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Gary D Messner, United States
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Behavioral Change Motivators
Attempting to change behavior of a person based solely on information will not work. Many doctors try and fail to get their patients to make life-style changes (heart attack as example) solely on the facts and probability of death.
The unmotivated patient dies of avoidable disease related to life-style choices.
Alternatively, a doctor could stress and focus on positive alternatives to improve health and life expectancy, gaining the interest and cooperation of the patient.
Showing the patient the path to success versus focusing on the consequences will have a higher probability of behavioral change that lasts.
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Steven Loh
China
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Pain is a Major Change Motivator One of the greatest motivators of change that normally result in mass revolution is pain caused by scarcity. Whether the scarcity of food, (a hungry man is an angry man), a scarcity of freedom (where man are created for) and a scarcity of knowledge (dryness of the soul).
The course of history show that it is hard to effect change when people are living in peace, where a status quo has set in.
Basically, change must start with a real heartfelt need of moving away from the current situation. The heart of the matter is the matter of the heart.
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Eddy Tukamushaba, Uganda
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Uncertainty is also a Motivator for Changing Behavior I seem to agree with Steven Loh. The argument he advances is right now sweeping across most African countries and currently in my own country.
When people are faced with uncertainity, they tend to think in terms of how they can change the situation. Necessity is the mother of all innovations.
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Teo Kok Jaan
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Multiple Motivators May be Needed I agree with the argument by Eddy and Steven. However, most of the time, changing or revolution is subject to the external environment factors such as culture. Then people require a lot of issues, causes or motivations before they take the step to change their behavior.
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Mahajan s n, India
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Changing Attitude is Hard Generally the common person does not change immediately, due to his cultural background, social binding/pressure and customs.
If they get a wise & honest leader people can be changed.
But on the other hand, this change may be only at the surface. We can not assure if / when their original attitude will come back.
For example, religion conversion. People may get converted, but they never forget their original attitude.
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Maria Dioneda, Philippines
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Education is a Change Motivator I would like to add the importance of education in changing people's minds and behavior. Education allows us as human beings to go through a socialization process, cultural moulding and development of our world views. Education is a lifetime process. I am sure all cultures have its positive values that need to be reinforced.
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Bantwal Prabhu
Teacher, India
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3 Change Motivators Change motivation depends and works on three basic inputs:
- Genetics,
- Environment, and
- Education.
Today education seems to have the highest impact on the change motivator and hence poor countries where change is difficult should concentrate more on education to bring out reforms to improve the quality of life in the future.
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franco scolari
Manager, Italy
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Positive Thinking Generates Positive Outcomes If a hungry man is an angry man it is also true that a man is lucky when he thinks to have luck! To pay attention to positive facts of the life, big or small generates trust, positive attitude more luck. From my personal experience this is also applicable to personal health and aging.
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Ranjeet Kumar Mishra
Student (MBA), India
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Use Values to Motivate Behavior Change While motivation is an attempt to change a person's thinking or behavior, it means nothing if the person to which it is aimed has no interest in it. Human volition (will) can help, but is also a big challenge, when you apply it...
Values are what we have to understand, but a human tendency is to have multidirectional intentions for the outcome which changes according to the behaviourial changes seen...
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bishara dabit
Teacher, Israel
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Suffering, Motivation, Volition and Love to Sacrifice Suffering is the source of change, motivation is the ignition for change, strong volition and love to sacrifice for others is complementary to offset (compensate) the change.
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Javier Elenes
Business Consultant, Mexico
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Leadership and MOTIVACTION The leader's task is to inspire motivaction in the followers (motives to action), pulling (vs the manager pushing way) the people to a the mission because the followers perceive that the leader "wants my well being", "looks like he (the leader) he is able / capable", and what he says (the mission) is worth / valuable challenge to pursue (because it allows me to grow).
Developing values to support the mission is needed too (i.e. if the competitive strategy is based on being different and better than the competitors on service, the value of punctuality shall be embedded in the organization culture through "predication by example" of the leader.
A final note: the leader's acid test is to build a team that wants, can, and achieves the above with behavior and skills /abilities.
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Erdohegyi Gabor , Hungary
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What Successful Motivators Should Know You can give advice only if the recipient wants to have it!
Only clear and strong (logical, emotional, financial, subsistence, career, efficiency, workload, etc.) consequences can force someone to make/accept changes.
Positive changes require attractive clear and realistic benefits as well as a list of actual and painful disadvantages presented on the contrary.
These benefits and disadvantages can be of a wide variety, but every and each of them must be 100 percent relevant, first of all, to the people involved. Successful motivators are aware of all these. The really difficult task is to find and work out in details all those 'pros and cons' that have perfect relevance and crucial/key role in a specific (change) situation and to the people concerned.
So, there is a mountain of work underlying professional motivation efforts, even if it seems very simple and natural when "sold" to the people.
"Selling" our advice (i.e. these consequences) is another art of the whole (change) management process.
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Johnny Michael Tan
Management Consultant, Malaysia
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'Twalk the Twalk' 1. Walk the talk: role modeling
2. Walk the walk: reach out / communicate / listen
3. Talk the walk: discuss & celebrate 'small wins' / inspire / motivate
4. Talk the talk: get 'mass' belief / sell / local -> regional -> global.
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Michael D. Moore
Entrepreneur, United States
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Self-Motivation I have read many theories on motivation and over a long career tried many techniques. In the end the only real and lasting motivation is "self-motivation."
Any externally imposed motivation is transitory and when the external motivation wanes it has little affect. A person may go along if pressured or coerced but do not confuse this with change.
For a person to really make a substantive change requires self-powered motivation.
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Shital
India
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The Best Option The need for change arises when someone feels there isn't any better option to get things according their set behaviour patterns. The thing is people don't change when you just tell them a better opti...
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Eddy Tukamushaba, Uganda
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Personality Types and Behaviour I have of recent been interested in the Being theory in destination branding research and along the way, I know that human beings have two primary motivations:
- Survival
- Finding meaning and happi...
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Eric Buining
Consultant, Netherlands
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4 Dimensions of Change Actually, change involves 4 dimensions (Eliyahu M. Goldratt):
1a) Advantage of the change (pot of gold)
1b) Disadvantage of the change (crutches)
2a) Advantage of NOT changing (mermaid)
2b) Disadv...
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DD Chhaya
Coach, India
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Changing Behavior and TPB This theory appears to be the basis of the twin books by Thomas R. Krause entitled 'The Behavior-Based Safety Process: Managing Involvement for an Injury-Free Culture' and 'Employee-Driven Systems for...
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elwathig Mohammed Mahmoud
Sudan
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Motivation If you want to motivate people there are many ways to achieve this like giving money, appreciating... The question is which method is the best? Which one is more effective?...
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MOHAMMAD FARIS
Turnaround Manager, Malaysia
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Changing our Behaviour is Good It is good to change our behaviour
It is great if we change and succeed
It is not a disaster if we try to change and fail
At least we tried rather than keep on waiting and doing nothing....
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Alexander N. Raikov
Director, Russian Federation
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Direct and Inverse Problem Showing the patient the path to success – is an ill-posed (inverse) problem. It’s difficult to find the solution of an inverse problem.
In this case there can be many decisions and paths. You must sh...
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Andrea Kelly, Jamaica
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Inspiration I think that inspiration can change the philosophy of an individual as worldviews are embedded and are part of a person's character. Light has to come for a person to see that the current situation ne...
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Can Stiphout, Netherlands
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Motivation "Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly" - Stephen R. Covey....
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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
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Motivation @Can Stiphout. That 'fire from within' of Covey would only be ignited in the subject, when the 'tutor' him/herself creates the environment - of justice, fair play / fair pay and reward, and this equat...
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Eric Buining
Consultant, Netherlands
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3 Motivational Factors for Cognitive Workers Studies have shown that cognitive workers mainly have the following three motivational factors:
- Autonomy
- Mastery
- Purpose
Cognitive workers have a need for autonomy in which they can master t...
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Dilip Khanal
CEO, Nepal
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Behavior = Tip of the Iceberg... Behavior could be just the tip of an iceberg. Beneath could be layers of beliefs, religion, upbringing, peers and many more. An attempt for behavior change should be supported by in-depth understandin...
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Michael D. Moore
Entrepreneur, United States
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Tip of the Iceberg I think Dilip is right on point. People are complicated and made up of many layers. We need to peel back the onion skin through trust and relationship building in order to understand how to help and m...
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Seeburuth, Mauritius
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Environment is also a (Positive) Change Motivator One factor that drives change is the environment you are living in.
For example, many professionals immigrate to Canada. But they cannot practice in their field since they have to upgrade to the Cana...
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Michael D. Moore
Entrepreneur, United States
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Environment as Change Motivator @Seeburuth's comment, a change of the magnitude of uprooting yourself and moving to Canada is a major life event. What is it about the "Canadian environment" that was strong enough to compel this chan...
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prakash kumar gautam
Management Consultant, Nepal
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Change Motivator Motivation is the result of needs, the degree of his belief to get the needs fulfilled, and obviously the environment.
Needs are the primary stimulus. A person, if he believes that those needs will ...
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Arif ur Rehman
Professor, Pakistan
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Success and Motivation It is the conscious will to succeed that leads to success; the pulse, the heart, the intelligence and the soul then throb in unison and this propelled with urgency ‘creates’ the way to success. This i...
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thirunavukkarasu
Manager, India
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Please Explain the 4 Dimensions of Change @Eric Buining: Very interesting, could you give a little more explanation please?...
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Anonymous
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Overcoming Resistance to Change @Eric Buining : Overcoming resistance to change - isn't it obvious?
Check out this video:
This video explains the TOC - Theory of Constraints point of view....
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
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Motivators for Changing the Behavior of an Individual In order to strengthen the motivation for a major behavioral change at the individual level, influence experts Grenny c.s. recommend 4 powerful tactics:
1. Allow for choice. Use a "motivational inter...
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