Coaching practices for Eft Safety Limits
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ve worked so hard to make my team comfortable that I’ve gone soft on the bar, and now they’re relaxed and underperforming
- I’ve already been building breath tolerance for weeks and the easy stuff feels too easy now
- I actually hit the number I said I needed, and instead of feeling free I just keep telling myself "one more year to be safe"
- Every hour of my day and every dollar of my budget is already spoken for, so the moment one small thing goes sideways the whole thing topples
- Nobody on my team will say what they really think
Practices that may help
- Hold high standards inside high safety
Safety without standards is comfort; standards without safety is fear. You need both axes high.
Psychological Safety, Made Practical - Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical
Safety behaviors are actions people take to prevent feared outcomes during anxious situations — sitting to avoid fainting, avoiding eye contact to seem less socially threatening, checking repeatedly to prevent disaster. Paul Salkovskis identified them as a central maintenance mechanism: they prevent the person from learning that the feared outcome would not have happened anyway. Fading them — systematically reducing their use — is an evidence-supported component of CBT for anxiety disorders, with the strongest evidence in panic and social anxiety. - Advanced breath holds — MHT (max hold training)
Build CO2 and O2 tolerance with progressive maximum breath holds — used by elite freedivers and now applied to sport.
The Oxygen Advantage, Made Practical - Recognize the "one more year" behavioral trap
Postponing retirement indefinitely for incremental safety is a real and documented behavioral pattern.
The 4 Percent Rule, Made Practical - Build in slack — time, money, and energy buffers
Never plan to use 100% of your resources; leave a buffer for what you did not anticipate.
Margin of Safety - Margin of Safety
Benjamin Graham's margin of safety principle says: never rely on everything going right. Build in a buffer between your estimated value and the price you pay — or between your estimate of a situation and the assumptions you act on. As a general mental model, it means structuring decisions so you can be wrong and still survive. - Create safety for experimentation and honest challenge
Make it safe to raise problems, test new ideas, and disagree — before expecting the team to transform.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - Map your personal zone boundaries
Name what is currently easy, what is doable-but-challenging, and what would shut you down.
The Comfort Zone Model: How to Grow Without Burning Out - Schedule boundary conversations — don’t have them reactively
Prepare and initiate limit-setting conversations when you’re calm, not when the violation has just happened.
Saying No and Holding Boundaries - Respond productively to failure and bad news
How you react in the first thirty seconds after a mistake either banks or burns safety.
Psychological Safety, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Margin Of Safety At Work
Benjamin Graham's margin of safety principle says: never rely on everything going right. Build in a buffer between your estimated value and the price you pay — or between your estimate of a situation and the assumptions you act on. As a general mental model, it means structuring decisions so you can be wrong and still survive.
- Safety And Performance
Safety without standards is comfort; standards without safety is fear. You need both axes high.
Hold high standards inside high safety
- Safety Behavior Fading With My Team
Safety behaviors are actions people take to prevent feared outcomes during anxious situations — sitting to avoid fainting, avoiding eye contact to seem less socially threatening, checking repeatedly to prevent disaster. Paul Salkovskis identified them as a central maintenance mechanism: they prevent the person from learning that the feared outcome would not have happened anyway. Fading them — systematically reducing their use — is an evidence-supported component of CBT for anxiety disorders, with the strongest evidence in panic and social anxiety.
- Salkovskis Safety Behavior
Safety behaviors are actions people take to prevent feared outcomes during anxious situations — sitting to avoid fainting, avoiding eye contact to seem less socially threatening, checking repeatedly to prevent disaster. Paul Salkovskis identified them as a central maintenance mechanism: they prevent the person from learning that the feared outcome would not have happened anyway. Fading them — systematically reducing their use — is an evidence-supported component of CBT for anxiety disorders, with the strongest evidence in panic and social anxiety.
- Amy Edmondson Psychological Safety
Psychological safety — the shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking — is built through consistent leader behavior: inviting input, responding non-punitively to mistakes, and modeling fallibility. Amy Edmondson’s research links it to learning behaviors and team performance across healthcare, tech, and manufacturing; the causal chain from safety to performance runs through candor and error reporting, not through comfort alone.
- Create Team Safety
Make every team member feel valued and accepted as a human being before expecting performance.
Establish inclusion safety — belonging without conditions
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