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
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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). If you want other people to change, start with yourself and make sure the things you want them to change about themselves are things you do effectively yourself. “ Do as I say and not as I do” is not a formula for success. But that’s only the first step. It is important to engage visibly in the goals that you want them to adopt. When you lead by example, your actions will serve as a source of goal contagion for other people in your environment.