The Importance of Understanding the Roadblocks

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Timothy Stanley: There's no one silver bullet. He says self-help literature is mostly goorhism, not much science out there. And so unless we understand the roadblocks, we're not going to be very good at applying the right tools, he says. The most useful advice I can give an individual or an organization that wants to create behavior change is to first try to figure out what are the obstacles in this particular context because they differ,. said Stanley.

We’re doing things a little differently this week. Instead of discussing Katy Milkman’s research at the end of our interview (Episode 232), we’ve decided to make our Grooving Session a separate episode. We suggest you listen to Katy’s interview first in the previous episode, and then join us here where we discuss how Katy's work will help you find your behavior-changing groove!

In this Grooving Session we will learn to:

Look for the obstacles that are preventing you from adopting new behaviors.
Use the appropriate change technique based on the obstacles that are preventing you from changing.
Give junior people a chance to lead, expect the best, and don’t punish them for failure.
Work on becoming a Flexible Fernando so you don’t give in to the What-The-Hell Effect.

Links

Katy Milkman, How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be https://amzn.to/3wTSxH7

Kurt Lewin Behavior https://www.change-management-coach.com/kurt_lewin.html

Force Analysis https://creately.com/blog/business/force-field-analysis/