Coaching practices for How to Assist My Manager with Post Covid Recovery Symptoms When Meeting with Vendors

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• When I finish a hard stretch of work I "take a break" by scrolling or clearing email, and then I sit down for the next thing already fried
• Someone on my team is clearly going through something heavy and I’ve just been carrying on talking deliverables like nothing’s wrong
• I only ever rest once I’ve already crashed
• The hard meeting ended an hour ago but my body is still buzzing from it, like the adrenaline never got the memo that it’s over
• I push straight through the whole day without a single real break, telling myself rest is for later

Practices that may help

1. Protect genuine recovery time between focus windows
   Treat recovery — undemanding activity after focused work — as part of the attention-management protocol, not as laziness.
   Attention Management, Made Practical
2. 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
3. Schedule recovery proactively, not reactively
   Build recovery into the calendar before load accumulates, not as an emergency response after breakdown.
   Allostatic Load, Made Practical
4. Deliberate orienting after a stressful event to complete the cycle
   After a difficult experience, do a slow orienting exercise to help your nervous system register that it is now over.
   The Orienting Response, Made Practical
5. Schedule deliberate recovery intervals throughout the day
   Treat recovery periods not as laziness but as physiological necessity — the nervous system rebuilds resilience during recovery, not during effort.
   The Resilience Bank Account, Made Practical
6. Send proactive, brief status updates
   Update your manager on important work before they ask — in the format and frequency they actually want.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
7. Deload proactively on a schedule — not reactively after injury or burnout
   Scheduling deloads every 4–6 weeks prevents the fatigue accumulation that forces an unplanned break — which is always longer.
   Deload Week
8. Bring a proposed solution when you bring a problem
   Describe the problem and your recommended path before asking for a decision.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
9. Use heart rate variability to guide training load decisions
   Monitor HRV to get an objective daily signal of recovery status before committing to training intensity.
   Deliberate Recovery: Making Rest a Performance Practice
10. Communicate your schedule mode to collaborators
    Tell your team when you are in maker mode and what that means for response times.
    Maker vs Manager Schedule

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