Any organisational transformation, whether it is implementing systems, redesigning processes, driving cultural change or restructuring businesses, is ultimately about changing behaviour.
But sustaining this change is highly challenging.
As traditional change approaches rely on training and communication, they do not always adapt behaviour sustainably, because they overlook the drivers of behaviour. Before starting a transformation journey, we need to truly understand behaviour by thinking and talking about it. In other words, we need to put behaviour first.
Behaviour First is Deloitte’s behavioural change solution for organisations. Our proven and practical toolkit, specialist practitioners, and global network of academic relationships allow us to apply the best of behavioural science, resulting in improved business outcomes. To sustainably change organizational behaviour, we apply a three-step approach to help our clients’ employees increase their efficiency and smoothly adapt to all organisational changes.
Identify
Identify and prioritise behaviours that need to change
Understand
Understand the drivers of behaviour
Change
Design interventions to change behaviour
The key concepts of heuristics and biases and their essential role in behavioural interventions are key to our approach to understanding and changing behaviour.
The FIRST Framework establishes the key drivers of behaviour in an organisation and identifies which to use in behavioural interventions. These drivers are classified into five main categories that represent the FIRST Framework: Fundamentals, Incentives, Relationships, Stories, and Tools. Each category is supported by tried-and-true behavioural science theories and best practices.