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Leadership
Group Coaching Facilitation Basics
In group coaching, your role isn't answering but fairly distributing attention and turning one person's problem into collective learning.
Psychological
Worry Postponement Window
Log your worry now and postpone it to a designated 15-minute window in your day.
Psychological
Perfectionism Ruler
Define where your "good enough" is on a 0-100 ruler, to know when to stop.
Professional
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Pomodoro Technique 25/5
Short cycles of 25 minutes work and 5 minutes rest that restore focus in a single session.
Professional
Eisenhower Matrix
Sort your tasks into four quadrants in ten minutes to know exactly what to do now, defer, delegate, or drop.
Professional
Most Important Tasks (MITs)
Pick three tasks that make today a success regardless of anything else, and finish them before noon.
Professional
SBI Feedback Model
Deliver effective feedback in 3 parts (Situation—Behavior—Impact) so the other person hears you without defensiveness.
Professional
Task Batching
Group similar tasks into one slot.
Professional
Eisenhower Matrix
Sort tasks on urgent/important axes and treat each quadrant with its rule.
Professional
GROW Coaching Question
Instead of solutions, ask GROW: Goal-Reality-Options-Will — let person craft his solution.
Social
Let Me Think and Get Back to You
Do not commit on the spot. Request 24 hours to think before any new obligation.
Social
"What Am I Forgetting to Ask You?"
After a deep talk, ask: "What do I need to ask that I haven't?" — a trust revealer.
Social
Prep 1-on-1 With Manager
Prep your 1-on-1 with SBI + GROW: situation, behavior, impact, then open GROW questions.
Social
Prep First Mentor Meeting
Prep your first mentor meeting with GROW + one single specific question.
Social
Powerful GROW Questions
Practice asking open GROW questions instead of giving advice in every mentoring meeting.
Social
Mentor Give-Back Ritual
Design a quarterly give-back ritual for your mentor (written thanks, referral, intro).
Social
Personal Board of Mentors
Design a 5-mentor board: technical, strategic, life, spiritual, peer.
Social
Short Group Mentoring
As mentor: organize a 60-min GROW group session for 4 people.
Social
Mentor-Need Matching
Use a matrix to match the right mentor with your real need before asking.
Social
Peer Mentorship
Form a peer duo/trio committing to monthly GROW.
Social
Reverse Mentorship
Mentor a younger person in new tech/culture, and learn from them in return.
Social
End Mentorship Gracefully
When mentorship phase ends, close it with a gratitude meeting + redefine the relationship.
Social
Mentor vs Sponsor: The Distinction
Identify who is your mentor (teaches) vs sponsor (opens doors) — both crucial.
Administrative
Non-Delegatable Task List
Explicitly write a list of 3-5 tasks you never delegate, and delegate everything else without hesitation.
Administrative
No-Agenda-No-Meeting Rule
Refuse to attend or hold any meeting whose agenda did not arrive 24 hours prior, no exceptions.
Administrative
Advanced Eisenhower Matrix
Sort your week's tasks into four quadrants: urgent-important, important-not-urgent, urgent-not-important, neither.
Administrative
Post-Delegation SBI Feedback
After any delegated task completes, deliver feedback in Situation-Behavior-Impact format.
Administrative
"No Agenda, No Meeting" Rule
Decline any meeting without a written agenda — politely cancel and request one.
Administrative
Task Audit Then Automate
Don't automate before knowing what's worth it — log a week, analyze, then act.
Administrative
Copy-Paste Eliminator
Every recurring copy-paste = automation chance — find, count, automate.
Administrative
Recurring Meeting Purge
Per recurring meeting: "does it produce decision/action?" — if no, kill it.
Administrative
Template Library
Every doc type written 3+× yearly has template — write once, use forever.
Administrative
Keyboard Shortcut Audit
Per daily-used tool: learn 5 shortcuts — minutes/day saved = hours/year.
Administrative
Zero-Based Headcount Review
Don't ask "do we need another hire?" — ask "if we started today with nobody, who'd we hire first?".
Leadership
GROW Model for Coaching Conversations
A 30-min conversation with a report: Goal, Reality, Options, Will — to grow their thinking instead of giving answers.
Leadership
Bank of 10 Powerful Questions
Memorize 10 coaching questions that open any conversation, replacing answers 80% of the time.
Leadership
Feedforward Coaching
Instead of feedback on the past, ask reports for future suggestions — less defensiveness, higher application.
Leadership
Multiplier vs. Diminisher Diagnosis
Determine if you multiply your team's intelligence or drain it via 5 specific leader behaviors.
Leadership
Designing the Weekly 1-1
30 weekly minutes with each direct report, following 3 questions only: what, how, where stuck.
Leadership
Build SBI Feedback for Reports
Frame feedback in 3 sentences: Situation, Behavior, Impact — strips bias, refocuses on behavior.
Leadership
Monkey Management
Each time a report brings a problem, the monkey jumps on your back. Your job: keep it on theirs.
Leadership
Weekly Service Ritual in 1-on-1s
In every 1-on-1, ask: "How can I serve you this week? What's blocking you that I can remove?"
Leadership
Listening Before Advising: The 3:1 Rule
In every leadership conversation, listen 3 minutes for every 1 you speak. Advice after understanding, not before.
Leadership
Hersey & Blanchard's Situational Leadership
Direction level must match employee's maturity on the task. 4 styles, pick right one per case.
Leadership
CCL's 70-20-10 Development Model
Real development: 70% from hard assignments, 20% from relationships, 10% from training. Focus on the 70.
Leadership
Designing an Effective Stretch Assignment
Task 20% bigger than employee's current ability. Scares 30%, fails 30%, succeeds 40%. Difficult balance.
Leadership
Monthly Sponsorship List
Each month, identify 3 employees you'll name in rooms they don't enter. Sponsorship is system, not event.
Leadership
Succession Planning: Who Replaces You?
For each leadership role in your team (including yours), 2-3 ready successors. Otherwise, you're a prisoner of your role.
Leadership
Onboarding a New Team Member: 30-60-90 Day Plan
Design a 3-phase leadership onboarding plan: Learn (30) → Contribute (60) → Own (90) — instead of leaving the new member to "figure it out alone".
Leadership
Coaching a Peer (Not a Direct Report)
Coach a peer at your same management level with no hierarchical authority — the challenge here is separating friendship from neutrality, not authority from support.
Leadership
Coaching Through a Plateau
When someone's progress stalls despite real effort, look for what changed in their performance pattern, not just "less motivation".
Leadership
Silence as a Coaching Tool
After every powerful question you ask, count a full 7 seconds of silence before speaking again — the deepest answers come after silence, not before it.
Leadership
Coaching for Confidence vs. Coaching for Competence
First diagnose: does the person lack an actual skill (competence), or have it but not trust using it (confidence)? The treatment is entirely different for each.
Leadership
Self-Coaching Protocol
When no coach is available, write out answers to GROW questions about yourself, aloud or in writing — leaders need to coach themselves too.
Leadership
Managing a Boss Who Is Never Around
When your manager is consistently unavailable, request a fixed weekly "decision window" instead of waiting for a spontaneous moment that won't come.
Parenting
Five Emotion-Coaching Steps
Apply Gottman's five steps: notice, see emotion as opportunity, listen, label, set limits and solve.
Parenting
Feeling-Words Bank
Build your child's emotional vocabulary by introducing fresh feeling-words weekly.
Parenting
Child's Mood Wheel
Use the visual emotion-wheel to pinpoint what your child feels before intervening.
Parenting
Co-Regulation Through Breath
Calm yourself first — your nervous system calms the child's via physiological synchronization.
Parenting
Your Inherited Emotion Philosophy
Examine how your own parents handled your emotions — you unconsciously replay that script.