An Improv Mindset in the Workspace

I am a Tiny Habits® Certified Coach, and I am a Behavior Designer. I work with individuals and organizations. I am trained to help people change behaviors and easily develop habits. Inspired by servant leadership, I am a coach at the intersection of Behavior Design and Improvisation.

Learn about my January 2018 endeavor over here – Meet | A Tiny Habits® Certified Coach – as I am the featured Certified Coach to support and coach folks during their 5-days of learning and practicing Dr. BJ Fogg’s 5-Day Tiny Habits® program.

I am a Tiny Habits Specialty Coach for An Improv Mindset in the Workspace. I serve the following areas of the workspace  –

• EH&S – Building Environmental Health & Safety Habits

• Professional Development – Self-Directed 

• Inclusion – Diversity, Culture, and Bias Recontextualized

• Servant Leadership – On Practicing Servant Leadership

I also create custom habit-based practices for framing and reframing of performance appraisal feedback and for practicing and sustaining what one has learned from organizational training programs.

Learn more about my habit coaching. Let me hear from you over here.

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“Designing for behavior change is systematic.
It’s not guesswork.”
– BJ Fogg

This applies to the workspace.

I am trained by BJ Fogg.

My first week of Tiny Habits was in January 2012. In June 2012, I completed Fogg’s Behavior Design Boot Camp. In November 2013, I became a Certified Coach, trained by BJ Fogg and Linda Fogg-Phillips, and I will be part of the Tiny Habits Academy.

Three steps are involved in the practice of changing or shifting behaviors when engaging BJ Fogg’s Fogg Method –

Step 1: Get specific
Step 2: Make it easy
Step 3: Trigger the behavior

As trained by Fogg, I am a Behavior Designer. I understand how to apply this method for behavior change.

Choose to be self-aware with an improv mindset.

Whether it is through sound or silence, movement or stillness, IMPROV involves interacting with one’s environment. By doing so, one has an effect on and is affected by the environment shared with others. Part of one’s self-awareness also involves understanding one’s actions and reactions to others such as their language, emotions, behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs.

Choose to be you in your workspace with an improv mindset.

Be the person you are – as a member of your family, school, faith, work, town, and country. Being you involves being present and self-aware. As an improvisor who creates a character, IMPROV involves playing a truthful character with a point of view and complementary behaviors that can interact in any environment. Truthful characters are often those an improvisor draws upon from personal experience. In the workspace, interacting with co-workers, customers, and communities is no different. As an employee, one’s capabilities and performance evaluation is often based on a combination of such things as one’s knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors – all which are formed by personal experience. Applying improv can get access to one’s ability to be the person that one wants to be in the workspace and in life.

I’ve always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.
– Amy Poehler