Coaching practices for How to Be More Visible at Work Hbr

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• I could list ten things that went wrong at work today without blinking but I’d struggle to name one that went right
• My work just feels like reports going into a void
• In the moment someone asks me to take something on, my priorities are nowhere in sight
• 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

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Contribution mapping
   Trace the visible chain from your daily work to a person or outcome that benefits.
   Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day
3. Keep your Focus List physically visible
   Post your top 5 somewhere unavoidable so every new request gets evaluated against them.
   Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy
4. 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
5. Signal credibility without claiming it
   Let your knowledge show through questions and specifics, not through declarations of expertise.
   The Trust Equation, Made Practical
6. 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
7. Communicate your theme-day structure to collaborators
   Let colleagues know which days are off-limits for meetings so the structure is sustainable, not secret.
   Theme Days, Made Practical
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. Give recognition generously and specifically
   Call out others’ contributions publicly, specifically, and without claiming credit for yourself.
   Give and Take: The Giver Advantage
10. 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

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