Dissecting Personal Change: Using the ADKAR Change Method in Forming New Habits

At this time of year, commitment to forming habits runs high as we look to build strengths that will bring out the best in us.  Yet many of our commitments fall victim to distraction or land in the ‘too-hard’ basket in a few months’ time.

     But what about those practices that stick?! 

While it’s common to look for root causes of failure, what if we took apart behaviour change that was a success?

     What are the steps we took to make changes that became part of our lives?

In this morning get-together over coffee we’ll look at the things we’ve done to create positive changes in our lives by looking at personal change through an ADKAR lens.

Developed by Jeff Hiatt, Founder of Prosci, the ADKAR method is a commonly used to help individuals, teams and organisations transition from one way of working to another.

Questions we can consider when looking at our own positive habit forming successes might be:

• What was it that raised our AWARENESS that a change was needed?
• What did it take to motivate us to DESIRE this change in our lives more than continuing as we were?
• What information and KNOWLEDGE did we look for and acquire to make the change work?
• How did we ensure we had the ABILITY to put the change into practice in a variety of settings?
• How did we reward and REINFORCE the progress we were making along the way?

As with all our Culture First events, you can offer your own example or hitch a ride on the ideas of others. No pressure. And in keeping with our ethos to try new things, we’ll be trying this discussion approach out for the first time so we hope you will come along with an open mind.

We look forward to seeing you there!