Coaching practices for Lee Ross Andrew Ward

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  • Our brainstorms always get hijacked by the same two loud, senior voices while the quieter people
  • Everything still funnels through me because I own the outcome, so I can’t hand off the actual doing without feeling like I’ve let it go entirely
  • We share a roof and a calendar but it feels more like two people running parallel lives than one shared one
  • I give my team a sharp, accurate read on what’s going wrong and exactly how to fix it, and they nod and walk away

Practices that may help

  1. Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical
    Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method reframes planning around three questions: What do I want (Result), Why do I want it (Purpose), and What’s the most efficient path (Massive Action Plan). The "why before how" sequence is consistent with motivational research on purpose and implementation intentions. RPM is a practitioner framework rather than a formally studied protocol.
  2. Radical Openness: The RO-DBT Approach to Overcontrol and Loneliness
    Radical Openness is the central skill of Radically Open DBT (RO-DBT), a treatment developed by Thomas Lynch for people who suffer not from impulsivity but from overcontrol — excessive self-restraint, rigidity, and difficulty expressing emotions or receiving feedback. The core practice is developing genuine willingness to be influenced by new information and other people, rather than protecting existing beliefs and behavioral patterns.
  3. Collaborative Problem Solving (Ross Greene)
    Ross Greene’s Collaborative Problem Solving model holds that kids with explosive behavior lack the cognitive skills to handle frustration and inflexibility — not the motivation. The approach replaces punitive consequences with structured adult–child conversations that build lagging skills over time. Randomized trials in clinical settings show significant reductions in explosive behavior, though most real-world evidence is clinical and observational.
  4. Tony Robbins’ Core Practices
    Tony Robbins’ method centers on deliberately managing your internal state — through priming, physiology, language, and focus — so that better decisions and actions follow. The practices range from well-supported (gratitude, slow breathing, mental rehearsal) to mechanistically plausible but thinly studied (incantations).
  5. Mental Contrasting and WOOP
    Mental contrasting — Gabriele Oettingen’s technique of vividly imagining your desired future and then confronting it with the specific obstacles standing in the way — activates the motivational and planning systems simultaneously. When combined with implementation intentions (WOOP: Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan), multiple RCTs find improved goal achievement across health, academic, and professional domains — though effect sizes are moderate and the full WOOP sequence matters more than any single step.
  6. Use round-robin turns to equalize contribution
    Give everyone a timed, equal turn — it prevents a few voices from dominating and pulls quieter members into the space.
    Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
  7. WOOP: Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan
    WOOP — Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan — is Gabriele Oettingen’s science-based goal strategy: you picture the best outcome, then deliberately confront the inner obstacle in your way, and pair it with an if-then plan. Unlike pure positive thinking, WOOP combines mental contrasting with implementation intentions, and both halves have genuine support from randomized trials.
  8. Separate the doer (R) from the owner (A)
    The person who does the work is often not the person who owns the outcome — make this explicit.
    The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
  9. Practise including the other person in your self-concept
    Close relationships develop when you genuinely incorporate the other’s perspectives and resources into how you think — not just spend time with them.
    Self-Expansion Model: How Relationships Grow (and Stagnate) Us
  10. Raise awareness and build responsibility simultaneously
    Help the person see their situation more clearly while also connecting them to their ownership of it.
    The GROW Model: Coaching Conversations That Actually Move People

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