The process of identifying and integrating new and resilient behaviours in business can lead to a strong increase in peformance for individuals and teams.
By challenging crooked thoughts and beliefs and developing new, helpful and motivating ways of thinking, Behavioural Change can take place in a consistent and reproducible way.
Through defined psychological models of change, that plan, prepare for, create and maintain change, people are able to achieve deep and lasting changes in their behaviours, achieve greater engagement in their work and improved performance & increased contribution.
Cognitive-Behavioural Change Model
As a development on the Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Model, Cognitive-Behavioural Coaching takes the premise that our behaviours are not a response to other people or situations but to the way we think about them.
Using the well-established ABCDE model of Cognitive-Behavioural Change in CBT, this approach is brief, goal-orientated and focussed on the present. It is well received in business environments as it provides a basis to develop action plans for behavioural change.
This approach shows that a person’s actions (C) are mediated not by others (A) but by their unresourceful beliefs (B) or ‘crooked’ thoughts, these thoughts are challenged through a technique called disputation (D) new thoughts found and new behaviours engaged (E). Limiting Beliefs in any context, hinder performance.
The client is encouraged to learn the CB Model and to use it for their current ‘action plans’ and also as a framework for achieving behavioural change for problem solving in the future.
Deep and lasting Behavioural Change evidence shows that it takes on average 66 days for a new behaviour to become a lasting habit. This Cognitive-Behavioural approach to coaching aims to create & achieve deep and durable change by guiding the client through this process.
Transactional Analysis Change Model
Following on from the Transactional Analysis (TA) Therapy Model, a TA Coaching Model works on the premise that business relationships can be analysed as the communication dynamic between people, through a parent, adult & child context.
The TA Model has been used for many years in areas such as education and in organisations, to change behaviours through improvements in communication.
TA Coaching gives an understanding of how one’s ‘life script’ is established at a very early age and that , without changes, people continue to repeat those behaviours. The Model highlights the reasons why communications (transactions) in business can follow certain patterns, how they may develop into ‘unconscious’ games and how people repeat these patterns, often negatively, to deal with their emotions and to elicit behaviours they want from others.
An understanding of Parent (P), Adult (A) & Child (C) TA Model helps the client to understand which transactions are ‘balanced’ and helpful and which are ‘imbalanced’ and unhelpful or even destructive.
The TA Model provides a framework for Change by encouraging the client to be aware from what position they communicate, and the way that they respond and behave to the communication of others.