There aren’t any.
In the world of road safety they use the concept of the Three Es to emphasize the blended approach often required to truly change behaviour: engineering, education, and enforcement.
You first need to establish the conditions for the outcomes you’re wishing to achieve by engineering it.
You then need to educate your audiences about these new conditions, why they were chosen, how they are implemented, how to interact or navigate them, etc (education itself a blend of tactics that includes broad promotion and individualized engagement or outreach).
Now you can enforce the new standard.
If you engineer it without educating, no one will know or understand what you’re doing or how to use it – it’ll probably make things worse. If you engineer and don’t enforce folks will gravitate to what’s easiest (often the existing behvaiour). Enforcement with no education is what breeds toxic environments. And educating without egineering or enforcement makes you the self-help ailse at your local book store.
You can’t do one without the other and expect behaviour change.
Engineer it. Educate your people. Enforce the new reality.
There’s no magic bullet.
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