Here are some books to help you make behavior change more actionable
Keep some of these close to you - and remember that the value in learning to design behavior change is in learning how to think about it, and how to adapt it to your context - and not in copying blindly some "proven" strategies.
1) Engaged by Amy Bucher This is a great actionable, go-to book, talks about using Self Determination theory as well as the COM-B model. If you go to Amy's website you can find some great resources
Amy has been doing some amazing work in behavior change for a while - and is with Lirio where they are combining behavioral science and AI (way before chatgpt)
2) Designing for Behavior Change by Stephen Wendel He uses his DECIDE framework:
-Define the problem. -Explore the context. -Craft the intervention. -Implement within the product. -Determine its impact. -Evaluate next steps
Stephen has been sharing some great work on behavioral systems with SystemaFutura
3) The Behavior Change Wheel by Susan Michie and Robert West shows the COM-B model, Behavior Change Wheel - at this point what I would call a classic and must have book.
4) Design for How People Think by John Whalen, PhD looks at a model of 6 minds, more geared towards product and service design.
-Language -Wafinding -Vision/Attention -Memory -Emotion -Decision Making
John has been working recently on how AI can help with research
As you already might know - theories and model in behavior can't live on their own - we need to be able to mix methodologies, so here are two other books to use.
5) The Design Thinking Playbook by Michael Lewrick, Ph.D, MBA Michael has written many design thinking books - I own a few others of his - always nicely illustrated with good examples.
6) This is Service Design Doing by Marc Stickdorn, Adam StJohn Lawrence and friends.
Mark and Adam also run the well know - This Is Service Design Doing School where you learn to apply Service Design Thinking in the real world
Remember books are a great way to get ideas - and a resource to go back to when needed - that's how I use them.
What books are your go to at work?