Executive Habit Builder

A director promoted three months ago from a senior individual contributor role is working with her coach on the transition into people management. She has identified three behaviors she wants to build: a weekly check-in ritual with each direct report, a preparation practice before difficult conversations, and a team meeting format that consistently covers the right content. She has not yet attempted to build any of them as habits — she is implementing them episodically, depending on whether she remembers. Her calendar does not protect time for any of them.

Use the tool's specificity requirement as the entry point. 'Most leadership habits fail at the same place: they're defin...