Coaching practices for Okrs for People Not Just Companies as a Parent

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  • 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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)
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. 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)
  10. 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

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