Coaching practices for How to Be More Noticeable at Work

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• My whole attention as a manager is tuned to what’s broken
• When I want people to take me seriously I tend to lead with my résumé and how much I know, and I can feel it land as bragging
• I could list ten things that went wrong at work today without blinking but I’d struggle to name one that went right
• I keep delivering work I’m proud of and it somehow lands flat with my boss, and I’m realizing I have no real idea what they’re actually being judged on or pressured about
• 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

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Signal credibility without claiming it
   Let your knowledge show through questions and specifics, not through declarations of expertise.
   The Trust Equation, Made Practical
3. 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
4. Map your manager’s top three priorities
   Know what your manager is measured on and being pressured about — your work lands differently when it connects to that.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
5. Give recognition generously and specifically
   Call out others’ contributions publicly, specifically, and without claiming credit for yourself.
   Give and Take: The Giver Advantage
6. 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
7. Build a credibility foundation before showing vulnerability
   The pratfall effect only works if people already perceive you as competent — so earn that first.
   The Pratfall Effect, Made Practical
8. Shift attention outward during social situations
   Direct your focus to what the other person is saying and feeling, not to how you appear.
   The Spotlight Effect: Why You Think Everyone Is Watching
9. Convey power
   Signal that you have the ability to affect the world — competence, status, or capability.
   The Charisma Myth, Made Practical
10. Design an environmental initiation cue
    Create a specific sensory cue that reliably signals "work starts now."
    Task Initiation: Overcoming the Start Problem

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