Title: Six Ways to Help People Change | Greater Good
Headings: Six Ways to Help People Change
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Six Ways to Help People Change
If you want to help someone reach their goals, follow these steps.
1. Lead by example
2. Suggest goals
3. Give the right feedback
4. Support good habits
5. Take advantage of laziness
6. Develop support networks
About the Author
Art Markman
We believe happiness should be free.

Content: The core of trust in persuasive interactions is authenticity—the degree to which people think that the public face you have adopted fits who you really are inside. When people feel you are telling them things you truly believe, they are less likely to be skeptical of their interactions with you. Thus you have to see yourself as others see you. What do people perceive your motivations to be? Behavior change is hard enough to accomplish when people are willing to engage in the process. When they have reason to shy away from it because they are concerned about your motives, then you have made things even more challenging for yourself. Advertisement X
While any one of the suggestions provided below for helping others change will work to some degree on its own, combining them is even more effective. 1. Lead by example
This essay is adapted from Smart Change: Five Tools to Create New and Sustainable Habits in Yourself and Others (TarcherPerigee, 2014).