Coaching practices for I Start Each Coaching Conversation From Scratch and Never Circle Back to What the Person Said They'd Do Last Time So the Commitments Quietly Stop Meaning Anything and They Learn I Won't Actually Follow Up

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• I start each coaching conversation from scratch and never circle back to what the person said they’d do last time
• I start every commitment on fire and dead serious, and then a few weeks in I notice the drive has quietly drained away without me even clocking it
• We have a great talk and the person leaves with "I’ll think about it," and within a day or two it’s evaporated
• We have the hard talk, they say "I’ll do better," I feel relieved it’s over
• We have a good talk, everyone leaves nodding and feeling better

Practices that may help

1. Close the GROW loop with session review
   At the start of the next session, review what was committed and what actually happened before setting a new goal.
   The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical
2. Schedule commitment renewal to prevent drift
   Recommit explicitly every few weeks — the motivation that drove the original contract fades faster than the contract itself.
   Commitment Contracts, Made Practical
3. Secure Will — convert the best option into a specific commitment
   Close the conversation with a specific, self-declared commitment to a concrete next action.
   The GROW Model: Coaching Conversations That Actually Move People
4. Close with a specific, confirmed, next-step commitment
   An accountability conversation that ends without a specific new commitment has not resolved anything.
   Crucial Accountability: Holding People to Commitments That Matter
5. Move to action
   Close the conversation by deciding how decisions get made, then assigning who does what by when.
   Crucial Conversations, Made Practical
6. Ask "What do you want?"
   People often know what they want but haven’t said it — asking directly surfaces it and shifts from complaint to intention.
   The Coaching Habit: Seven Questions to Be More Coach-Like
7. Obstacle anticipation before close
   Before ending, ask "what could get in the way?" and pre-plan the response.
   The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical
8. Follow through on stated consequences — or don’t state them
   Consequences you don’t enforce teach that commitments are optional.
   Crucial Accountability: Holding People to Commitments That Matter
9. Set the Goal — establish what the conversation is for
   Begin every coaching conversation by clarifying what the person wants to achieve in this session.
   The GROW Model: Coaching Conversations That Actually Move People
10. Run a weekly accountability session
    Hold a short weekly meeting — just 20 minutes — where each person reports on last week’s commitments and makes new ones.
    The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX)

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