Coaching practices for Manager Showing Up for People

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• Someone on my team is clearly going through something heavy and I’ve just been carrying on talking deliverables like nothing’s wrong
• My whole attention as a manager is tuned to what’s broken
• I keep dropping problems on my boss’s desk and waiting for them to tell me what to do, and I can feel it reads as me not owning my work
• I walk in with my list of things to check on and immediately steer the whole hour into my project review
• My people route every little decision up to me, even ones squarely in their own authority

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Let the report own the agenda
   It’s their meeting — they bring what matters to them, and you adapt to it.
   Effective One-on-Ones, Made Practical
5. Break the advice-dependency loop
   When people come to you for every decision, it signals advice-giving is making them less capable, not more.
   The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm
6. Make one-on-ones genuinely theirs, not yours
   One-on-ones that serve the manager’s agenda demonstrate the opposite of caring personally.
   Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor
7. Ask "How can I help?" instead of assuming
   Telling people how you’ll help before finding out what kind of help they want is one of the most common management errors.
   The Coaching Habit: Seven Questions to Be More Coach-Like
8. Know where care ends and overreach begins
   Caring personally means being available, not being a therapist — know the limit of your role.
   Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor
9. Coach the person, not just the problem
   The most important thing a manager can work on is the person’s capacity to handle future problems, not just today’s.
   The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm
10. Offer office hours to concentrate collaboration
    Designate one or two open windows per day when collaborators can reach you freely, then protect everything else.
    Maker vs Manager Schedule

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