Coaching practices for First 90 Days Strengths

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For First 90 Days Strengths, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

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

• I’ve got a new hire starting and the lazy move is to just hand them whatever’s piled up in the backlog
• I already know what I’m good at, but I only ever use those strengths in the same few familiar places
• Where I come alive is in the human glue
• I spend so much energy trying to fix my weak spots that my days feel like a grind against my own grain
• I start strong and then by midweek the commitment quietly fades and I drift, and I want some regular built-in moment

Practices that may help

1. Use genius mapping in onboarding
   Surface a new hire’s geniuses early so you design their role around energy, not just skills.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
2. 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
3. Lead from the relationship building domain — hold the team together
   People strong in relationship building are the glue that holds a team’s cohesion under pressure.
   Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
4. Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
   Strengths-based leadership, developed by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie building on Gallup’s decades of manager research, holds that the most effective leaders invest in their own strengths and build teams whose combined strengths cover all four leadership domains — executing, influencing, relationship building, and strategic thinking. Gallup’s correlational research consistently finds that strength-focused teams report higher engagement and performance, though the causal direction is not fully established.
5. Coaching — high direction and high support for the disillusioned learner
   When early enthusiasm dips but skill is still forming, combine clear guidance with active encouragement.
   Situational Leadership, Made Practical
6. Use your signature strengths in a new way
   Identify your top character strengths and deploy one of them differently each day.
   Positive Psychology, Made Practical
7. Use recurring landmarks as checkpoints
   Treat each Monday or first-of-month as a built-in moment to re-up the commitment.
   The Fresh Start Effect
8. Beware the false start: a clean slate without a system changes nothing
   Fresh start framing provides motivation; without system changes, the same conditions produce the same results.
   Fresh Start Framing: Engineering Your Own Clean Slate
9. Use personal landmarks, not just calendar ones
   A personal milestone — completing a project, a therapy session, a hard conversation — is a valid fresh start trigger.
   Fresh Start Framing: Engineering Your Own Clean Slate
10. 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

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