Anyone who knows me knows I love BJ Fogg’s behavior models. He is a design psychologist who runs a persuation lab out at Stanford. His latest behavior change model is based on his research about lasting change which basically falls down to: making things easy to do and changing the environment.
His latest little flip book sums up his findings to date.
Lots of lessons for us in healthcare and these are my take aways:
*we tend to love dramatic change initiatives: secret: they usually dont work
*Starter steps or baby steps arent glamorous and flashy but they work
*We clearly need to reward change and not the flashing marketing campaigns when it comes to safety (how many hours have you spent on catchy acronyms….did it make a difference??)
*BJ desribes certain things to look for that can warn you that you are designing for epiphany instead of change secret: hoping staff epiphanies will lead to behavior change doesnt usually work
If you care about patient safety AT ALL please read BJ’s latest little flipbook.. I have never read so much great info in one place
http://bjfogg.org/lastingchange/
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