Coaching practices for The Power of Full Engagement in a New Job

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • I’ve got a new hire starting and the lazy move is to just hand them whatever’s piled up in the backlog
  • I’ve gotten ruthlessly efficient at all of it and I’m emptier than ever
  • My work oscillates between mind-numbing boredom when it’s too easy and a jittery anxiety when it’s over my head, and I almost never land in that absorbed zone where time disappears
  • I keep hiring for the most impressive resume and then watching them work purely transactionally, and I want to start screening for whether someone actually believes in what we’re doing
  • I already know what I’m good at, but I only ever use those strengths in the same few familiar places

Practices that may help

  1. The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical
    Loehr and Schwartz argue that performance depends on managing energy, not time: you have physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy, and the key is oscillating between full engagement and real recovery rather than pushing linearly. The four-dimensions model is a practitioner framework, but its building blocks — recovery, breaks, sleep, exercise, and meaning — each have their own real support.
  2. Use genius mapping in onboarding
    Surface a new hire’s geniuses early so you design their role around energy, not just skills.
    The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
  3. Connect to purpose (spiritual energy)
    Anchor effort to values and meaning, the deepest and most renewable source of drive.
    The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical
  4. Design your work environment for flow (engagement pillar)
    Structure your tasks so challenge slightly exceeds skill — the sweet spot for deep engagement.
    Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
  5. Hire people who share the Why, not just the skills
    Skills can be learned; shared belief cannot — filtering for Why-alignment at hiring is the highest-leverage culture move.
    Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose
  6. Use a signature strength in a new way each day for one week
    Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
    VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
  7. Manage emotional energy
    Cultivate positive emotional states deliberately, since they fuel performance and connection.
    The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical
  8. Oscillate deliberately between full engagement and full recovery
    Treat disengagement between performances as a skill to develop, not an indulgence to manage.
    The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical
  9. Develop interest, don’t just wait to find it
    Deepen passion through engagement over time rather than expecting instant fit.
    Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed
  10. Forming: provide clarity before connection
    In the first stage, a new team needs structure and purpose more than it needs team-building.
    Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development

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