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• My whole attention as a manager is tuned to what’s broken
• In practice everything is automatic, but the second the stakes are real I start second-guessing and improvising
• When it matters most my mind scatters everywhere at once
• 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
• I run on autopilot from one thing to the next and only realize how wound up I am once I’ve snapped at someone

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. Anchor clutch performance to a practiced pressure routine
   The most reliable way to perform under pressure is to execute the same routine you have practiced hundreds of times.
   The Clutch State: Performing Under Pressure
4. Direct focus to controllables only, especially under pressure
   When pressure is highest, narrow attention to what you can directly influence — and let everything else go.
   The Clutch State: Performing Under Pressure
5. 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
6. The three-minute breathing space
   A short, three-step mini-practice to step out of autopilot in the middle of a stressful day.
   Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
7. Stress Inoculation: Pre-Exposure to Prepare for Future Stress
   Deliberately practice under conditions that simulate the stress of future high-stakes performance.
   Deliberate Discomfort: Using Voluntary Challenge to Build Resilience
8. Use the prayer as a real-time triage tool in high-stress moments
   In acute stress, running the three-part sequence interrupts reactivity and restores the capacity to respond.
   The Serenity Prayer as a Practice Framework
9. Build coping skills before the storm
   Practice regulation skills in calm times so they’re available — and credible — under pressure.
   Building Resilience, Made Practical
10. Practice the "see it, own it, use it" reappraisal
    Crum’s framework: notice the stress (see it), acknowledge why it matters (own it), and channel it (use it).
    The Stress-Is-Enhancing Mindset

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