Coaching practices for Prospect Theory Communication

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

• I bring my careful facts and figures to this big-picture, high-energy person and watch their eyes glaze over
• 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
• I launch into things from inside my own head
• I keep avoiding this even though I’m capable of it and I do care, and I can’t explain why
• I keep making what feels to me like an obviously compelling case and watching it bounce right off this person

Practices that may help

1. Adapt to Expressives: lead with energy, vision, and big picture
   With high-assertiveness, high-responsiveness people, match their enthusiasm and connect to the larger story.
   Social Style Matrix: Adapting to How People Communicate
2. 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)
3. Adjust for your egocentric starting point
   Actively consider how your message looks from a perspective that does not share your context.
   Closeness-Communication Bias
4. Socialise your values and expectations to reduce hidden motivation barriers
   Others’s expectations and transmitted values shape whether you believe you belong in a domain — making implicit messages explicit clears hidden motivation blocks.
   Expectancy-Value Theory: Why You Try (or Don’t)
5. Expectancy-Value Theory: Why You Try (or Don’t)
   Jacquelynne Eccles’s expectancy-value theory proposes that motivation to pursue a task is jointly determined by two factors: expectancy (your belief that you can succeed) and value (how much you care about success). Both are required — high value with low expectancy produces anxiety and avoidance; high expectancy with low value produces competent indifference. The theory has a substantial empirical base primarily in academic achievement contexts, with reasonable generalisation to broader life domains.
6. Communicate across value-system differences
   Translate your message into the motivational language of the person you’re trying to reach.
   Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical
7. Diagnose which route your audience is on before you speak
   Check motivation and capacity before choosing how to frame your message.
   Elaboration Likelihood Model, Made Practical
8. Match your message frame to the audience’s motivation type
   Promotion-focused audiences respond to gains; prevention-focused ones respond to avoiding losses.
   Elaboration Likelihood Model, Made Practical
9. Communicate effectively with Influence-style people
   Connect personally first, let enthusiasm breathe, and make the vision clear before the detail.
   DISC Behavioral Styles
10. Channel attention to the relevant concept before the ask
    Briefly focus the audience on a concept that makes your core message naturally follow.
    Pre-Suasion, Made Practical

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