Coaching practices for How Do We Introduce a Newborn to the Family Dogs

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• Every time I drop a big new idea on people cold, in the meeting, they shut it down on reflex
• Walking into a crowded party or a packed unfamiliar room, I get hit with a wave of overwhelm before I’ve even said hello
• I just landed in the new place and I keep telling myself I’ll start the good routines once I’ve settled in and unpacked
• I’ve got a new hire starting and the lazy move is to just hand them whatever’s piled up in the backlog
• I’m about to walk into a new job and a new neighborhood, and I’m already bracing for it to be awkward, rehearsing how they probably won’t take to me

Practices that may help

1. Pre-expose an idea before formally proposing it
   Introduce a concept informally and repeatedly before you need a decision on it — familiarity softens resistance.
   The Mere Exposure Effect, Made Practical
2. Conscious orienting in new or overwhelming environments
   When entering an unfamiliar or intense environment, pause and do a slow orienting before engaging — letting the system calibrate before activating.
   The Orienting Response, Made Practical
3. Install target behaviors in the new context from day one
   Begin the desired habit in the new environment before the new context develops its own competing cues.
   The Habit Discontinuity Effect
4. Use genius mapping in onboarding
   Surface a new hire’s geniuses early so you design their role around energy, not just skills.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
5. Use the anticipation of interaction to create liking before meeting
   Knowing you will interact with someone in the future makes you evaluate them more positively before it happens.
   The Propinquity Effect (Leon Festinger)
6. Name it to tame it: tell the story of the big feeling
   Help the child narrate what happened and how it felt — storytelling is brain integration.
   The Whole-Brain Child (Siegel & Bryson)
7. Use social transitions to change the norms around your behavior
   When your social group changes, use the transition to adopt the behavioral norms of the new group rather than carrying old ones.
   The Habit Discontinuity Effect
8. Forming: provide clarity before connection
   In the first stage, a new team needs structure and purpose more than it needs team-building.
   Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
9. Use analogies to transfer structure from known to unknown
   Map an unfamiliar concept onto a familiar one that shares the same relational structure.
   Concrete Examples: How to Make Abstract Ideas Stick
10. Deliver active recognition of ordinary positive moments
    Narrate what the child is doing right in real time, even when it is unremarkable.
    The Nurtured Heart Approach (Howard Glasser)

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