Coaching practices for Okrs for People Not Just Companies as a Caregiver
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- I care about my people so much that I’ve started absorbing their personal crises and trying to fix their lives, and I can’t tell anymore where being a supportive manager stops and me overstepping into someone I shouldn’t be begins.
- I realize I know exactly what each person on my team is working on this week but almost nothing about where they’re actually trying to get to in their life
- Someone on my team is clearly going through something heavy and I’ve just been carrying on talking deliverables like nothing’s wrong
- My one-on-ones have quietly turned into me running down my own list of updates and asks, and the person barely gets to say what’s actually on their mind
- My care only reaches the handful of people closest to me and stops cold at strangers, and I want to slowly stretch that circle outward
Practices that may help
- OKRs for People, Not Just Companies
OKRs pair an Objective — a qualitative, ambitious statement of what you want — with a few measurable Key Results that prove you got there. The framework is best known from Intel and Google as an organizational tool, but its core moves (ambitious goals, hard metrics, a regular review cadence) rest on goal-setting principles that have genuine research support. - 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 - Learn what each person actually wants from their career and life
Care personally means knowing the goal behind the job — not just what they’re working on, but why.
Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor - 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 - Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor
Kim Scott’s "care personally" is the axis of radical candor that separates candor that helps from candor that harms: it means genuinely giving a damn about the person — their growth, goals, and life outside work — not just their output. Without it, even honest feedback lands as attack. The framework is practitioner-derived from Scott’s time at Google and Apple, grounded in well-established research on trust and feedback receptivity. - 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 - Widening the circle of care
Extend the well-wishes outward in stages: loved one, neutral person, difficult person, all beings.
Loving-Kindness (Metta) Meditation - Find a community that recognises your specific loss
Seek out people who have experienced the same type of loss — online or in person.
Disenfranchised Grief, Made Practical - Expand your role through extra-role behavior
Voluntarily take on work beyond your formal responsibilities to signal readiness for a higher-trust relationship.
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical - Deliberately take time off from grief
Give yourself genuine permission to engage with ordinary life — this is restoration orientation, not avoidance.
The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Caring Personally Challenging Directly
Caring personally means being available, not being a therapist — know the limit of your role.
Know where care ends and overreach begins
- Caring Personally The Foundation Of Radical Candor As A Caregiver
Kim Scott’s "care personally" is the axis of radical candor that separates candor that helps from candor that harms: it means genuinely giving a damn about the person — their growth, goals, and life outside work — not just their output. Without it, even honest feedback lands as attack. The framework is practitioner-derived from Scott’s time at Google and Apple, grounded in well-established research on trust and feedback receptivity.
- How To Care Personally As A Manager
Caring personally means being available, not being a therapist — know the limit of your role.
- Kim Scott Care Personally
Kim Scott’s "care personally" is the axis of radical candor that separates candor that helps from candor that harms: it means genuinely giving a damn about the person — their growth, goals, and life outside work — not just their output. Without it, even honest feedback lands as attack. The framework is practitioner-derived from Scott’s time at Google and Apple, grounded in well-established research on trust and feedback receptivity.
- Manager Boundaries Caring
Caring personally means being available, not being a therapist — know the limit of your role.
- Manager Care Personally
Care personally means knowing the goal behind the job — not just what they’re working on, but why.
Learn what each person actually wants from their career and life
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