Coaching practices for Observational Learning Behavior

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

• Part of me is convinced someone like me
• I watch someone who’s genuinely good at this glance at the same thing I’m staring at and instantly catch something I can’t see at all
• I keep asking the person who’s great at this to explain how they do it, and their answers never quite capture it
• All day my attention goes straight to what went wrong
• Noting has become second nature and now I’m curious about the one doing the noticing itself

Practices that may help

1. Learn from observing others who are similar to you
   Watch people like you succeed at the behavior — their success provides evidence that you can too.
   Social Cognitive Theory
2. Expert-comparison study
   Watch or listen to an expert perform and articulate what they are attending to that you are not.
   Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind
3. Apprentice yourself to observe tacit knowledge in action
   Spend extended time watching an expert perform — close observation transfers more than their verbal explanations.
   Tacit Knowledge: The Skill You Can’t Fully Explain
4. The Formula First-Session Task and Between-Session Noticing
   Assign between-session observation tasks that direct attention toward what’s already working.
   Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building On What Works
5. Advanced noting — noting the act of noting itself
   Turn attention to the process of noting itself, observing who is doing the labeling and whether the "noter" is also a mental event.
   Noting Practice, Made Practical
6. Learning through exemplar study
   Study the conduct of a person you consider exemplary and identify one specific behaviour you can emulate.
   Confucian Self-Cultivation: The Mencius Approach
7. Shape complex behaviors through successive approximations
   Reinforce progressively closer approximations to the target behavior rather than waiting for the full behavior to appear.
   Operant Conditioning and Schedules of Reinforcement
8. Plan a concrete experiment to test your new principle
   Close the loop by deciding specifically how you will apply the extracted lesson next time.
   Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice
9. Celebrate immediately after each behavior with a felt sense of success
   Immediate positive emotion after a behavior is the mechanism by which habits are wired in — celebrate every repetition.
   The Fogg Behavior Model, Made Practical
10. Build precise awareness of when and how the habit occurs
    You can’t interrupt what you can’t detect — map the habit sequence in granular detail.
    Habit Reversal Training, Made Practical

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