Expanding Your Group and Team Coaching Toolkit – Habits (8)

Habits are the things we do repeatedly. As coaches these are elements that are often “under the

waterline” and may be done subconsciously, without a lot of thought. Under times of pressure or stress, this is where we go to naturally. 

Exploring the topic of habits with clients can be a rich area of insight and exploration. 

 Research has shown that habits do take more than the 21 days we used to think they needed to create. 

The most recent research points to an average of:

Some of the habits we may coach around include:

Taking daily action around marketing, weight loss, reading, organizing etc.

Getting up at a certain time of day or ensuring that we log off by a certain time of day

Modifying activities

Getting into a practice of writing or posting on social media

What are the habit areas which you might coach your clients around?

Coaching Tools Around Habits:

There are several ways we may coach around habits

Back to the analogy of the Iceberg which I include in my books – Coaching Business Builder and Plan Do Track – habits are below the waterline

We might also have people note or track their activities to notice the patterns of behavior. Note the photo in the graphic here  - this is one of the Monthly Daily Trackers from the Coaching Business Builder and Plan Do Track. Whether we are tracking revenue in or when we post, data can be invaluable in pointing to patterns and habits.

Habits usually include some work around mindset as well as behaviors. What are the tools you have at your disposal to coach around mindset? What are the mindsets that are helping others around consistent action?

Six Questions around habits :

1   Thinking about HABITS:

       What are the areas you want to build more automatic behaviors around?

2.       What habits are you leaning into right now to get success?

3.       What habits are hindering you?

4.       What one thing would you like to do consistently?

5.       How can habits help you get the results you want?

6.       What mindsets are feeding into your most important habits in business right now? (Consider one thing you do consistently. What are the beliefs and mindsets behind this)?

Resources:

Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of our Daily Lives - Gretchen Rubin

The Coaching Habit – Michael Bungay Stanier

The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg

Smarter, Faster, Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity- Charles Duhigg

 Wellcoaches School – Habits – This looks like an interesting on-demand program around habits. Check it out here.

Enjoy your conversations,

Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, CPCC, PCC – Potentials Realized 
Leadership | Teamwork | Business Success
Author of Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), Coaching Business Builder Workbook and Planner (2018) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013)
Follow along with the #90DaysPlanDoTrack series over at Instagram @CoachingBizBuilder 
Join the conversation at the Conversation Sparker Zone - our online community where you can explore virtual and team issues, coaching, productivity and business development)

Join us for an upcoming ICF CCE approved program - Group Coaching Essentials (starts June - 8.75 CCEs), Advanced Group and Team Coaching Practicum (starts July): 10 CCEs) or the Virtual Facilitation Essentials(starts July 8.5 CCEs)