Coaching practices for Recognizing Accomplishments

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• When something goes well I tend to quietly absorb the credit or just say "great team effort," and I never actually name who did what
• I showed up for something hard last week when I really didn’t want to, and instead of letting it count toward "I’m someone who follows through," I just blew past it onto the next demand without a thought.
• I tossed off a "great work" to someone and watched it land flat, because we both knew I hadn’t really looked at what they did
• I keep my small wins to myself because it feels like bragging, so they quietly evaporate
• When someone does something genuinely great I just toss off a "nice work" and move on, and it barely registers

Practices that may help

1. Give recognition generously and specifically
   Call out others’ contributions publicly, specifically, and without claiming credit for yourself.
   Give and Take: The Giver Advantage
2. Thank your past self for showing up
   Look back at a completed behavior or commitment and acknowledge your past self for doing it.
   Celebrating Small Wins
3. Give recognition that names the person’s specific effort, not just the outcome
   Generic praise signals you were not paying attention; specific recognition proves you were.
   Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor
4. Share wins with someone who will genuinely celebrate with you
   Name a specific small win to a person who will respond with real positivity — amplifying the emotional signal.
   Celebrating Small Wins
5. Use SBI for positive feedback, not just correction
   Name the situation, behavior, and impact when someone does something right.
   The SBI Feedback Model, Made Practical
6. Celebrate growth, not just goal attainment
   Recognize progress in who you are becoming, not only whether you hit the number.
   Self-Concordant Goals, Made Practical
7. Write the passages about what you are genuinely proud of
   Acknowledge, without false modesty, the things you have done that were worth doing.
   The Legacy Letter: Writing What You Want to Leave Behind
8. 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
9. Celebrating Small Wins
   BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits research shows that immediate positive emotion after a behavior is the most reliable way to wire it into an automatic habit. Small wins are not just morale boosters — they produce the dopaminergic reinforcement signal that tells the brain "do this again." The evidence for celebration as a habit-formation tool is mechanistically strong, with growing observational and experimental support.
10. Track mastery progress, not just outcomes (accomplishment pillar)
    Measure your growth in capability over time, not only whether you hit your targets.
    Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical

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