Ttm Model Stages: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Ttm Model Stages, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

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Knowing your stage tells you which next step fits. Pick the one closest to where you are with this change.

Which stage are you in with this change?

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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. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Iterate — treat the stages as a loop, not a line
    Cycle back to earlier stages as testing reveals you framed the wrong problem.
    Design Thinking, Step by Step
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Combine TIPP components into a crisis sequence
    For very high arousal, run TIPP as a full sequence — temperature first, then exercise, then breathing, then relaxation.
    TIPP: DBT’s Crisis Skill for Rapidly Lowering Emotional Intensity

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