Coaching practices for How to Credit Others

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• 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
• When the team debriefs and credit gets handed around, I instantly downplay my part
• Something good happens and my first move is to hand the credit away
• When something goes wrong my first move is to find who dropped the ball, and when it goes well I quietly feel it was mostly me
• I always lead with the ask and then wonder why people put up walls

Practices that may help

1. Give recognition generously and specifically
   Call out others’ contributions publicly, specifically, and without claiming credit for yourself.
   Give and Take: The Giver Advantage
2. Practice owning your contribution in group settings
   In team debrief or credit-distribution conversations, name your specific contribution before someone else summarizes it away.
   Impostor Phenomenon, Made Practical
3. Reattribute good events to yourself
   When something goes well, practice crediting your own stable qualities, not just luck.
   Optimism Training: Building Realistic, Flexible Optimism
4. Look out the window for credit, in the mirror for blame
   When things go well, credit others; when things go wrong, look at yourself first.
   Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders
5. Reciprocity
   Give something first — value, help, a concession — and people feel pulled to give back.
   Cialdini’s Principles of Influence
6. Train optimistic causal attribution deliberately
   Practice attributing good events to stable, internal causes — not to luck or one-off circumstances.
   Three Good Things: The Evidence-Based Gratitude Practice
7. Correct blaming by adding accountability for self
   When blaming, add an honest account of your own contribution to the problem.
   The Satir Model
8. Apply reciprocity in feedback conversations
   Offer a genuine concession or acknowledgment of your own role before asking someone to change.
   The Rule of Reciprocity, Made Practical
9. Practice competence re-attribution
   After each success, write explicitly which of your skills, decisions, or efforts contributed — before the luck explanation settles in.
   Impostor Phenomenon, Made Practical
10. Trace the source of each blessing
    For each blessing, name the specific person, circumstance, or choice that produced it.
    Counting Blessings: The Psychology of Grateful Reflection

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