When individual and group change collide

Yeah.

Honestly, I could have had another two days researching this.

There is so much out there.

And it is interesting.

And I...

Can't wait to do the comparison of individual versus group change to see if there's overlap, if there are different techniques.

I think it's going to be really fascinating.

A lot of the research that I read or the theories that I was reading about.

aren't necessarily set in organisational settings.

So I'm kind of hoping that we can, you can help me process it out loud in real time and make the kind of comparisons about how would that translate into an organisation environment.

Because a lot of studies around individual change seem to be health related.

So there's just so much research on how to help people make healthy choices, whether it's giving up smoking or you know, improving their diet or taking more exercise, whatever, that tends to be the setting of a lot of this research.

But nevertheless, habits are habits and behaviour is behaviour.

And so I believe there will be parallels in the work environment.

So one of the papers that I read was by Angela Duckworth and James Gross.

And again, they They were making parallels between kind of healthy choices and work, but they talked about a process model of behaviour change with four steps, situation, attention, appraisal and response.

Now, the context that they gave was you arrive at work, you arrive in an office lobby and There's a lift and there are stairs.

And, you know, normally we default to the lift.

If you're on the sixth floor, you're probably going to take the lift.

How do we change behaviour to encourage people to make the healthy choice of climbing the stairs? So the situation is you're in the office lobby.

Your attention then is what do you notice? What do you focus on? So do you look to the stairs or look to the elevator? And obviously there are environmental things that can be done to help draw attention to one of those.

You then go through a process of appraisal.

So how do you kind of interpret those two options? So which you want to take and the reasons for.

And there's other research I've read about the conflicting goals.

So I want to arrive at my desk and not be sweaty from having climbed six stairs.