Pyramid of Results, Motivation and Ability

Braden Kelley is an innovation and change specialist, the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire, an InnovationExcellence.com co-Founder, and is the creator of the Change Planning Toolkit™ and a book on the best practices and next practices of organizational change (January 2016 release).

  Change Management   Organizational Project Management   Resource Management   Talent Management  

When engaging in a change effort, it is important to focus not on outputs but on outcomes. The difference is sometimes subtle for people, but the biggest difference is that outputs are usually activity-based, where outcomes are behavior-based.

There are several good behavior modification frameworks out there, including the Six Boxes framework from Carl Binder, the Six Sources of Influence framework from VitalSmarts and the Results Pyramid from Partners in Leadership that start with the desired performance changes, results or outcome shifts and work backward.

                                                         Six Boxes Approach – Carl Binder

Potential Benefits of Using the Six Sources of Influence
The Six Sources of Influence framework from VitalSmarts, a framework designed for personal change, has some usefulness as we look at organizational change. Here are some of my thoughts on how this personal change framework is relevant, centered on the fact that successful change happens one individual at a time. The Six Sources of Influence framework looks at motivation and ability on one axis, and how they are …

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