The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Coaching for performance is about addressing and fixing a specific problem or challenge. It’s putting out the fire or building up the fire or banking the fire. It’s everyday stuff, and it’s important and necessary. Coaching for development is about turning the focus from the issue to the person dealing with the issue, the person who’s managing the

An almost fail-safe way to start a chat that quickly turns into a real conversation is the question, “What’s on your mind?”

there are just five types of triggers: location, time, emotional state, other people, and the immediately preceding action.

Resilient systems build in fail-safes so that when something breaks down, the next step to recover is obvious. Make your habit a resilient system.

There are three parts to the formula: identifying the trigger, identifying the old habit and defining the new behaviour.

The three components of Deep Practice are: Practicing small chunks of the bigger action (for instance, rather than practice the whole tennis serve, you practice just tossing the ball up). Repetition, repetition and repetition… and repetition. Do it fast, do it slow, do it differently. But keep repeating the action. And finally, being mindful and no

if you don’t know what triggers the old behaviour, you’ll never change it because you’ll already be doing it before you know

So think less about what your habit can do for you, and more about how this new habit will help a person or people you care about.

To build an effective new habit, you need five essential components: a reason, a trigger, a micro-habit, effective practice, and a plan.