Change Challenger Pam shares her change plan to get a promotion in 6 months. What is your change goal? To receive a promotion within 6 months What are your crucial moments? When new, stretch assignment becomes available When discussing business accomplishments When beginning assigned lead on project What are your vital behaviors? Willingly take on …
Change Challenger Carol Ann shares her change plan to improve her relationship with her son as he manages a chronic illness. What is your change goal? Facilitating a young adult’s transition to self managed care of a chronic medical condition. Specifically, by 5/1/11, our son will be engaged in a ongoing healthcare with an appropriate …
Dear Crucial Skills, I run a city initiative to clean up garbage in the spring. Do you have any advice for influencing residents to stop littering in the first place? Fighting Litter Dear Fighting, Thank you for your community service. We each need to do our part. After all, we are the community, and the …
Dear Crucial Skills, My sixteen-year-old daughter excels academically and plans to pursue a university education to become a physiotherapist. She is a very intelligent and sensible teenager and is admired by family, teachers, and friends. However, her teacher called me with concerns about her recent behavior, attitude, and work habits. Lately, she procrastinates homework assignments, …
Change Challenger Janet shares her change plan to be on time…once and for all. I was on time for my birth, but it has been a struggle ever since. When I am on time, I feel calm and really good. When I am not – which is far too often – I feel stressed and …
Change Challenger Eris Weaver shares her change plan and initial success using the Change Anything model. I’ve had great success with my change plan so far—even though the behavior I’m addressing is fairly entrenched. While I know a lot about behavior change, I have never applied this knowledge systematically to this particular problem. Sitting down …
Meet the Change Anything Challengers, three people with common challenges who are looking to make big changes in 2011. We met these changers when they shared their story with us in the Change Anything in 2011 Challenge. Each one has struggled for years to accomplish life goals, get the promotion they deserve, or feel healthy …
Dear Crucial Skills, It’s my job to influence the people in our company to improve quality—both of incoming raw material and of our outgoing products—and it’s hard. We’ve got all the “head” stuff right—technical expertise and good quality tools—but we don’t have the heart. And to make it even more difficult, the people I need …
Dear Crucial Skills, Help! I am the wife of a hoarder. My husband buys and keeps everything. He has a hobby room, garage, and a rented storage unit full of stuff, including twenty-year-old key chains from vendor booths, console TVs from the 1970s, empty boxes, old magazines, plastic silverware, and anything others don’t want or …
ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Maxfield is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything. READ MORE Dear Crucial Skills, After working as chair of a small committee in my department for more than a year, my boss told me I must step down because the committee finds my …
