The framework is practitioner-derived from Scott’s time at Google and Apple, grounded in well-established research on trust and feedback receptivity.
- Care Personally Radical Candor
Kim Scott’s "care personally" is the axis of radical candor that separates candor that helps from candor that harms: it means genuinely giving a damn about the person — their growth, goals, and life outside work — not just their output. Without it, even honest feedback lands as attack. The framework is practitioner-derived from Scott’s time at Google and Apple, grounded in well-established research on trust and feedback receptivity.
- Caring Candour Practice
Kim Scott’s "care personally" is the axis of radical candor that separates candor that helps from candor that harms: it means genuinely giving a damn about the person — their growth, goals, and life outside work — not just their output. Without it, even honest feedback lands as attack. The framework is practitioner-derived from Scott’s time at Google and Apple, grounded in well-established research on trust and feedback receptivity.
- Caring Personally Challenging Directly
Caring personally means being available, not being a therapist — know the limit of your role.
Know where care ends and overreach begins
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