How to Change Behaviour at Work

We're going to be exploring how to change behaviour at work. This is based on a brilliant HBR article that was written recently by one of our friends, James Elfer, and what they talk through is this scientific model of behaviour change and they test usually relatively small interventions, but then they really rigorously figure out what works. and what doesn't. So they've kind of got this four-step model. We're going to apply it at a smaller scale, as in what could you do within the team that you're in, or even perhaps just thinking about it for yourself.

Simplicity as a behaviour. You know, if if a team is defaulting to meetings, long emails, too many messages, could you use this to think on like how could we behave more simply? Please at work. Would that work? No.

What we want to do is like reduce the amount of messages. We've kind of got a hypothesis that I guess that frees up headspace and quality work. So I think you almost have to be more targeted in like the behaviour, which will obviously hopefully like lead on to kind of bigger things. Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah. And you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast.

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