Coaching practices for Six Sources of Influence Vitalsmarts

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  • The people I’m around most all live the opposite of what I’m trying to become
  • We’re drowning in dashboards and reports and I still can’t tell whether we’re actually healthy until the lagging results land too late to fix
  • I’m right on the edge of trying this and I just need someone whose judgment I trust to look at what I’ve actually done and tell me, with reasons, that I’m ready
  • I’ve got a list of my strengths but it reads like a flat personality quiz
  • If you ask me what I value I’ll say family, health, honesty, growth

Practices that may help

  1. Cialdini’s Principles of Influence
    Robert Cialdini identified six near-universal levers of persuasion — reciprocity, commitment and consistency, social proof, authority, liking, and scarcity — that bias people toward saying yes. They’re drawn from decades of social-psychology research and field studies; the principles are well established even though individual effect sizes vary by context.
  2. Surround yourself with people whose behaviors align with your health goals
    Obesity, smoking, and exercise habits are socially contagious — the people around you are your health environment.
    Blue Zone Principles: The Power 9 Longevity Practices
  3. Identify and track your critical numbers
    Find the two or three metrics that, if managed well, predict overall health — and make them visible to everyone.
    The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
  4. Use credible verbal persuasion to raise efficacy in the short term
    Specific, credible encouragement from a trusted source can temporarily raise self-efficacy — but must be followed by performance to stick.
    Social Cognitive Theory
  5. Connect individual strengths to the broader virtues they serve
    Understand which of the six VIA virtues your signature strengths express, and what that reveals about your character.
    VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
  6. The Energy Audit
    Loehr and Schwartz argue that high performance is fundamentally an energy management problem, not a time management problem: you have four energy reservoirs — physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual — and sustained performance requires both spending and renewing each. The framework is a compelling clinical synthesis; direct RCT evidence for the four-quadrant model itself is limited.
  7. The forced-rank sort
    Write your top 20 candidate values on cards, then sort them ruthlessly until you have a ranked top five.
    Values Card Sort
  8. Lead from the influencing domain — take charge, speak up, make sure others are heard
    People strong in influencing sell the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization.
    Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
  9. Identify your center of gravity on the spiral
    Find the value system that currently organizes most of your daily behavior and motivation.
    Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical
  10. Social proof
    People look to what similar others are doing to decide what’s correct, especially under uncertainty.
    Cialdini’s Principles of Influence

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