Coaching practices for I Realize I Know Exactly What Each Person on My Team is Working on This Week but Almost Nothing About Where They're Actually Trying to Get to in Their Life and I Think They Can Feel That I Only See Them as the Work They Produce for Me
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- I realize I know exactly what each person on my team is working on this week but almost nothing about where they’re actually trying to get to in their life
- Every single one-on-one we only ever talk about this week’s deliverables, and we never once zoom out to where they’re headed
- My whole week is just a pile of work tasks, and the parts of me that matter
- My whole week is an undifferentiated blur where every single day mixes a bit of everything, and I end most of them drained and somehow with nothing finished
- I end every week technically slammed but motivationally empty
Practices that may help
- Learn what each person actually wants from their career and life
Care personally means knowing the goal behind the job — not just what they’re working on, but why.
Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor - Spend real time on growth, not just tasks
Regularly leave the weeds and talk about career, skills, and where they’re headed.
Effective One-on-Ones, Made Practical - Plan from roles and goals, not from tasks
Before listing tasks, list your key roles this week and name one meaningful goal for each.
Big Rocks First - Assign a theme to each day of the week
Decide in advance which type of work each weekday is for and protect those assignments.
Theme Days, Made Practical - Protect time for work that matches your genius
Deliberately schedule blocks of genius-type work before filling the rest of the week.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - 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 - Anchor the week to your personal mission statement
Before weekly planning, briefly re-read your personal mission statement to orient priorities.
Big Rocks First - Look at the higher altitudes — goals, areas of focus, and purpose
Once per week, check that your active projects still align with your goals, roles, and values.
The GTD Weekly Review - Use a planning and strategy day
Reserve a recurring window for thinking about direction, reviewing systems, and planning the coming week.
Theme Days, Made Practical - Weekly planning
Set the week’s priorities and rough blocks before the week starts.
Time Blocking, Made Practical
Related concerns
- When Effective One On Ones Invest In Growth
Regularly leave the weeds and talk about career, skills, and where they’re headed.
Spend real time on growth, not just tasks
- When Theme Days Planning And Strategy Day
Reserve a recurring window for thinking about direction, reviewing systems, and planning the coming week.
Use a planning and strategy day
- Covey Roles And Goals
Regularly leave the weeds and talk about career, skills, and where they’re headed.
- How To Organize Your Week By Type Of Work
Decide in advance which type of work each weekday is for and protect those assignments.
Assign a theme to each day of the week
- Protect Weekly Planning Time
On Monday morning (or Sunday evening), name three "big rocks" and block calendar time for each before anything else.
Identify and schedule big rocks at the start of each week
- Design Your Perfect Week
Draw the week you want to live, then defend it from the week that arrives.
Design your ideal week before you fill it
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