Sean GlazeWorkplace Culture Speaker | Facilitator, Great Results Team Building · Leadership lessons from the locker room that change how your people work together.

HOW DO YOU CHANGE BEHAVIORS OF PEOPLE ON YOUR TEAM

17 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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In this short talk, the speaker explains that individual behaviors— which collectively form an organization’s culture—are rooted in personal beliefs. Those beliefs arise from a person’s awareness, which is shaped by past experiences. Because team members have diverse experiences, they develop different beliefs and thus exhibit varied behaviors. To truly change culture, leaders must go beyond merely addressing observable behaviors; they need to provide new experiences that reshape awareness, shift underlying beliefs, and consequently produce better behaviors. The speaker frames experiences as stories or activities that can re‑engineer the belief‑behavior loop, offering a pathway for cultural transformation.

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When you begin to ask yourself, "Man, why did Bob do that?" Well, their behavior that contributes to your culture is always a result of their belief. So if you only address the behavior, you're not going to have a whole lot of changed behavior. When you realize that that behavior is a result of their belief, and their beliefs are a result of their awareness, and our awareness is what we notice in the experiences we've had, well then when you look at your team, you realize that people have had very different experiences.. And in those experiences, they've come away with different things that they've noticed that have helped to shape their beliefs, which then shape their behaviors, which then become your culture. So if you want to change culture, the thing you need to focus on is, yeah, absolutely behaviors, but some of that is giving your people different experiences. And experiences are stories or activities that help to reshape their awareness, to shift their beliefs into something that becomes better behaviors.