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Behavioural Diagnosis Canvas — Interactive
You want to work the canvas through on screen and get a prioritised set of next steps, a Word document and an Obsidian note out of the other end
Work through the Behavioural Diagnosis Canvas on screen. When you generate the diagnosis it reads your COM-B scores, names your primary barrier, and tells you which kinds of intervention can actually work against it — then gives you an ordered set of next steps into the rest of the toolkit.
Everything stays in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, and your answers are saved to this device as you type.
1 · The change, in one sentence
2 · What does success actually look like?
Not the milestone. What is observably different on an ordinary Tuesday? Six months from now, if this has worked, someone walking the floor would see:
3 · Who has to do something differently?
Include leaders as a group. They almost always have to change too, and it is almost always left off this table.
| Group | Roughly how many | What they do now | What they must do instead | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
4 · The vital few behaviours
Maximum five. Ruthlessly. Each must pass the film test: could you film someone doing it and know whether they did it?
| Behaviour | Who | When / trigger | Currently happening? |
|---|---|---|---|
5 · COM-B barrier scan
For your top behaviour. Score each 1 (total blocker) to 5 (no issue). The lowest score is your primary barrier and drives everything below — see COM-B and the Behaviour Change Wheel.
| Component | Score | Evidence — how do I actually know? |
|---|---|---|
| Physical Capability | ||
| Psychological Capability | ||
| Physical Opportunity | ||
| Social Opportunity | ||
| Reflective Motivation | ||
| Automatic Motivation |
The evidence column is the point. If your evidence is “we assume” or “the steering group thinks”, you have an opinion, not a diagnosis — and the generated plan will tell you so.
6 · Bright spots
Where is this behaviour already happening, even partially? Who, and what is different about their situation?
7 · What is genuinely in it for them?
8 · The honest risks
| Risk | Likelihood | Impact | What I would do |
|---|---|---|---|
9 · What I do not know yet
Bring this section to your sponsor. Naming your uncertainties builds far more credibility than a confident plan built on assumptions.
Take it with you
The Markdown export uses [[wiki links]], so it drops straight into the Obsidian vault alongside the other notes.
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