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  • My whole attention as a manager is tuned to what’s broken
  • I keep getting frustrated that people aren’t hitting the bar
  • 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
  • When someone does something genuinely great I tend to file it away to mention at their review, and by the time it comes around it’s gone cold and vague
  • When a setback hits I’m always blindsided, like I’d quietly assumed everything would just keep going fine

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. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Negative visualization (premeditatio malorum)
    Briefly imagine losing what you have, so you stop taking it for granted and brace for setbacks.
    Stoicism, as a Set of Practices
  7. Apply three good things to work contexts specifically
    Use the exercise to rewire what you notice about your work day — contribution, competence, and collaboration.
    Three Good Things: The Evidence-Based Gratitude Practice
  8. Actively minimize obstacles and setbacks
    Setbacks damage motivation more than equivalent progress helps — protecting progress means also clearing the path.
    The Progress Principle: Why Small Wins Fuel Motivation
  9. Recover from setbacks without quitting the goal
    Build a routine for bouncing back so setbacks don’t end the pursuit.
    Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed
  10. Account for system delays when evaluating progress
    Delays between action and result are built into every system — premature abandonment is the most common failure.
    Systems Thinking for Personal Productivity

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