Coaching practices for I Only Ever Seem to Show Up to This Person's Desk When I Need Something Corrected and I'm Realizing I Haven't Done a Single Thing Purely for Their Benefit in Months So of Course My Feedback Keeps Landing Like an Ambush

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• I only ever seem to show up to this person’s desk when I need something corrected, and I’m realizing I haven’t done a single thing purely for their benefit in months
• I tend to bite my tongue in the moment and save things up for the formal review, and then I dump weeks of accumulated issues on someone all at once
• Feedback in my one-on-ones only ever flows one way
• When I just hand someone my assessment they go passive and defensive, like I’m doing something to them
• No matter how carefully I word it, my feedback seems to land as me sitting in judgment over them from above

Practices that may help

1. Give something genuine before you ask for something hard
   The trust account needs deposits before you make a withdrawal — invest in the relationship before demanding performance.
   Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor
2. Give feedback in the moment, not stockpiled for reviews
   Feedback accumulated for a periodic review arrives late and in bulk — neither helps.
   The Feedback Sandwich: Why It Doesn’t Work and What to Do Instead
3. Make feedback flow in both directions
   Give timely, specific feedback — and ask for it on your own management.
   Effective One-on-Ones, Made Practical
4. Ask what the person already knows before offering your assessment
   Ask the person to evaluate their own performance before giving yours.
   The Feedback Sandwich: Why It Doesn’t Work and What to Do Instead
5. Establish shared purpose before delivering critique
   Frame critique as help toward a shared goal, not an evaluation from above.
   The Feedback Sandwich: Why It Doesn’t Work and What to Do Instead
6. Anchor feedback to a specific situation
   Name the exact time and place before you say anything else.
   The SBI Feedback Model, Made Practical
7. Make feedback specific and behavioral, not evaluative
   Describe what you observed, not what it says about the person.
   The Feedback Sandwich: Why It Doesn’t Work and What to Do Instead
8. Invite a response after delivering SBI
   Close SBI by asking what the other person makes of it — not with a verdict.
   The SBI Feedback Model, Made Practical
9. Let the report own the agenda
   It’s their meeting — they bring what matters to them, and you adapt to it.
   Effective One-on-Ones, Made Practical
10. 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

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