and you’re trying to fix them all or they all seem equally
important; or when the problem is someone else’s problem (or just
someone else); or when you spend no time on focusing on what the
challenge truly is and move right to actions.
I WILL...
Describe your new habit.
I’m pretty sure it will be, “Ask ‘What’s the real challenge here for
you?’”
WATCH IT WORK
Watch the short videos at TheCoachingHabit.com/videos to
deepen your learning and help turn insight into action.
HOW TO HELP YOUR TEAM FIND FOCUS You’ll find a number of questions
and tools you can use to help your team find the focus they need to
do more Great Work.FROM THE BOX OF CRAYONS
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When we set our researcher, Lindsay, onto the science behind this
question, she came up with any number of studies on the value of
helping people narrow their focus. You may remember me
mentioning Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice in a previous
chapter, and there are multiple studies that show how limiting
choices reduces overwhelm and polychronicity, a fancy word for