Coaching practices for What Can I Do to Make a Coworker's Lack of Effort More Visible

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• I keep assuming this person just didn’t try hard enough and pushing them to care more, and nothing changes
• My whole attention as a manager is tuned to what’s broken
• 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 notice I only really put in the effort when someone’s watching or there’s credit in it, and the boring fundamentals slide
• Everyone on my team is quietly playing for their own scoreboard

Practices that may help

1. Explore before you prescribe: diagnose why the gap happened
   The solution to a missed commitment depends entirely on what caused the miss — and you usually don’t know until you ask.
   Crucial Accountability: Holding People to Commitments That Matter
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. 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. Do the unsexy work no one else sees
   Consistent private effort on unglamorous fundamentals separates actual performance from performance of performance.
   The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice
5. 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
6. Map your manager’s top three priorities
   Know what your manager is measured on and being pressured about — your work lands differently when it connects to that.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
7. Bring a proposed solution when you bring a problem
   Describe the problem and your recommended path before asking for a decision.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
8. Show up for the person, not just the deliverable
   Acknowledge what is happening in someone’s life when it is clearly affecting them — before addressing the work.
   Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor
9. Contribution mapping
   Trace the visible chain from your daily work to a person or outcome that benefits.
   Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day
10. Calibrate effort attributions carefully
    Attribute failure to insufficient effort only when more effort was genuinely the variable — not as a substitute for honest strategy analysis.
    Attributional Retraining, Made Practical

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