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  • My whole attention as a manager is tuned to what’s broken
  • There are a few situations that go badly every single time
  • 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
  • I lose my temper with my kid and then feel sick about it for hours

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. Plan behavior management strategies in advance
    Decide how you will respond to predictable problems before they happen.
    Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders)
  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. Manage your own emotional state before responding
    A regulated parent is the single most powerful behavior management tool available.
    Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders)
  7. Spend quality one-on-one time with your child
    Fifteen minutes of child-led, uninterrupted attention per day builds the relationship that discipline depends on.
    Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders)
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Give clear, calm, single instructions
    One specific direction at a time, calmly stated once, is more effective than repeated commands.
    Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders)

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