Coaching practices for Okrs for People Not Just Companies as a Parent
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I lay down a rule and my kids ignore it because it’s "my" rule they had no say in
- I’ve defined being a good parent (or partner, or manager) by whether the other person turns out happy and successful
- 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
- This rift has poisoned the whole family and nobody can fix it one-on-one anymore
- Someone on my team is clearly going through something heavy and I’ve just been carrying on talking deliverables like nothing’s wrong
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. - Use family meetings to solve problems together
When children help solve the problem, they own the solution — and solutions they own, they actually follow.
Positive Discipline (Jane Nelsen) - Accept your role (not its outcomes) as your commitment
Commit to the role — parent, manager, friend, citizen — as a practice, with its obligations, not as a guarantee of outcomes.
The Stoic Reserve Clause - 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 - Facilitated reconciliation circle
Bring all affected parties together with a neutral guide to name harm, ask forgiveness, and restore relationship.
Ho'oponopono: Hawaiian Forgiveness and Reconciliation - 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 - Share the review with someone who will ask honest questions
A review held privately is easier to fudge; one shared with an honest questioner is harder to rationalize.
The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method) - Keep OKRs separate from your task list
OKRs say where you are going; your to-do list says what you do today — do not merge them.
OKRs for People, Not Just Companies
Related concerns
- Okrs For People Not Just Companies As A Caregiver
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.
- 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.
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