Com B Model Stands for: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices

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Try it here: what's really blocking this behavior?

Before choosing a fix, find the real blocker: you may lack the skill, the setting, or the want. Naming it points to the right change.

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Practices that may help

  1. The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel
    COM-B (Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, Behavior) is a diagnostic framework developed by Michie and colleagues that maps the three conditions any behavior requires: you must be able to do it, have the opportunity to do it, and want to do it. Research supporting COM-B as a systematic intervention framework is largely expert-consensus and observational rather than RCT; its main value is stopping you from applying the wrong lever.
  2. Use social opportunity — others who make the behavior normal
    Position yourself in social contexts where your target behavior is modeled, expected, or easy to perform with others.
    The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel
  3. 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
  4. Strengthen automatic motivation through cue-response pairings
    Build automatic, habitual pulls toward the behavior so it does not compete for conscious motivation each time.
    The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel
  5. 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
  6. Clarify reflective motivation through values and goals
    Articulate why the behavior matters to you — in your own words, tied to your own values.
    The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel
  7. The Fogg Behavior Model, Made Practical
    BJ Fogg’s model states that behavior happens when three elements converge at the same moment: sufficient motivation, sufficient ability, and a prompt. If a behavior isn’t happening, one of these three is the bottleneck — and diagnosing which one tells you exactly what to change. The model is practitioner-developed with strong theoretical grounding; large-scale RCT evidence is limited but the framework is widely used in product design and behavior change programs.
  8. Building a Second Brain (BASB), Made Practical
    Building a Second Brain (BASB) is Tiago Forte’s system for capturing, organizing, distilling, and expressing ideas using a personal knowledge management (PKM) system. The four-step CODE framework (Capture, Organize, Distill, Express) structures an external system that reduces the cognitive load of remembering and re-finding information. BASB is a practitioner framework grounded in cognitive-offloading and note-taking research rather than a formally tested protocol.
  9. Build physical capability through deliberate skill repetition
    If you lack the physical skill or stamina a behavior requires, practice it in low-stakes conditions until it is automatic.
    The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel
  10. Constantly distinguish the map from the territory
    A model is a simplification — know precisely where yours breaks down.
    Mental Models: Charlie Munger’s Latticework Approach

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