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Why Do People Change?
- People tend to change when they have participated in the decision to change.
- People tend to change when the rewards for change exceed the pain of change.
- People tend to change when they see others changingt, particularly when the
change direction is supported by valued persons.
- People tend to change more readily when they have the competencies, knowledge
and skills required by the change.
- People tend to change more readily in an environment free from threat and judgement.
- People tend to change to the degree that they trust the motives of the persons trying to
induce the change.
- People tend to change more readily if they are able to influence reciprocally the
person or persons attempting to influence them.
- People tend to change to the degree that they see the change has been successful,
especially if they are able to gather data for themselves.
- People tend to change either in a series of small steps or as a total change in
their way of life.
- People tend to maintain change as the change is supported by their environment.
- People tend to maintain change if there is public commitment to the change.
- People tend to resist change to the degree that they fee it is being imposed upon them.
Based on research done at the National Training Laboratories, Bethel, Maine
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