A great mechanism to make an action plan to make a behavior change. At the end of a reflection process, coaching session, meeting, you can write down what you will start doing, what you will stop doing, and what you will continue doing.

For example, I read a recent article on making diversity more than a business case and here are my Start Stop Continue in follow up:

Start: Clarifying and sharing my own personal motivation to work on equality initiatives.

Stop: Accepting the business case for diversity as enough motivation to make change occur.

Continue: Encouraging people in coaching and other situations to create person vision statements and emphasize the importance of this.

It works because it’s easy to remember and gets to the heart of change, behavior and rhythms.

Don’t forget: More like jazz. Less like classical.