Coaching practices for Change Management Framework

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• We sorted out who owned what at kickoff, but the project has shifted and two people have left since then, and now decisions are getting made by folks who aren’t even in those roles anymore
• I keep throwing action plans and systems at this change and getting nowhere, and I’m starting to suspect I jumped straight to "do it" when I haven’t even really decided yet
• I reach for the same go-to fix for every change
• I keep reaching for tracking apps and tidy action plans before I’ve done any of the inner work, and they never stick
• I’ve thrown so much at this change and it still won’t stick, and I honestly can’t tell whether the real problem is that I don’t want it enough, don’t know how, or my whole setup makes it impossible

Practices that may help

1. Review the RACI when scope or team changes
   A RACI built at kickoff and never updated is out of date the moment the first change happens.
   The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
2. Identify your current stage before choosing a strategy
   Diagnose where you actually are in the change cycle before deciding what to do.
   The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Made Practical
3. Match your intervention type to the COM-B gap
   Use the Behavior Change Wheel to select the intervention approach that fits the diagnosed gap — not your default.
   The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel
4. Apply the experiential processes early, behavioral ones later
   Use consciousness-raising and emotional arousal early; counter-conditioning and stimulus control after you commit.
   The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Made Practical
5. Diagnose before you prescribe with COM-B
   Before picking a strategy, identify which of Capability, Opportunity, or Motivation is the bottleneck.
   The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel
6. The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Made Practical
   The Transtheoretical Model (TTM), developed by Prochaska and DiClemente, proposes that behavior change moves through five stages — precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance — and that strategies effective in one stage often backfire in another. The staging framework is well-validated; the prescriptive matching of "stage-tailored" interventions shows promising but mixed results in trials.
7. Contingency Management and Token Economies
   Contingency management (CM) is a behavioral intervention that provides tangible, immediate incentives for specified target behaviors, derived from Nathan Azrin’s work on token economies. It is among the most replicated behavior-change techniques in applied settings: CM has the strongest evidence base among psychosocial treatments for stimulant and opioid use disorder. Applied outside clinical addiction contexts, the evidence is more mixed, and external reward systems require careful design to avoid undermining intrinsic motivation.
8. Inform stakeholders before they ask, not after they complain
   I’s are one-way — they receive information; the cost of surprising them is always higher than the cost of telling them.
   The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
9. Attention Management, Made Practical
   Maura Thomas argues that the limiting constraint on productive knowledge work is not time — everyone has the same 24 hours — but attention: the ability to direct focus intentionally toward chosen work rather than being pulled reactively. Her attention management framework builds practices around controlling attentional choice, reducing reactive digital stimuli, and developing the skill of proactive, intentional focus. This is a practitioner framework aligned with attention and self-regulation research rather than a formally studied protocol.
10. 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

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