Move your watch

Purpose

To look at how easy, or otherwise , it is to implement change.

Resources

This will take 10 “15 minutes. No equipment is required, other than the coachee s own watch.

Notes to the coach

This is a very quick activity that can illustrate to the coachee how uncomfortable it may be to make changes to his or her behaviour. It helps initiate a conversation about how to reduce the impact of change and how we can t always expect changes to our behaviour to feel right straight away.

Instructions

Ask the coachee to move his or her watch to the other wrist at the beginning of the meeting. After 10 minutes ask the coachee what time it is. Most coachees will automatically look at the wrist where their watch normally is. Later on, ask them how it feels to have the watch on the ˜wrong arm “ this opens up a discussion about change and how it feels to make even a small change. You may find that your coachee moved the watch back after being asked the time, or has fiddled with it, showing some discomfort. These are all good points for discussion.