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)

Expanding Your Group and Team Coaching Toolkit #6 - Values

This week's Expanding Your Coaching Toolkit focus is on values. Values act as anchors, helping us make better decisions, prioritize and communicate what’s

important for us. In a team context several things are important around values:

What are the values each individual brings to the team?

How aligned are our values with each other?

What are our team values? How does that differ from other individuals? From the organizational values?

What is important and how does that get translated? How do values translate to behaviors and practices?

How to Work with Values:

There are many different ways to work with values including:

·         A values checklist

·         Having people talk about a peak experience (individually or collectively) and pulling values from that story. You might ask the question – “Think about a time when you were at your best as a team. Describe it.:

·         Creating a values shield of what is important to them. This shield or tapestry can be left visible

·         Creating a values word string – given that there are multiple layers to values, a word string capturing adjectives.

Working with Values  - Team Vs Group

When working with a group it is likely that you will be helping each group member identify their own individual values. When working with a team, the focus is often:

1.       What are the values? How are they translated into action?

2.       What does alignment around the values and behaviors that the team is practicing. As a virtual team it can be very important to have them aligned so that the experience of working in area one, is like area two.

3.       Exploring values at the individual, team and organizational levels. What’s aligned? What is not?

Six Questions - Values

1.       What is important to you?

2.       What do you notice about alignment with the goals?

3.       How do your values get translated into action?

4.       What’s important to note about the values you hold?

1.       Where are values being honored?

2.       Where are they not?

What is important to explore this week around values with your group and team coaching clients?

Enjoy the conversation,

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 Friday May 3rd -2 spots still remain - 8.75 CCEs), Advanced Group and Team Coaching Practicum (starts Friday May 3rd - 3 spots open: 10 CCEs) or the Virtual Facilitation Essentials(starts Monday May 6th  - 4 spots open - 8.5 CCEs)