🌿🧭🌳 OD76: 🗺 Maps: Conditions for Behavior Change
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🗺 Maps: Conditions for Behavior Change
After noticing that the most viewed video in the Facets of Change playlist on the For Better Orgs Youtube channel is the one about Behavior Change, we’ve created a collection of visual maps that you might use:
for yourself, your team, your users, your clients or your other stakeholders;
when preparing an intervention, a project or to develop a habit; when situations are challenging during the endeavor; or when maintaining newly adopted behaviors.
You can get specific maps for each of the 10 Conditions for Behavior Change (framework created by SparkWave), or you can get the mega map containing all of them.
For practical use, each map is a high-resolution PDF that can be easily understood and explored based on what you need from it: inspiration, validation or guidance.
Deciding to Change
Considering the behavior; 20 Behavior change strategies, 13 Cognitive biases & fallacies; use the “newsletter” code to get it free - as a sample;
Desiring to engage in the behavior; 147! strategies, 102! biases & fallacies;
Intending to engage in the behavior; 22 strategies, 12 biases & fallacies;
Acting to Change
Remembering to perform each action; 11 strategies, 9 biases & fallacies;
Believing that attempting each action will help achieve a goal; 9 strategies, 8 biases & fallacies;
Choosing to perform each action instead of other available actions; 64 strategies, 5 biases & fallacies;
Knowing to perform each action; 19 strategies, 2 biases & fallacies;
Having the needed resources and permission to perform each action; 9 strategies, 5 biases & fallacies;
Embodying the skills and traits needed to perform each action; 16 strategies;
Maintaining what Changed
Maintaining internal attributes and external conditions required to perform future needed actions; 67 strategies, 16 biases & fallacies;
Mega Map
All the 10 Conditions for Change; 384 strategies, 172 biases & fallacies
Facets of Change Learning Series
We were truly surprised by the positive reactions to this new high-intensity learning camp with 6 hands-on workshops about Change. After announcing the series in the OD75 edition, now there are only 2 seats left.
See more details on the dedicated page (dates, format, topics) or sign up for the upcoming preview webinar on Dec 8th, 4pm CET.
Strategy & Organization Goodies
Roger Martin: Stop Letting OKRs Masquerade as Strategy
“OKRs have become an implicit substitute for strategy. That is a problem. OKRs must be a complement to strategy, not a substitute for strategy, as I have similarly argued previously about planning. It is problematic for OKRs to masquerade as strategy.”
Indeed, more generally: planning and setting objectives (and the various ways to do these things) are not equivalent to developing a strategy. Still lots of education needed in this area.Jane Hart: Top 300 Tools for Learning 2021. If you’re curious to discover new apps, tools and platforms that you can use for most types of knowledge work, this is the list.
SystemsWiki: Short, insightful piece about Models and Methods.
“(…) all the models and methods were just about understanding relationships and their implications. (…) each approach was simply an endeavor to understand the relevant relationships and their implications.”
andiron: Something that might be useful for your OD work: the Polarity Navigator, a sensemaking tool created by Brian Emerson & Kelly Lewis.
Sense & Change Practical Guides
Guide to Team Chemistry
Evolve your team through better conversations about the team.
Guide to Dynamic Stakeholder Mapping
Understand who’s around your project, their connections and predispositions.
Guide to Information Overload
Improve your information diet and evolve your information flows.
Trends Map 2021/22
Mega collection of almost 800 trends, synthesized on a map that you can work on.
In the unlikely case that you’re not happy with the quality of the guides, we’re offering full refunds - no questions asked.
This newsletter is curated by Raluca and Bülent Duagi,
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