Coaching practices for Greasing the Groove with My Team

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Greasing the Groove with My Team, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

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

• I’m trying to improve at five different moves at once and progress on every one of them is crawling
• My team keeps dropping the ball at the same stage every single project
• I keep making the call that looks good this quarter and quietly costs the team a year out, and I want to start deciding like someone holding all this in trust for the long run rather than spending it to hit the number in front of me.
• Every time I train I push each set until my arms are shaking and I have to take three days off to recover
• Everyone on my team is quietly playing for their own scoreboard

Practices that may help

1. Greasing the Groove, Made Practical
   Greasing the groove (GTG) is a strength training method developed by Pavel Tsatsouline in which you perform a target movement frequently throughout the day at sub-maximal effort — typically 40-60% of maximum — without ever training to failure. The goal is neurological efficiency rather than hypertrophy: myelinating the motor pattern so the movement becomes more automatic and powerful. Evidence is mechanistically grounded in motor learning research; formal RCTs specifically testing GTG as a protocol are limited.
2. Target GTG at one specific goal movement
   GTG works through accumulated neurological specificity — spreading it across too many movements dilutes the signal.
   Greasing the Groove, Made Practical
3. 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)
4. Practice foresight and stewardship
   Hold the team’s resources and future in trust — decide for the long game, not just this quarter.
   Servant Leadership, Made Practical
5. Train at 40-60% of maximum — the sub-maximal effort rule
   Each GTG set should feel easy: you stop well before any form breakdown or perceived effort.
   Greasing the Groove, Made Practical
6. Align around collective results, not individual status
   Teams fail when members prioritize their own visibility or department’s success over the shared goal.
   The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical
7. Performing: step back and protect the conditions
   A Performing team needs air cover and resources, not direction.
   Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
8. 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
9. Obstacle anticipation before close
   Before ending, ask "what could get in the way?" and pre-plan the response.
   The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical
10. Cover and move (teamwork over silos)
    Every team and department exists to support the others toward the same mission, not to win locally.
    Extreme Ownership, Made Practical

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