Y1. Protect Your Sleep – Coach and Practice
This behaviour develops a leader’s ability to protect rest as a leadership priority, recognising that energy, focus, and emotional control depend on recovery.
Behaviour focus
Helping leaders build sustainable routines that maintain performance and well-being.
Purpose
To improve decision-making, composure, and clarity by treating sleep as a leadership resource rather than a luxury.
| Action Steps | Key Questions | Practice |
| Track current patterns. | What does your average week of sleep really look like? | Ask the leader to log bedtime, wake time, and sleep quality for 7 days, then discuss patterns and triggers. |
| Identify barriers. | What most often interrupts or shortens your rest? | Practise analysing the previous week to identify and remove one key disruptor, such as late-night work or caffeine. |
| Establish a cut-off point. | When will you stop working each day? | Ask the leader to set and rehearse a clear end-of-day boundary, including a one-hour wind-down routine. |
| Build and protect a routine. | What habits help you switch off effectively? | Practise designing a short nightly routine and committing to it for one whole week. |