Attitude Precedes Behaviour

A person's outlook or perspective will affect that person's behaviour.

I believe that in my gut.

If you're trying to get Johnny to clean up his room every day, or Beluga to submit her expense reports on time, then just saying the words won't do the trick. You've got to get underneath the matter.

People have too many well-embedded habits and attitudes, operating totally outside the reach of conscious awareness, to just flick a switch and implement a change of any significance.

There are many approaches a leader or educator can take to penetrate the stuff that precedes behaviour. Basically the approaches establish some kind of genuinely appealing context.

Unless you're using electric prods or something; but then that approach sort of dehumanizes things.