Coaching practices for One Minute Manager Summary

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

  • My whole attention as a manager is tuned to what’s broken
  • My team and I keep ending up at cross purposes
  • I walk in with my list of things to check on and immediately steer the whole hour into my project review
  • My check-ins with people are rare and long, and by the time we sit down so much has piled up that the meeting feels heavy and high-stakes
  • My team lives in pure execution mode, head down, one fire after another, and so do our meetings

Practices that may help

  1. The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work
    Blanchard and Johnson’s One Minute Manager distills management to three practices: one-minute goals (clear, written, short), one-minute praisings (specific, immediate, genuine), and one-minute reprimands (immediate, behavior-specific, followed by reaffirmation). The framework is a 1982 practitioner classic, not a clinical protocol, but the mechanisms — specificity in feedback, timeliness, and the separation of behavior from character — are supported by decades of subsequent research in reinforcement and feedback theory.
  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. One-minute goals: write them short enough to re-read in a minute
    A goal that cannot be stated on a single page is too vague to be evaluated or acted on.
    The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work
  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. Use brief, frequent touch-points rather than long, rare meetings
    Frequent short feedback loops beat rare long reviews because the gap between behavior and feedback is what determines whether feedback changes anything.
    The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work
  6. Create thinking space rather than filling every meeting with content
    The most valuable thing a coaching manager provides is protected time and space for reflection — which most teams never get.
    The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm
  7. One-minute praisings: specific, immediate, genuine
    Praise that names the exact behavior immediately after it occurs reinforces that behavior far more effectively than delayed or generic recognition.
    The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work
  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. Agree in advance on what good performance looks like
    Performance conversations go badly because the standard was never made explicit — the reprimand is the first time it is stated.
    The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work
  10. Separate urgent from important with a dedicated triage window
    Give urgent-but-not-important items a contained window so they stop hijacking your Focus List time.
    Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy

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