Coaching practices for Successful Project Being Taken by Higher Ranking Vp Feel Demoralized
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- Someone senior just found out about a change after the fact and was hurt they were the last to know
- I keep delivering work I’m proud of and it somehow lands flat with my boss, and I’m realizing I have no real idea what they’re actually being judged on or pressured about
- There are people on my team I’ve quietly written off
- Looking back over the last few months, the projects I was sure would be huge mostly went nowhere, while a couple I barely planned for turned out to matter most
- I’m good at my job and on top of my commitments, and yet I’m quietly miserable
Practices that may help
- Inform stakeholders before they ask, not after they complain
I’s are one-way — they receive information; the cost of surprising them is always higher than the cost of telling them.
The RACI Matrix, Made Practical - Map your manager’s top three priorities
Know what your manager is measured on and being pressured about — your work lands differently when it connects to that.
Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss - Deliberately expand your inner circle
Move team members from low-LMX to high-LMX through intentional relationship investment.
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical - Run a project-level Pareto analysis quarterly
Every quarter, analyze which projects generated 80% of your meaningful progress and let that drive next-quarter commitments.
The Pareto Principle: 80/20 for Personal Productivity - Apply the matrix at the role level, not just the task level
Audit which of your entire roles or commitments are Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4 — not just individual tasks.
The Eisenhower Life Audit - Use delegation as a development tool
Assign Q3 tasks to team members who are ready to stretch — and treat the learning curve as the point.
The Eisenhower Matrix and Delegation - Articulate a compelling vision of why the work matters
Connect the team’s daily work to a meaningful purpose they can believe in.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - Run a regular team elimination review
Periodically review what the team is doing that no longer serves any current goal.
The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams - Review your goal hierarchy to ensure lower goals serve higher ones
When daily tasks are disconnected from values, motivation mysteriously evaporates — close the hierarchy gap.
Goal Systems Theory: How Goals Work Together (and Against Each Other) - Invite clients or reports to contribute insight to your approach
Asking someone you lead for their input increases their investment in the outcome.
The Ben Franklin Effect, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Empowering Employees
Connect the team’s daily work to a meaningful purpose they can believe in.
Articulate a compelling vision of why the work matters
- Empowering Team Members
Connect the team’s daily work to a meaningful purpose they can believe in.
- Leader Follower Exchange
Leader-member exchange theory, developed by George Graen and Mary Uhl-Bien, holds that leaders do not treat all followers the same — they develop distinct dyadic relationships ranging from high-LMX (trust, respect, mutual obligation) to low-LMX (formal, exchange-based). High-LMX relationships are consistently associated with better performance, satisfaction, and career outcomes in observational research.
- Leader Member Exchange Scale
Leader-member exchange theory, developed by George Graen and Mary Uhl-Bien, holds that leaders do not treat all followers the same — they develop distinct dyadic relationships ranging from high-LMX (trust, respect, mutual obligation) to low-LMX (formal, exchange-based). High-LMX relationships are consistently associated with better performance, satisfaction, and career outcomes in observational research.
- Mastery Experiences With My Team
Albert Bandura identified mastery experiences — successfully completing difficult tasks — as the most powerful source of self-efficacy. Unlike praise or encouragement, mastery experiences produce direct evidence of capability; the brain stores that evidence and draws on it under future challenge. The evidence across clinical, educational, and occupational research is strong.
- The Minto Pyramid Principle In A New Job
Barbara Minto’s Pyramid Principle says to lead with the answer, then support it with grouped, parallel reasoning. The approach originated at McKinsey and is widely adopted in consulting, law, and business writing. Direct evidence for its superiority over other structures is limited — it is established professional practice rather than an experimentally validated method.
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