Coaching practices for Processes of Change Ttm

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

  • I keep reaching for tracking apps and tidy action plans before I’ve done any of the inner work, and they never stick
  • My motivation for this keeps fading because it’s all external
  • The people I lean on give me the wrong kind of help at the wrong time
  • I’ve held this change for a while and feel good about it overall, but there are specific moments
  • We had a reorg — lost a key person, changed direction — and suddenly the team that used to hum is fighting and second-guessing again, and I’m treating it like they broke instead of seeing the ground shifted under them.

Practices that may help

  1. The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Made Practical
    The Transtheoretical Model (TTM), developed by Prochaska and DiClemente, proposes that behavior change moves through five stages — precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance — and that strategies effective in one stage often backfire in another. The staging framework is well-validated; the prescriptive matching of "stage-tailored" interventions shows promising but mixed results in trials.
  2. Apply the experiential processes early, behavioral ones later
    Use consciousness-raising and emotional arousal early; counter-conditioning and stimulus control after you commit.
    The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Made Practical
  3. Practice self-reevaluation to build a new self-image
    Imagine how you will think and feel about yourself once you have changed — and how you’ll feel if you don’t.
    The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Made Practical
  4. Enlist a helping relationship appropriate to your stage
    The kind of support that helps in preparation (accountability) is different from what helps in contemplation (empathy).
    The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Made Practical
  5. Track your temptation-to-confidence ratio
    Confidence in your ability to resist temptation must outpace the pull of the old behavior.
    The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Made Practical
  6. Recognize and recover from stage regression
    A team that was Performing can drop back to Storming — and the recovery move is different from the original ascent.
    Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
  7. Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
    Bruce Tuckman’s model describes four stages every team moves through — Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing — before optionally Adjourning. The stages are a useful diagnostic map for leaders: friction in a new team is usually normal Storming, not a personnel problem.
  8. Identify your current stage before choosing a strategy
    Diagnose where you actually are in the change cycle before deciding what to do.
    The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Made Practical
  9. How growth is supported (not forced)
    Growth, when it comes, is supported by safety, time, and being accompanied — never by pressure.
    Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical
  10. Diagnose which stage your team is in
    Name the stage you’re in before you pick a leadership response.
    Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development

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