Coaching practices for Environment Design for Behavior Change in a New Job

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• I’m right in the middle of a big upheaval
• I genuinely want to do the thing, but my whole space fights me on it
• I keep sliding back toward whatever the people around me do, and right now nobody in my circle does the thing I’m trying to build
• I’ll fully intend to do something and then just forget it exists until the day’s over
• I’m about to join a whole new group of people who have no idea who I’ve been

Practices that may help

1. Environment Design for Behavior Change
   Environment design uses the well-documented finding that behavior tracks context more than intention: placing healthy options visibly, removing cues for unwanted behaviors, and reducing friction for good ones changes what people do without relying on willpower. The evidence for context effects on behavior is strong; specific design prescriptions vary in how well they have been tested.
2. Use a life transition to break old environment-behavior links
   Major context changes (a move, a new job) create a rare window where old habits are disrupted and new ones are easier to form.
   Environment Design for Behavior Change
3. Engineer your physical environment to create opportunity
   Rearrange space, tools, and access so the desired behavior is the path of least resistance.
   The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel
4. Engineer your social environment to support the behaviors you want
   The people around you are the most powerful environmental determinant of behavior — choose and structure social exposure intentionally.
   Environment Design for Behavior Change
5. Make cues for healthy behaviors obvious and visible
   Put the cue for the behavior you want in your direct field of view at the moment you need to act.
   Environment Design for Behavior Change
6. Use social transitions to change the norms around your behavior
   When your social group changes, use the transition to adopt the behavioral norms of the new group rather than carrying old ones.
   The Habit Discontinuity Effect
7. Install target behaviors in the new context from day one
   Begin the desired habit in the new environment before the new context develops its own competing cues.
   The Habit Discontinuity Effect
8. Use environmental context change to weaken existing conditioned habits
   Change your environment to disrupt the conditioned cues that maintain an unwanted habit.
   Classical Conditioning and Habit Triggers
9. Audit your physical environment for accidental choice architecture
   Map what your current environment is nudging you toward — then redesign it on purpose.
   Choice Architecture, Made Practical
10. Change the default option in your environment to the healthy choice
    Restructure defaults so the healthy behavior happens unless you actively opt out.
    Environment Design for Behavior Change

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