People BYOBC’s Week 3 expands the focus beyond just you and your inner experience to the people around you. This week takes you on a deep dive into the power of peers: the good, the bad, and the ugly....Read more

Often, this is where the rubber meets the road. It reveals the benefits of the inner work you did in the previous two weeks. This will challenge and stretch you. It also will give you practical, concrete skills. Instead of agonizing about how to survive the interpersonal issues and conflicts that so often frustrate people on the job, you’ll gain real-life skills that make these stormy seas a lot calmer.

During this week, you’ll:

• Boost your ability to discern friends from foes
• Analyze strategies the most productive people use to set expectations and maintain healthy boundaries
• Practice using scripts proven to help you manage your relationships at work that are based on mutual respect, trust, and cooperation
• Incorporate habits for effective emotional regulation into your daily routines so you stay grounded and in control
• Use a 6-part science-based model to guide your progress in boosting your self-leadership skills in the area of social connections

BYOBC’s Week 4 enlarges the world beyond you, your inner self, and the people around you. This week will help you manage the challenges and capitalize on the opportunities your environment offers you. You will gain a new perspective on how to control and shape your personal space and the space around you to support the work you want to do....Read more

This week also opens a new door for you: It’s the door to creativity and imagination. No matter what job sector you’re in, job performance, productivity, and personal satisfaction all increase when you harness the power of creativity and imagination.

During this week, you’ll:

• Identify and evaluate the unique environmental factors available to you
• Construct a reliable, imagined environmental resource that you can use to both enhance you when you’re at your best or help you manage when you’re facing difficult challenges
• Create environmental force functions that help you nail desired habits and avoid bad habits
• Apply reward and punishment in a way that maximizes motivation and reduces procrastination
• Use a 6-part science-based model to guide your progress in boosting your self-leadership skills in the area of managing the external, environmental factors around you

Week 5 is the final week of your BYOBC journey. It will boost your self-leadership by adding key tools to your toolkit. These tools will help you assess how you’re doing, identify exactly where you’re at in your journey, choose appropriate tasks and goals matched to where you’re at in the journey, and give you science-based methods to avoid setbacks and recover from the setbacks, bumps in the road, or relapses that are part of the normal change process....Read more

This week will deepen your understanding of the change process and the continuum along which change happens. It will help you match where you’re at on the continuum with the exact strategy you need to move forward in the self-change process.

Whether it’s merely entertaining the idea of change, weighing the costs and benefits, preparing and planning to do something, taking concrete steps to get going, or keep up the good stuff you’ve started, this week is often a huge “aha” for a lot of people.

The tools you’ll use in this final week bring all the ideas from the previous weeks together into a unified whole. You’ll recognize how what you’ve been working on in one area of your life also applies to other areas, too. Common problems such as procrastination, feeling stressed and overwhelmed, or struggling with difficult people at work can shrink or totally resolve when approached using the tools in this week’s session.

During this week, you’ll:

• Practice using a quantitative assessment method that amplifies your sense of strength and personal competence
• Plot your journey from the past to illuminate the way forward so you can conquer the unique challenges and tasks required to go from one stage in the journey to the next
• Examine setbacks, failures, and relapse through a solution-focused lens so you turn failures into insight that will get you closer to your goals the next time
• Examine your past history in a way that amplifies your innate strengths, skills, and resources
• Use a 6-part science-based model to guide your progress in boosting your self-leadership skills using quantitative and qualitative methods to chart and your course

Practice Pod Check-In
Check-in and re-tune after 45 days is your opportunity for more expert feedback and coaching that layers on more understanding and insights that can be turned into effective action

No truly transformative skill can be learned overnight. Mastery is not achieved overnight....Read more

It takes deliberate practice: repeating the same thing multiple times, seeing it from different angles, applying it in different contexts, experimenting with the tiny details of how it works so you know it inside-out, and getting expert feedback as you grow in competence.

Which is why Be Your Own Best Coach offers you a Premier Edition.

As a member of the small Premier Version group, you’ll get:

1. Five small group coaching sessions each week where we work through specific questions or problems you’re facing, and explore topics beyond just the core curriculum

2. Do deeper dives into specific aspects of self-leadership (building a bridge from dreams to goals, using specific linguistic techniques to manage interpersonal challenges, developing grit, cultivating self-awareness, boosting emotional self-regulation, and managing personal resources of time, attention, and energy)

3. FLOW: HOW TO CREATE THE OPTIMAL STATE FOR CREATIVITY, LEARNING, AND PRODUCTIVITY (WORKSHOP) Designing for Flow workshop: Unlock the science of human performance to create flow, the optimal state of consciousness, where you feel your best and perform your best. Learn the 6 key strategies to consciously harness your nervous system and efficiently design your behaviors so you can excel in the new normal.
4. Tiny Habits(r) Training with a 5-day 1:1 personalized coaching program where you learn Stanford professor BJ Fogg’s revolutionary TIny Habits method that makes creating habits fun and easy
5. Q&A library: over 20 easy-and-quick-to-digest clips of answers to common questions from past cohorts