Coaching practices for Execution Habits Company

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • When it’s just a promise to myself I let it slide without a second thought, but the moment I have to say out loud to someone else what I’ll get done and then report back, suddenly I actually follow through.
  • Every time I commit to a new habit it’s all-or-nothing
  • I forget to mark whether I actually did the thing, so days slip by unlogged and I only notice gaps later from memory
  • We’ve got nice-sounding values up on the wall and the website, but they do nothing in the room when a real hiring or judgment call is on the table
  • I notice I only really put in the effort when someone’s watching or there’s credit in it, and the boring fundamentals slide

Practices that may help

  1. Run a weekly accountability session
    Hold a short weekly meeting — just 20 minutes — where each person reports on last week’s commitments and makes new ones.
    The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX)
  2. Apply PDSA to a behavior you want to build or break
    Treat habit formation as a series of small experiments rather than a commitment you either keep or blow.
    Plan–Do–Study–Act: Deming’s Loop for Personal Improvement
  3. Do a one-minute daily close to earn the chain link
    End each day with a brief review of whether the chain behavior happened and mark the calendar before going to bed.
    The Seinfeld Strategy: Don’t Break the Chain
  4. Make core values operational, not decorative
    Use core values in hiring, recognition, and decision-making — not just on the website.
    The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
  5. The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
    Verne Harnish’s Rockefeller Habits (updated in Scaling Up) distill John D. Rockefeller’s management practices into a system of priorities, data, and meeting rhythms that keep growing companies focused and coordinated. The framework is practitioner-developed and widely used in scale-up companies; the evidence base is primarily case-study and clinical rather than controlled trial.
  6. Do the unsexy work no one else sees
    Consistent private effort on unglamorous fundamentals separates actual performance from performance of performance.
    The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice
  7. Outperform expectations in every context
    Becoming the person who consistently delivers beyond what’s expected is a discipline practice, not just a performance tactic.
    The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice
  8. Set quarterly rocks — the three to five priorities each leader must advance
    Each leadership team member commits to three to five specific outcomes to deliver this quarter.
    The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
  9. 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.
  10. Use Start-Stop-Keep reviews to drive continuous improvement
    Regularly ask what the team should start, stop, and keep doing — and act on the answers.
    The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus

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