Coaching practices for Atomic Habits with My Team
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- On my own I only know so much about each piece of this, and when the team brainstorms together the loudest first idea anchors everyone
- My team keeps dropping the ball at the same stage every single project
- My team is buried under recurring meetings and reports that everyone privately thinks are pointless, but no single person can just kill them
- My team has finally figured out how to work together, but it all lives in everyone’s heads
- I keep dragging the big-picture dreamers into the tedious finishing work and asking my finishers to brainstorm wild ideas, and everyone’s miserable and the handoffs are a mess
Practices that may help
- Atomic Habits, Made Practical
James Clear’s system says behavior change is a system problem, not a willpower problem: make a desired habit obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying — and do the reverse for bad ones. The most load-bearing ideas (implementation intentions, friction reduction, identity-based change) are well supported in the research literature. - Run a structured team morphological session
The method is most powerful when multiple perspectives populate the dimensions and values.
Morphological Analysis, Made Practical - Map your team’s genius coverage
Check whether all six activities are covered by someone who finds them energizing.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - Run a regular team elimination review
Periodically review what the team is doing that no longer serves any current goal.
The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams - Norming: codify agreements in writing
What the team has figured out informally needs to become explicit so it survives personnel changes.
Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development - Assign project phases to genius-matched people
Route early ideation to Wonder/Invention geniuses and execution phases to Tenacity geniuses.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - Protect important-not-urgent work as a team commitment
Schedule Q2 work on a shared calendar so urgent tasks can’t claim it by default.
The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams - Surface the source of urgency before accepting it
Ask whose urgency it is and whether it was created by a missing upstream action.
The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams - Use regular team health checks to surface dysfunction early
Teams that check in on how they’re working together catch dysfunction before it compounds.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical - Define "important" explicitly as a team
Before sorting tasks, align on what "important" means — which goals, for whom, over what time horizon.
The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams
Related concerns
- How To Align Team Priorities
Before sorting tasks, align on what "important" means — which goals, for whom, over what time horizon.
Define "important" explicitly as a team
- Protect Important Work Team
Schedule Q2 work on a shared calendar so urgent tasks can’t claim it by default.
Protect important-not-urgent work as a team commitment
- Team Input Before Project
At the start of a project, invite feedforward on how to succeed — before any performance to critique.
Use feedforward to align team members on goals before projects begin
- Collective Results Team
Teams fail when members prioritize their own visibility or department’s success over the shared goal.
Align around collective results, not individual status
- Committed Action With My Team
Committed action — a core ACT process developed by Steven Hayes — means taking concrete, repeated steps toward what you value even while discomfort is present, rather than waiting for the feeling of readiness. It is the behavioral spine of ACT, which has substantial randomized-trial support across anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and other conditions.
- Domain Coverage Team
Check whether all six activities are covered by someone who finds them energizing.
Map your team’s genius coverage
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