Coaching practices for I Catch Myself Walking Into Every One on One Asking What I Need Out of This Person and Almost Never What Would Actually Help Them Grow and I Want to Flip That to Make Their Development the Thing I'm Measuring Myself on

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• I catch myself walking into every one-on-one asking what I need out of this person, and almost never what would actually help them grow
• 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
• I measure myself against people who have more or are further along
• I keep measuring myself against where everyone else is and never against where I started, so no matter how far I’ve actually come I always feel behind
• Someone comes to me upset and I dive straight into fixing it with advice, and only afterward do I realize they just wanted to be heard

Practices that may help

1. Put the growth of others first
   Start from "how do I help this person succeed?" rather than "how do they help me succeed?"
   Servant Leadership, Made Practical
2. 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
3. Interrupting upward social comparison
   Notice when comparison is generating discontent and shift attention to your own trajectory.
   Santosha: The Practice of Contentment
4. Switch to temporal self-comparison
   Compare your current self to your past self, not to others — the only comparison that measures actual progress.
   The Comparison Trap
5. Ask "How can I help?" instead of assuming
   Telling people how you’ll help before finding out what kind of help they want is one of the most common management errors.
   The Coaching Habit: Seven Questions to Be More Coach-Like
6. Seek developmental feedback, not just performance feedback
   Ask for feedback that challenges your assumptions about how you see, not just how you perform.
   Kegan’s Subject-Object Theory, Made Practical
7. Track performance goals against your own baseline, not others
   Measure your progress against your personal standard, not against the competitor or the leaderboard.
   Process vs. Outcome Goals in Sport and Performance
8. Spot and name character strengths in others
   Notice and explicitly name the character strengths you observe in people around you.
   VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
9. Ask "What do you want?"
   People often know what they want but haven’t said it — asking directly surfaces it and shifts from complaint to intention.
   The Coaching Habit: Seven Questions to Be More Coach-Like
10. Define success by growth and contribution, not scorekeeping
    Shifting the success metric from achievement tallies to personal growth and impact changes what you optimise for — usually for the better.
    Goal-Free Living: When Process Beats Destination

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