Coaching practices for Yes No Coaching Habit
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- I keep saying yes to every exciting new thing because in the moment it just feels like more good, and then I look up overcommitted and stretched thin
- The conversation keeps circling the same complaint without ever landing anywhere, and it slowly dawns on me that the person venting to me has never once said what they actually want to come out of this
- When I coach people, almost everything out of my mouth is about their body
- I only ever coach in the rare formal sit-down and then default to firing off answers in every quick hallway exchange
- I start each coaching conversation from scratch and never circle back to what the person said they’d do last time
Practices that may help
- The Coaching Habit: Seven Questions to Be More Coach-Like
Michael Bungay Stanier’s seven questions — from "What’s on your mind?" through "What was most useful for you?" — are a practical system for coaching conversations that takes less than a minute to learn and a career to master. The framework is practitioner-derived from behavioral coaching practice; its mechanisms are grounded in autonomy support, self-determination, and the generation effect. The questions work because they shift the cognitive labor back to the person who owns the problem. - Ask "If you’re saying yes to this, what are you saying no to?"
Every yes is a yes-at-the-expense-of-something — making the trade-off explicit is the most useful thing a coach can do.
The Coaching Habit: Seven Questions to Be More Coach-Like - 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 - Rewrite internal-focus coaching cues as external-focus equivalents
Audit your coaching language and convert body-focused instructions to effect-focused ones.
External Focus of Attention, Made Practical - Use GROW in brief leadership conversations, not just formal coaching sessions
Apply GROW structure to 5-minute hallway conversations and 1-on-1 check-ins — not only to hour-long coaching sessions.
The GROW Model: Coaching Conversations That Actually Move People - 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 - Build a craving deliberately to cement a new habit
Create an anticipatory craving for the reward of a new behavior before the reward arrives.
The Habit Loop, Made Practical - Map the cue-routine-reward loop
Break a habit into its three parts before you try to change anything.
The Power of Habit, Made Practical - Identify your cue
Pin down the exact trigger that fires the habit before you can do anything about the habit.
The Habit Loop, Made Practical - Obstacle anticipation before close
Before ending, ask "what could get in the way?" and pre-plan the response.
The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical
Related concerns
- And What Else Coaching Habit
Michael Bungay Stanier’s seven questions — from "What’s on your mind?" through "What was most useful for you?" — are a practical system for coaching conversations that takes less than a minute to learn and a career to master. The framework is practitioner-derived from behavioral coaching practice; its mechanisms are grounded in autonomy support, self-determination, and the generation effect. The questions work because they shift the cognitive labor back to the person who owns the problem.
- Coaching Habit Challenge Question
Michael Bungay Stanier’s seven questions — from "What’s on your mind?" through "What was most useful for you?" — are a practical system for coaching conversations that takes less than a minute to learn and a career to master. The framework is practitioner-derived from behavioral coaching practice; its mechanisms are grounded in autonomy support, self-determination, and the generation effect. The questions work because they shift the cognitive labor back to the person who owns the problem.
- Goal Orientation Coaching Habit
Establish exactly what the person wants to achieve — not the presenting topic, but the specific, owned outcome.
Clarify the Goal with precision
- Awl Question Coaching Habit
The first answer is rarely the most important one — "And what else?" pulls out the one that actually matters.
Ask "And what else?"
- Coaching Habit Closing Question
The closing question turns the conversation into a learning that sticks — and teaches you what is actually valuable.
Close with "What was most useful for you?"
- Coaching Habit Five Question
Michael Bungay Stanier’s seven questions — from "What’s on your mind?" through "What was most useful for you?" — are a practical system for coaching conversations that takes less than a minute to learn and a career to master. The framework is practitioner-derived from behavioral coaching practice; its mechanisms are grounded in autonomy support, self-determination, and the generation effect. The questions work because they shift the cognitive labor back to the person who owns the problem.
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