Coaching practices for The Power of Full Engagement with My Team

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  • I treat my own bad moods as background static to just power through, and then I’m baffled when my focus and drive keep collapsing
  • My team does the work but they’re just going through the motions, and I can feel they don’t see why any of it matters
  • I’m at my best when I’m getting a room aligned and fired up
  • I’ve gotten ruthlessly efficient at all of it and I’m emptier than ever
  • Where I come alive is in the human glue

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. Manage emotional energy
    Cultivate positive emotional states deliberately, since they fuel performance and connection.
    The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical
  3. 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
  4. Lead from the influencing domain — take charge, speak up, make sure others are heard
    People strong in influencing sell the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization.
    Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
  5. 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
  6. Lead from the relationship building domain — hold the team together
    People strong in relationship building are the glue that holds a team’s cohesion under pressure.
    Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
  7. Align around collective results, not individual status
    Teams fail when members prioritize their own visibility or department’s success over the shared goal.
    The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical
  8. 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
  9. Performing: step back and protect the conditions
    A Performing team needs air cover and resources, not direction.
    Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
  10. Lead from the executing domain — deliver on goals consistently
    People strong in executing know how to take an idea and make it happen.
    Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical

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