The Enlighten, Encourage & Enable Model
A powerful model of behavior change, based on strong theoretical models from leadership, health psychology, and behavioral medicine.
Coaching for Results
Coaches of all types are in the business of driving behavior change. In order to successfully initiate and maintain behavior change, people move through three specific stages we call Enlighten, Encourage and Enable. Each stage represents a milestone; if successful, clients transition from adopters to maintainers of new behaviors.
From Awareness to Sustained Change
Enlighten
Before anyone begins to change, they must first be aware of what they want to change. Clients become more aware of signature strengths and development areas. Feedback methods such as 360-degree assessments are helpful in this stage.
Encourage
Not all people who are more aware are equally motivated to change. Coaches can help using motivational interviewing techniques and skill building to facilitate clients' readiness to take action toward change.
Enable
For change to be sustained, clients need to track progress, reward success, and build support systems. Coaches help build relapse prevention plans and cultivate factors that support sustained change.
Change Is Not Linear
Successful behavioral change is often NOT linear but can be progressive, regressive, or even static. Clients may pass back and forth through each of the three stages due to contributing elements including coach factors, client factors, and environmental factors.
The major contributing elements — along with actions to take and tools to use in each of the three stages — are presented in great detail in Clueless.
Based on Strong Research
Enlighten, Encourage and Enable has been developed and perfected by Dr. Ken Nowack in over 20 years of work with thousands of leaders and soon-to-be leaders.
We think you will find this model useful, intuitive, and valuable as you work with your clients along each critical stage from initial readiness to change to the unconscious competence of the most effective performers in any field.
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