Coaching practices for How to Help a Colleague After Termination Warning
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- Someone on my team is clearly going through something heavy and I’ve just been carrying on talking deliverables like nothing’s wrong
- The project is wrapping and everyone’s just drifting off to the next thing with no acknowledgment of what we built together
- Someone just came to me with a mistake and I felt my face tighten before I said a word
- Someone gave me real time and good advice, and weeks go by where I never circle back to tell them I actually used it
- Things with my manager have gone cold and transactional, and we’re both just avoiding it and quietly resenting each other
Practices that may help
- 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 - Adjourning: close the team with intention
How a team ends shapes how each member begins the next one.
Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development - Respond non-punitively to mistakes
When someone brings you a problem or mistake, make your first move curiosity, not blame.
Psychological Safety in Teams - Send a meaningful thank-you note
Write a follow-up that references something specific and reports back on how you used their advice.
Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network - Repair a damaged leader-follower relationship deliberately
Take active steps to reset a deteriorated relationship, rather than allowing avoidance to compound the damage.
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical - Follow through on stated consequences — or don’t state them
Consequences you don’t enforce teach that commitments are optional.
Crucial Accountability: Holding People to Commitments That Matter - Repair a poor response
When you respond badly to good news, circle back and give the engaged response you missed.
Active-Constructive Responding, Made Practical - Acknowledge what you heard before advancing to advice
A solution offered before the speaker feels heard is usually rejected, even when it is correct.
The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm - Signal clearly when you’re done with a request before moving on
Close collaborative loops explicitly — send a brief "done" signal so the other person’s attention residue also closes.
Attention Residue: Why Switching Tasks Costs More Than You Think - Disagree with your manager constructively
State your disagreement clearly, give your reasoning, and then commit to the decision — without sacrificing either honesty or loyalty.
Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
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Take active steps to reset a deteriorated relationship, rather than allowing avoidance to compound the damage.
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Ask about the pressures and constraints your manager faces — then factor them into your expectations and requests.
Understand the constraints your manager operates under
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Give team members specific language for raising concerns, not just permission to raise them.
Teach speak-up skills, not just encourage speaking up
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State your disagreement clearly, give your reasoning, and then commit to the decision — without sacrificing either honesty or loyalty.
Disagree with your manager constructively
- Best Way To Handle Toxic Coworkers
Actively surface and protect the dissenting or marginal voices the system wants to silence.
Give voice to those with uncomfortable perspectives
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