Coaching practices for Should I Tell an Employee She's Sabotaging Herself Two Weeks Before I Leave My Job

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• I keep dropping problems on my boss’s desk and waiting for them to tell me what to do, and I can feel it reads as me not owning my work
• I think my boss is about to make the wrong call and I’m biting my tongue to keep the peace, then quietly stewing about it after
• My boss keeps checking in and hovering over my work, and it makes me feel untrusted
• Someone on my team is clearly going through something heavy and I’ve just been carrying on talking deliverables like nothing’s wrong
• I leave work but work never leaves me

Practices that may help

1. Bring a proposed solution when you bring a problem
   Describe the problem and your recommended path before asking for a decision.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
2. Disagree with your manager constructively
   State your disagreement clearly, give your reasoning, and then commit to the decision — without sacrificing either honesty or loyalty.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
3. Send proactive, brief status updates
   Update your manager on important work before they ask — in the format and frequency they actually want.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
4. 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
5. Use a 15-minute end-of-day planning buffer to close the day’s loops
   Before leaving work, take 15 minutes to list tomorrow’s priorities and explicitly close today’s open loops.
   The Zeigarnik Effect: How Unfinished Tasks Occupy Your Mind
6. Confess when you are prepared
   If you tell people you prepared well, failure costs more — so you prepare more.
   Self-Handicapping: Recognizing and Stopping the Excuse Setup
7. 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
8. Respond productively to failure and bad news
   How you react in the first thirty seconds after a mistake either banks or burns safety.
   Psychological Safety, Made Practical
9. Extend the compassion you would give a friend to yourself
   Ask what you would say to a capable friend who had delayed on the same task — then say that.
   Self-Forgiveness and Procrastination
10. Remove the conditions that enable the handicap
    Prevent the specific obstacles you create — environment is easier to change than willpower.
    Self-Handicapping: Recognizing and Stopping the Excuse Setup

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