Our instinct is to resist change when we feel it’s being forced on us. This behavioral scientist offers 3 strategies to win over reluctant employeees.
If you’ve never worked out in your life and set a New Year’s resolution to exercise every day at 5 a.m, you might make it to mid-January. It takes time to build better habit. It’s incredibly easy to fail, even when we’re motivated to keep going. So why do we have such higher standards when it comes to someone else changing their behavior, especially in the workplace? When a superior requests or directs us to switch up an established way of working, who among us wouldn’t struggle to adopt the new routine? Behavioral science can help.