There's a difference in Change Kids vs Adults

Discussion

Influence Strategy

This week discussion was based on the 6 sources of Influence, in the videos watched this week I’ve learned a little bit more about influences. Based on both videos watched I’ve learned there’s a huge difference when getting kids to change and when getting adults to start making change.

In the first video All Washed up the kids were so distracted once the cupcakes were brought in majority of them didn’t follow directions. Now the instructor gave very detailed instructions, but the kids only saw and heard what they wanted because now the cupcakes had their attention.

The children ranged in different age groups but where old enough to know that after putting the puzzle together to use sanitizer before getting a cupcake.

The key to change is using all 6 sources of influences but only 4 was used in “All Washed Up”

Those 4 influences included Personal Motivation, Change environment, Deliberate Practice and Peer Pressure (Social Influence). After thinking back to when I was once a child my mind was never just set on one thing, I had this to do and that to do and my attention span was very short. I remember having to be told over and over to do something just like the children in the video.

The reason only 4 of the 6 Influences were used in my opinion is because children have short attention spans. Just to even get them to get quiet in a classroom setting can be difficult. But when you give personal motivation to something related to the topic at hand or changing the environment for the child something that more exciting than what their used to, practicing the new change more than once and of course letting other students who have a positive look on change influence the other children you could and would get better results just by connecting with the student on a different level. Towards the end of the video a sign was put up about using the sanitizer and just by one student reading the sign and used the sanitizer the other children followed suit.

Change doesn’t happen over night but continue to work on it will get you one step closer to changing it takes time.

Resources

https://youtu.be/osUwukXSd0k