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Six Ways to Champion Someone

The six behaviors down one side, an honest rating for each, and one concrete action with a name attached: a page a manager can keep pinned up.

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How to use this sheet
  1. Rate each behavior honestly: done without thinking, tried once or twice, or never done. Do not round up.
  2. Look at what you have never done. Pick the one that would matter most to one specific person.
  3. Write the action with a name attached: whose credit, in front of whom, which meeting, which story.
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Without thinkingtickOnce or twicetickNever donetick
Do not take the credit: deflect praise toward the team.
Share your own failures, not advice from a safe distance.
Brag about them: by name, and not only to their face.
Protect realistic goals: push back up, do not pass targets down.
Be tough on ideas, kind on people.
Amplify their voice: create the moment, the stage, the credit line.
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Source Based on \"6 Ways Great Managers Champion Their Employees\" by Andy Przystanski, published by Lattice (August 2020). Adapted by Mat Dufour.